Matera: traditional bread making experience

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What You’ll Experience
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Duration
2 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 8 guests
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Language
Italian
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Immerse in Matera's culinary history at a centuries-old bakery. Learn bread-making secrets, stamp your loaf, and savor local traditions with this hands-on experience for two or more people.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

The ingredients are a synthesis of the basic elements peculiar to the Matera area: water and grains. The shape of the bread recalls a small mountain relief, characteristic of the Murgia Materana landscape. An educational workshop on bread processing tecniques in a four generation traditional bakery to discover a true gastronomic excellence and a traditional symbol of the city; to learn the most important bread processing secrets of a four generation bakery; to get hands in dough, do your own loaf. Such as until 1950, families in Matera, you will brand the pasta to be baked with a wooden stamp, to recognise it, and take home, after creating and baking. You will savour history and traditional abilities, discovering our local delicacies. The culture of bread is linked to the wisdom of local farmers in producing, selecting, stocking and preserving certain varieties of durum wheat, intact, over time.

Number of participants, min 2 people.

What You Get

Bottled water
Baking class
Brunch
Focaccia, taralli, 'cruschi peppers', cheese, salami, 'pettoline, glass of wine
Translation on request, at an add cost

Good To Know

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for people with food intolerances
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Wheelchair accessible

What You’ll Experience

An educational workshop on bread processing tecniques in a four generation traditional bakery. The culture of bread is linked to the wisdom of local farmers in producing, selecting, stocking and preserving certain varieties of durum wheat, intact, over time. The activity is an opportunity to taste excellent local wine and some delicacies of our land. It takes place inside a traditional bakery, still active in the area, where you will appreciate the art, secrets and recipes of bread-making. During the educational workshop you will make bread shapes and have the chance to get literally your hands in the dough, supported through the hands-on experience by a four generation local baker. He will tell you about the origins of the raw materials used and goes on with the visit to the laboratory. He will share the history of the city, by making a typical loaf of bread. Such as until 1950, families in Matera, you will brand the pasta to be baked with a wooden stampm and take home, when you finish baking. At the end of the workshop, you will taste typical food products and enjoy, with other guests, a toast of local wine. This training is an authentic, unique, genuine and immersive experience.

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Meeting Point

Via Nazionale 52, Via Nazionale, Matera Provincia di Matera Basilicata, Italy, IT, 75100

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'Forno di Gennaro' is a historical four generation bakery, located in Matera, Nazionale Street, at number 52, the main road connecting Matera to neighbouring Puglia.
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This experience ends at the meeting point.

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All bookings are final. Once the host confirms the experience, cancellations by the guest will incur a 100% charge.

from  $114.54 
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Please note that the time is in Central European Time.
All bookings are final. Cancellations by the guest will incur a 100% charge.
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Earliest available date: June 4, 2025
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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals
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