With your handsAriccia is known for porchetta, and this is the other thing it has: a kitchen working through fermentation and long technique, in a town most people drive straight past on the way to the lakes.
The evening asks for time at the table; if there is a train back to Rome you have to catch, take the set lunch instead.
Ariccia at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.
Open it where the roads are
Takes you to Viale dei Castani, 17 — Ariccia (RM), the address the operator publishes.
Getting there
The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.
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With your handsA beekeeper opens the hives and explains how the colony is organised and how honey is made, in an apiary inside the Parco Regionale dei Castelli Romani.
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On the trailA guided walk that starts in Piazza di Corte, crosses the whole old town and follows the sixteenth mile of the Appian Way through the Valle Ariccia, coming back up by the modern…
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On two wheelsA guided e-bike ride that leaves central Rome on the Appian Way past Cecilia Metella, Villa dei Quintili and Santa Maria Nova, climbs to Albano Laziale, Ariccia — where there is…
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On the trailA guided visit to the piano nobile of Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, the baroque residence that still has its original furnishings, with the Cardinal's Rooms and the Museum of the Ba…
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With your handsMeet at the station, follow the dog into the wood, dig up what it finds.
€72 per person
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With your handsMetro C to the end of the line, two hours hunting, then a seven-course lunch.
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With your handsCut the grapes yourself. The window opens 1 September and shuts 15 October.
€40 per person
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With your handsMake the pasta at a Frascati winery: 22 minutes by train, picked up at the station.
€109 per person
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