Nemi
A village on a cliff above a crater lake, and the strawberry country underneath it.
15 days outthe nearest is a 47 min drive from Rome
Nemi is the smaller and stranger of the two Castelli lakes. The village is one street long and hangs over the water; the Romans kept ceremonial ships on the lake and the museum below the village was built around what was left of them.
Most of what you can book here is food — the wild strawberries the village is known for, the wine of the hills behind, kitchens that will teach you what they do with both.
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On the waterGuests sit on a floating platform out on Lake Nemi and are served by staff.
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On the waterAn hour on Lake Nemi on a stand-up paddleboard with a federal instructor, board and gear included.
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On horsebackA riding school set inside a working farm in the crater of Lake Nemi, next to the archaeological area of the temple of Diana Nemorensis: lessons from pony first-contact upwards,…
A sports club — you join them for the day
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With your handsEach participant is given fresh herbs in spring and summer, dried ones in autumn and winter, and hears the history and uses of each.
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With your handsA short course on recognising, gathering and cooking wild edible plants, held at the Le Erbe della Luna farm by Lake Nemi.
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With your handsA four-hour practical class on gricia, amatriciana, carbonara and cacio e pepe, taught step by step with the participants doing every stage from preparing the ingredients to pla…
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With your handsParticipants pick edible flowers — cultivated organically on the farm and wild ones in season — and turn them into two preparations, between drinks and cooked dishes, depending …
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With your handsA walk through fields and woods with Massimo, a grower, to see the three kinds of strawberry grown at Nemi — the wild one, the everbearing one and the fragolone.
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With your handsA sensory walk through the farm's cultivated and wild medicinal herbs, then each participant picks a selection and blends tisanes with the grower — separating functional blends …
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With your handsA visit to a working medicinal-herb farm in which the plants are met through all five senses — smelled, touched, and tasted straight from the field — with a tasting of the farm'…
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On the trailThe museum was built between 1933 and 1939 to hold two enormous ships of the emperor Caligula recovered from Lake Nemi, destroyed by fire in 1944.
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On the trailA four-hour day around Lake Nemi that takes in the temple of Diana, the Museo delle Navi Romane with Caligula's ships, and the walk towards the Roman emissary, then visits three…
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Under the groundA six-hour guided day around the underground hydraulic works of the Lake Nemi basin — horizontal wells and tunnels, some still carrying water.
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In the old stonesA Baroque sanctuary at Nemi, from the seventeenth century.
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In the old stonesAn archaeological site at Nemi.
Free — nothing to pay
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