With your handsThe children become worker bees first, in a game where each one gets a job the colony really needs doing. Then they go and look at the real ones through the glass.
It runs on still, sunny days from spring into autumn, and it is built for a group of children rather than a family on its own.
Poggio Mirteto 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 Poggio Mirteto — the town, not the meeting point. Ask them where exactly to turn up; the number is on this page.
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 beekeeping session at Poggio Mirteto: an introduction to beekeeping, a visit to the glass-walled observation hut where the colony can be watched, and a sensory tasting of sing…
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In the old stonesA Baroque cathedral at Poggio Mirteto, from the seventeenth century.
Free — nothing to pay
Just turn up
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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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