Cooking Class Near the Colosseum in Rome: Where We Are and How to Plan Your Day

Looking for a cooking class near the Colosseum? Here's the short answer: Piazza Margana 22, in the historic centre of Rome, between Piazza Venezia and the Jewish Ghetto. Our kitchen is 2 minutes' walk from Piazza Venezia and the Altare della Patria, 5 from the Colosseum, 10 from Campo de' Fiori and the Pantheon.

That means the class can sit inside a sightseeing day instead of competing with it. Below you'll find where the kitchen is, when we're open, how long each class lasts, how to fit one before or after the big monuments, and where the market tour starts, because that one doesn't begin in the kitchen.

At Piazza Margana 22, 00186 Roma. Piazza Margana is a small square in the historic centre, between Piazza Venezia and the Jewish Ghetto: a few steps from the traffic around the Altare della Patria, but out of it.

Save the full address in your maps app rather than a generic "near Piazza Venezia". The contact page has the address with a map link, plus phone, email and WhatsApp if you need to reach us on the way.

Walking times from the kitchen:

• Piazza Venezia and the Altare della Patria: 2 minutes.
• The Colosseum: 5 minutes.
• Campo de' Fiori: 10 minutes.
• The Pantheon: 10 minutes.

Everything on this list is on foot, so there's no transport to plan between a monument and the class. The Colosseum lies on one side of the kitchen, the Pantheon and Campo de' Fiori on the other: the class works as the hinge of a walking day, with ancient Rome in one direction and the squares of the centre in the other.

We're open every day, from 9:00 to 20:00. The start times of each class are in its booking calendar: pick the date, look at the times, then build the rest of the day around them. Opening hours and class times are two different things: the kitchen is open from 9:00 to 20:00, while each class starts at the time shown in its calendar and lasts as long as its menu needs.

Every class on our cooking classes page also exists as a private class, with the kitchen reserved for your group.

The length follows the menu, and it's the number to check before you plan anything else:

• Gelato Making Class: 90 minutes, pistachio and hazelnut gelato.
• Pizza Making & Gelato: two and a half hours, pizza margherita and then pistachio and hazelnut gelato.
• Roman Pasta Making Class: two and a half hours, fresh egg pasta with carbonara, cacio e pepe and amatriciana.
• Spaghetti & Aperol Spritz: two and a half hours, spaghetti alla Nerano and spaghetti and meatballs, with Aperol Spritz; 18 and over only.
• Pasta Making & Tiramisù: three hours, tonnarelli, ricotta and spinach ravioli, amatriciana and tiramisù.
• Market Tour & Cooking Class: four hours, market visit included, then a three-course menu.

Wines are included in every one of them, and each class page lists everything else that's included.

Either works: the walk between the two is 5 minutes. What decides it is the length of the class and whatever else is on your list that day.

The 90-minute gelato class slots in between the Colosseum and the Pantheon without taking over the day. The two-and-a-half-hour classes, pizza, carbonara or spaghetti, sit well next to one big visit. The three-hour pasta and tiramisù class deserves a day where it's the main event, with the Colosseum before or after and nothing else pressing.

Fix the class first, then plan the visits around it. The class has a set start time; the walk from the Colosseum is always the same 5 minutes. For the four-hour market tour, keep the Colosseum for another day or for afterwards: the tour meets at Campo de' Fiori, 10 minutes from the kitchen on the other side.

Both are 10 minutes from the kitchen on foot, on the side of the centre facing away from the Colosseum. That makes an easy pairing: the Pantheon before the class and Campo de' Fiori after, or the other way round, with no transport in between.

If Campo de' Fiori is on your list anyway, look at the class that starts right there. On market-tour days, the square is part of the class itself: that's where the tour meets.

At the Campo de' Fiori market, not in the kitchen. The Market Tour & Cooking Class begins among the stalls, where you choose the seasonal ingredients for the day with the chef. Once the shopping is done you walk together to Piazza Margana, 10 minutes away, and cook a three-course menu with what you bought, including fresh egg pasta made from scratch. Wines are included, and the whole experience, market and cooking, lasts about four hours. For more on the city's markets, see our guide to Rome's food markets.

For this class the meeting point is the Campo de' Fiori market, not our kitchen: heading to Piazza Margana first means walking the route twice. The same experience also exists as a private market tour and cooking class: market visit, fresh pasta from scratch and wines as in the shared one, with a menu tailored to your group and flexible pacing, about four hours.

Three things, and they take a minute.

Language. Shared classes are taught in English. Private classes can also be taught in Italian or Spanish.

Food. Tell us about any food allergies or dietary needs when you book, so we can prepare suitable ingredients. If someone in your party has coeliac disease, the answer is one of our dedicated gluten-free classes, which are private: a class with gluten is never made gluten-free, not even for a single portion. For vegetarians, our guide to the vegetarian cooking class in Rome goes through every menu.

Meeting point. For every class it's our address, Piazza Margana 22. Only the tours start elsewhere: the market tour at the Campo de' Fiori market, the Trastevere food tour in Piazza Mastai.

Are you open at weekends? Yes. The kitchen is open every day, from 9:00 to 20:00, Saturdays and Sundays included.

Can we bring children? Tell us their ages when you book. For a session just for your family, there's the private family class: a room reserved for you, all ages cooking at the same table, one menu picked at booking from our real classes, with fresh pasta, pizza or gelato made by hand. It lasts three hours, and wine is poured for the adults only.

Is there a gluten-free class near the Colosseum? Yes, two, both private: gluten-free pasta and tiramisù, three hours, and gluten-free pizza and gelato, two and a half hours. A class with gluten is never made gluten-free, so these are the classes to book for a coeliac guest. In the group formats (families, kids, schools, universities, team building, companies and large groups), the whole group can choose one of the two gluten-free menus; for the largest groups it isn't guaranteed and is arranged with the staff.

How do we reach you on the day? Phone, email and WhatsApp are on the contact page, together with the address and a map link.

Match the class to the hours you have. Ninety minutes between two visits: gelato. Half a day, with Campo de' Fiori on the list: the market tour. A day built around one meal: pasta and tiramisù, or the Roman pasta class if carbonara is the reason you came.

All the classes, with menus and durations written out, are on the cooking classes page. For anything the booking calendar doesn't answer, write to us from the contact page.