Calcata With your hands

Opera Bosco: art made of the forest, in the forest

Calcata

Calcata stands on a plug of tufo above the Treja gorge, and the wood underneath it has been turned into a museum without anything being carried in. Everything on show was made from what was already lying there.

How the day goes

  1. Down from the village into the valley and onto the marked route.
  2. Work built from branches, stone, leaves and earth, changing as the wood changes.
  3. If you want, you stay on and make a piece of your own from what you find.

The route is woodland ground rather than a museum floor, so it wants shoes you do not mind getting muddy.

Where it is

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

Calcata, and where it is from Rome Calcata drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 67 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 67 min Rome Calcata

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Localita' Colle, Calcata (VT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 07drive from the middle of Rome
  • 55 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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Cut the grapes yourself. The window opens 1 September and shuts 15 October.

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Photograph by Mac9, Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 2.5. Not this place: it shows what the day looks like, and will be replaced with the operator's own photograph or ours from the field.

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