New: week-long to multi-month cooking courses in Italy, prices read from school sites
Find a courseLong stay · Italy · 14 courses from 11 schools
To learn to cook in Italy for a month, you have three realistic options: a 3- to 4-week intensive at a culinary school, a month at a cooking school that includes lodging, or a language school in a city like Florence with cooking lessons added each week. The courses below run between three and six weeks; most publish a price.
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Cheapest published price first; courses without a published price come last.
Includes 80 group lessons, 8 cooking classes (4h), didactic material, social activities. Accommodation separate.
School page: “€1,330.00”
Cultura Italiana Bologna · Bologna
Price table 'Italian language course + 2 cooking lessons for week': 1 week EUR 530, 2 weeks EUR 1000, 3 weeks EUR 1471, 4 weeks EUR 1941 (page renders the numbers next to template code, so quote is the number only). Extra cooking lessons EUR 68 each, max 3 per week. You taste what you cook at the end of each lesson. hands_on_hours computed from 2 x 3 h x 4 weeks.
School page: “1941”
APN Pizzaiuoli School (Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani) · Naples
160 hours: 120 h laboratory + 20 h theory + 20 h placement in a partner pizzeria. Monday-Friday 10:00-18:00. VAT (IVA) not included. Instalments up to 12 possible subject to financing approval. Includes handouts, kit (apron, t-shirt, hat, backpack), final certificate "Pizzaiuolo Base - 160h". 2026/27 dates: 21 Sep-16 Oct 2026, 2-27 Nov 2026, 18 Jan-12 Feb 2027, 1-26 Mar 2027, 19 Apr-14 May 2027, 31 May-25 Jun 2027, 5-30 Jul 2027. Page in Italian.
School page: “€1950 + IVA”
Price depends on module and internship; range EUR 2,000-10,000. Courses from one month to one year. Chef lessons 9:30-14:30, pastry lessons 15:00-20:00, three times a week. Payment 30/30/40 instalments.
School page: “Prices start from a minimum of €2,000 including VAT and go up to a maximum of €10,000 including VAT.”
Apicius International School of Hospitality · Florence
6 credits $ 6,050. 6-week sessions: 3 credits $5,150, 6 credits $6,550, 9 credits $8,050. Prices from the Study Abroad in Europe agency page, not apicius.it. Housing inclusion not stated on the page.
School page: “3 Credits - $ 4,250”
ICIF - Italian Culinary Institute for Foreigners · Costigliole d'Asti
Taught in Italian with English interpreter. 5,400 EUR for 4 weeks of lessons + 8 weeks internship; weekly modules 1,700 EUR. Internship accommodation and meals paid by student.
School page: “4.300€ for the first 3 weeks of lessons and 9 weeks of internship (optional)”
ICIF - Italian Culinary Institute for Foreigners · Costigliole d'Asti
Taught in Italian with English interpreter. 3 weeks of lessons plus 10 weeks optional internship. Single week modules EUR 1,700 (weeks 1 and 3) or EUR 1,800 (week 2).
School page: “Complete course: 4.500 €”
Italian-language editions (02.11.2026, 01.02.2027, 08.11.2027); paid English simultaneous translation available. Fee includes lunch and coffee breaks. Additional administrative fee for non-EU students. Deposit EUR 1,350.
School page: “The Professional Artisan Gelato Program has a fee of €4,510.00.”
ALMA - Scuola Internazionale di Cucina Italiana · Colorno (Parma)
Requires intermediate English; applicants over 40 asked for a motivational letter. Optional traineeship. Editions 24 November 2026 and 9 July 2027; '2027 Editions price is 5.500€'.
School page: “Official Price: € 5.300 (VAT included)”
ICIF - Italian Culinary Institute for Foreigners · Costigliole d'Asti
4 weeks of lessons plus 8 weeks optional internship (total 3 months). Includes guesthouse accommodation for 4 weeks and weekday meals.
School page: “Complete course: 5.950 €”
ALMA - Scuola Internazionale di Cucina Italiana · Colorno (Parma)
Requires high school diploma and intermediate English. Optional traineeship. Next edition 04 May 2027.
School page: “Official Price: € 6.250 (VAT and tool kit included)”
Price on request ('Please, contact the school to know the price and availability of the cooking experience'). Lasts 'a minimum of one and a maximum of four weeks'. Must book a single or double room with half board; cooking lessons three times a week from around 18:00 with the host. Language course priced separately; registration fee EUR 60. Group lessons max 10 students. Florence only.
Exclusively practical; 4 hours a week, 13:00-15:00 on 2 days a week; each lesson includes lunch with the teacher. Also 1 week EUR 110, 2 weeks EUR 220, 3 weeks EUR 330. Weekly start dates listed through September 2027. Teaching language not stated on the page.
School page: “4 weeks: €440.00”
Italian Culinary Institute · Stalettì, Calabria
'1 months - 150+ hours'. Covers cooking, pastry, baking, gelato, curing, cheesemaking, food and wine pairing. Course page lists 'Itinerary & price' link but individual course pages returned HTTP 429 (rate limited) on 2026-11-01; price not verified. Site says every ICI program includes accommodations, course materials, all meals, cultural excursions and airport transfers.
A month is short enough to stay without a visa if you hold a visa-exempt passport (up to 90 days in any 180), and long enough to cover pasta, sauces, meat, fish and desserts in depth. Budget for lodging if it is not included: a room in a shared flat in Florence or Bologna typically costs several hundred euros a month.
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Across 11 courses with a published per-person price, the range is €1,330 to €6,250, with a median of €4,300. The lowest is Italian Language & Cooking - 4 Weeks at Dante Alighieri Siena (DA Siena) (€1,330 per person, 4 weeks). Non-euro prices are converted at the ECB rate.
Tuition for the month-long courses with published prices is shown in the chart at the top of this page, with the cheapest and the dearest named. Add lodging, food and travel if they are not included.
Not if your passport is visa-exempt for Schengen and you stay no more than 90 days in any 180-day period. EU citizens need no visa at all. Other nationalities need a short-stay Schengen visa.