The project
Teach and learn Italy’s finest crafts.
ToBePolo started on Lake Garda to connect people who know a craft with people who want to learn it, in person or online.
What you can book
A craft- You learn it with your hands and take home something you made: bread, a vase, a sailor’s knot.
An experience- A visit, a story, a day alongside someone at work.
In person or online, on your own or in a group.
How it works
People who know a craft teach it; people who want to learn it book. ToBePolo takes care of everything else: the listing, the booking, the payment, the support.
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If you want to learn
With ToBePolo you learn a craft in an afternoon, in the workshop of someone who does it every day.
Choose a craft or an experience, then book and pay on the website. Up to 72 hours before, you can choose a voucher or a new date.
How booking works -
Teachers
Your craft, on your calendar.
With ToBePolo you decide what you teach, when and at what price. Signing up is free; on every booking ToBePolo keeps a 20% commission + VAT. Without a VAT number you teach as a ToBePolo Hobbyist, low-risk experiences only.
Teach your craft -
Municipalities and public bodies
In every town there is someone who knows a craft.
ToBePolo makes it bookable, even out of season and away from the busiest destinations.
ToBePolo for municipalities
AI Colombo
It is ToBePolo’s artificial intelligence.
It helps us find crafts in Italian towns and, on the website, suggests real crafts and experiences from the catalogue to anyone looking for an idea.
Ask Colombo
Made in Garda, for all of Italy
ToBePolo S.r.l. is based in Castiglione delle Stiviere, in the province of Mantua, south of Lake Garda. We start from here and from the towns around the lake.
Old crafts and today’s: from the wood-fired oven to the digital lab, as long as someone knows how to do them and wants to teach them.
About usTerritories, public bodies and media
The information pages of the areas we start from, and the media that have covered ToBePolo.
Territories and public bodies
These are information sheets curated by ToBePolo: their presence does not indicate membership, patronage or an official collaboration with the bodies mentioned.
