Beekeepers in veils working a hive frame With your hands

Weekend course on the medicinal plants of the Ernici mountains

Collepardo

Collepardo sits under the Ernici mountains, where the woods climb to the Trisulti charterhouse. The course takes the plants growing on that slope and teaches you first to name them, then what people here have always done with them.

How the day goes

  1. Afternoons at a desk: botany, herbal medicine, and the plants passed round to be handled.
  2. Sundays out in the field, walking to the botanical garden and up to the Trisulti charterhouse.
  3. The same plant twice, then — once named on a table, once found growing where it belongs.

It spreads across weekends in spring and early summer, so if you want a single day out of Rome, this is not the shape of it.

Where it is

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

Collepardo, and where it is from Rome Collepardo drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 90 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 90 min Rome Collepardo

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Collepardo — the town, not the meeting point. Ask them where exactly to turn up; the number is on this page.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 30drive from the middle of Rome
  • 97 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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