The Marcantoni museum in Civita Castellana keeps a workshop behind it, and you get a place at the bench. You spend the afternoon making a cup, and the cup comes home with you.
How the day goes
Sit down with a lump of clay and someone showing you what your hands should be doing.
The middle is quiet and repetitive, which is the part nobody expects to enjoy and everybody does.
You leave with the thing you made, which is rare for a day out.
Weather is irrelevant: it is all indoors, so it holds when the rest of the week does not.
It runs for a group rather than a pair — the right day if you are travelling with friends or family, and worth joining up with others if you are not.
Where it is
Civita Castellana at its real position from
Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.
Takes you to Civita Castellana — the town, not the meeting point. Check
with the operator where exactly to turn up: their own page is linked further up.
Getting there
Getting there, the comfortable way
1 h 08drive from the middle of Rome
81 kmeach way
3 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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One thing we have not resolved: Municipal museum of Civita Castellana, not a private operator: there is no online booking and no affiliate relationship to have. — The site we checked this on, museomarcantoni.it, is refusing connections, so we could not re-check it. That is not the same as the activity being gone — it means we could not look.
Photograph by Croberto68, Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 3.0. 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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