Pontinia With your hands

Buffalo farm visit with a mozzarella tasting

Pontinia

Mozzarella that has travelled is a different food from mozzarella that has not. Here the distance between the dairy room and the tasting table is a few steps, and you walk it yourself.

How the day goes

  1. The farm and the dairy first, with the day's work happening around you.
  2. Then the table: ricotta, burrata, smoked ovolina, stracciatella, scamorza.
  3. All of it from the animals standing in the barn behind you.

The table is buffalo milk from end to end, so book the plain farm visit instead if cheese is out for you.

Where it is

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

Pontinia, and where it is from Rome Pontinia drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 91 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 91 min Rome Pontinia

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Strada lungo Ufente, 2344, 04014 Pontinia (LT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 31drive from the middle of Rome
  • 88 kmeach way
  • 2 h 30once you are there

  • 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 — so you can actually drink

    Our pick for this one

    There is wine at the end of this one. Somebody else driving is not a luxury here.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody has to stay off the wine

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