New: week-long to multi-month cooking courses in Italy, prices read from school sites

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Cookweeks

Italy first · 54 schools · 88 courses of a week or longer

Cooking schools in Italy, pinned on the map

Cooking schools in Italy for people who want to stay a week, a month or a season. Pick how long and what you want to cook, then tap a region: the list shows every course there with the school’s own price.

Prices checked

15 regions · prices read from each school’s website · no school pays to be listed

Or start from how long you can stay

Four kinds of trip, each with its own page of courses, prices and what to check.

Grape vines and cypress trees in the Tuscan hills
5 to 13 days

A cooking week

You want one week where cooking is the point of the trip.

from €350 · median €2,700 · 54 courses

Ponte Vecchio over the Arno river in Florence
14 to 31 days

Two to four weeks

You can stay a while and want to cook every day.

from €580 · median €2,250 · 23 courses

Fresh egg pasta on a floured board
5 weeks to a year

A month or longer

A sabbatical, a gap year or a season living in Italy.

from €5,000 · median €12,500 · 11 courses

A Neapolitan pizza Margherita with tomato, mozzarella and basil
1 week to several months

A career course

You want to make pizza, gelato or pastry, or cook, for a living.

from €500 · median €3,804 · 33 courses

What to check before you book

The details that make two courses at the same price very different. Every course card shows them where the school publishes them.

A cooking week

  • Price per day, not per trip: a 6-night and a 4-night week are not the same deal.
  • Single room: travelling alone often costs a few hundred more.
  • Count the hands-on classes, the dinners and the excursions that are included.
  • Airport transfers: country schools can be an hour or more from the airport.

Two to four weeks

  • Whether lodging and meals are in the price, or tuition only.
  • Teaching hours per week: intensive courses run 25 to 40.
  • Start dates: many courses run on fixed dates a few times a year.
  • Italian lessons: some schools sell language and cooking together.

A month or longer

  • The 90-day Schengen limit: longer stays need a study visa, applied for before you travel.
  • Whether a restaurant internship follows the classes, and if it is paid.
  • The total: tuition plus lodging, food and travel for the whole stay.
  • What the certificate says at the end, and who issues it.

A career course

  • Hours of practice, not days: compare total hands-on hours.
  • What the certificate says, and who issues it.
  • Whether the price includes Italian VAT (22%).
  • Teaching language: some courses are in Italian with English on set dates.
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Compare here

Every course has the same fields: price and what it is per, length, hands-on hours, group size, language, lodging, meals and wine. Blank means the school does not say.

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Book with the school

Each card links to the school’s own page. We do not take bookings or payments, and no school pays to be listed.

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Not sure which fits?

Send us your dates and budget from any course page. We reply by email with courses that fit and can ask the schools for you.

Photos: Ian McKellar, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Jebulon, CC0 · Angelo DeSantis, CC BY 2.0 · Mario56, CC BY-SA 3.0

Map: Natural Earth (public domain). How we read and date prices: how we check · Typical costs: what a cooking course in Italy costs

Questions about cooking schools in Italy

How much does a cooking school in Italy cost?

In Italy, the first country we cover, published prices for a cooking week run from €350 to €8,499 per person, two to four weeks from €580, longer than a month from €5,000, and career courses from €500. Every figure comes from a school website and is dated.

Do you list short cooking classes?

No. Cookweeks lists courses of about a week (5 days or 4 nights) or longer, because that is where comparing price, lodging and hours makes a real difference. For a single class on your trip, booking sites and the schools themselves list plenty.

Can I learn to cook in Italy for a month or longer?

Yes. Culinary schools run intensive courses of two to four weeks or more for international students, some with lodging and a restaurant internship. Stays over 90 days in the Schengen area need a study visa if you are not an EU citizen. See the long-stay page for prices and what is included.

Do I book through Cookweeks?

No. Each course links to the school’s own page and you book with the school. For courses of a week or longer you can also send us your dates and budget; we reply by email with courses that fit and can ask the schools for you.

What is Cookweeks?

An independent comparison of cooking schools in Italy with courses that last a week or longer. We list 54 schools and 88 courses in Italy with the price, length, group size and what is included, copied from each school’s own page with the date we read it. No school pays to be listed.

Which countries will you cover next?

Italy is first. Thailand (Chiang Mai and Bangkok) is next, then France, Japan, Spain and Mexico. Country pages appear only once we have checked school prices there.