Bomarzo On the trail

Bomarzo Park of the Monsters read as a stone book, with a guide

Bomarzo

The monsters at Bomarzo were cut from the rock where it already stood, so nothing here was carried in and placed: it was found and freed. Taken in order, with someone who knows the order, the wood reads as a sentence instead of a set of oddities.

How the day goes

  1. Meet at the gate of the Sacro Bosco and begin where the route was meant to begin, at the Theatre.
  2. The Chariot of Cybele, the leaning house, the mouth of Cerberus, each one a stage rather than a photo stop.
  3. Out of the wood with the sequence closed, and Bomarzo on the ridge above for lunch.

If you would rather wander and be surprised, the plain entry ticket suits you better: this visit works by holding you to a route.

Where it is

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

Bomarzo, and where it is from Rome Bomarzo drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 78 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 78 min Rome Bomarzo

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Monterone 9, 01010 Blera (VT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 18drive from the middle of Rome
  • 95 kmeach way
  • 2 honce 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, 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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Also around Bomarzo

Bomarzo On the trail

Park of the Monsters, Bomarzo

The sixteenth-century Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo, with more than thirty colossal figures carved out of the local peperino stone.

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Bomarzo In the old stones

The cathedral of Bomarzo

A Renaissance church at Bomarzo.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up

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More on the trail

A stony ridge path across open highland On the trail

Monte Soratte from Sant'Oreste

6.8 km and 691 metres of climbing, with a guide and never more than ten of you.

€49 per person

Books on Nature of Sal — Salvatore Benintende

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A child in a harness crossing a rope bridge between trees On the trail

A morning in the trees

Clip into a harness and cross the trees: from age four there is a course to do.

€5 per person

Books on ViviAvventura

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