Two people picking grapes in a vineyard With your hands

Pagus: a rebuilt Etruscan village with hands-on workshops

Castel Sant Elia

The Etruscans left tombs all over this part of Lazio and almost no houses. Pagus rebuilt the houses — roofs, floors, hearths, workshops — so the part everyone misses is the part you walk into.

How the day goes

  1. A guided route through the rebuilt village, told as the story of people who lived in one.
  2. Then the workshops: a dig laid out to excavate, clay to work, fresco to paint, grain to grind.
  3. A tasting of local products before the road back.

Where it is

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

Castel Sant Elia, and where it is from Rome Castel Sant Elia drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 62 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 62 min Rome Castel Sant Elia

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Rio Vicano, Castel Sant'Elia (VT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 02drive from the middle of Rome
  • 54 kmeach way
  • 4 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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The basilica of Sant'Elia

A Romanesque basilica at Castel Sant'Elia, built by Virginio Vespignani.

Free — nothing to pay

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Meet at the station, follow the dog into the wood, dig up what it finds.

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Cut the grapes yourself. The window opens 1 September and shuts 15 October.

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