A wakeboarder skimming across flat water behind a towline On the water

Boat diving between Santa Marinella and Civitavecchia

Civitavecchia

Riva di Traiano is a working marina, and the centre there runs boats over the sea between Civitavecchia and Santa Marinella. Hot showers and rinse tanks are waiting on the quay when you climb back out.

How the day goes

  1. Sign in at the centre, pick up rental gear if you need it, and board.
  2. Out over the site, in with a guide, along the rock and back up.
  3. Shower on the quay, gear rinsed, and the afternoon still yours.

You will be in open water off a boat, so this is a day for people who already dive rather than a first look underwater.

Where it is

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

Civitavecchia, and where it is from Rome Civitavecchia 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 Civitavecchia

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Porto Turistico di Riva di Traiano, Via Aurelia Sud km 67,580, Civitavecchia (RM), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 02drive from the middle of Rome
  • 72 kmeach way

  • 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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A Neoclassical fountain at Civitavecchia, built by Luigi Vanvitelli.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up — open air, any hour

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