An electric bike on a gravel path with the motor and battery visible On two wheels

Bike rental on the Ancient Appian Way

Rome

The cafe stands on the basalt of the Appia itself, so the ride starts where the paving does. You take a bike from the counter and go out along the oldest road out of Rome.

How the day goes

  1. Rent the bike at the cafe, on the road rather than a bus ride from it.
  2. Out over the basalt slabs between tombs and pines, the traffic long gone.
  3. Back to the same table for a coffee, with the road still in your legs.

Roman paving is rough going: ask for fat tyres, and skip it if your wrists object.

Where it is

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

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

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Appia Antica 175, Roma (RM), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • In Rome itselfno drive at all

  • 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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