Riders on horseback on a trail through open country On horseback

Natural Horsemanship trial session at Appia Antica

Rome

Natural horsemanship starts on the ground, not in the saddle: you learn to ask, and the horse decides whether the ask made sense. Ciampacavallo has been doing it in the Appian Way park for a long time.

How the day goes

  1. Meet the instructors and the horse, with a rope in your hand and nothing else.
  2. Work on the ground first: how you stand, where you look, when to stop asking.
  3. Into the saddle once the horse is with you, under the pines of the park.

If you want to get on and ride out straight away, this is the slower door in.

Where it is

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Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Appia Pignatelli 208, 00178 Roma (RM), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • In Rome itselfno drive at all

  • 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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