With your handsA working buffalo dairy on the flat farmland south of Rome, where the clock belongs to the herd and you fit yourself into it. You turn up for the milking and stay for the cheese.
You watch the cheese being made, you do not make it — if you want your own hands in the work, the pasta days near Tivoli and Frascati are the ones.
Pontinia 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 Pontinia — the town, not the meeting point. Check with the operator where exactly to turn up: their own page is linked further up.
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 handsThe farm visit plus a tasting of what the dairy makes that day: ricotta, burrata, smoked and plain ovolina, stracciatella and smoked scamorza, all from buffalo milk.
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With your handsVisit to a working buffalo farm and dairy at Pontinia: the stalls where the animals are milked, the energy systems, and the dairy where the cheese-making steps can be watched.
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With your handsThe same farm and dairy visit, extended with a tasting of what the dairy makes that day: buffalo ricotta, burrata, smoked ovolina, stracciatella and scamorza.
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On the trailThe Pro Loco of Pontinia runs the MAP, the museum of the Pontine plain: the story of how a malarial marsh south of Rome was drained in the 1930s and turned into farmland, told t…
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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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See the dayAbout getting back: Pontinia has no station and we have not checked the bus to Latina Scalo, so the last useful departure from Pontinia is unknown. The last service of the day is a night train to Roma Ostiense; the last regional leaves at 22:57.
Checked 2026-08-08 · agricolacirce.it/experience
Photograph by Antsalvati, Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0. 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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