A potter shaping a pot on the wheel, finished pieces behind With your hands

Truffle hunting, then cooking what you found

Montefalco

The dogs decide how the morning goes. They work the estate's own woods, and whatever they turn up is what you cook afterwards and what arrives on the plate in the tasting room.

How the day goes

  1. Into the woods behind the vines, following the dogs and the man they work for.
  2. Back in for the cellar, then the kitchen, where you cook what came out of the ground.
  3. A meal in the tasting room, with your own dig in the dish.

Truffles keep their own calendar and the woods do not always give — ask which season you are booking into before you fix the date.

Where it is

Montefalco at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Montefalco, and where it is from Rome Montefalco drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 128 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 128 min Rome Montefalco

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Montefalco — the town, not the meeting point. Ask them where exactly to turn up; the number is on this page.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 2 h 08drive from the middle of Rome
  • 148 kmeach way
  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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