Vetralla With your hands

Watch the olives being pressed at a working mill under Vetralla's walls

Vetralla

In the pressing season the mill runs from first light until dark, and you can walk in and watch the oil come out of the machine.

How the day goes

  1. Down the old Cassia to Vetralla, with the medieval walls standing above the mill.
  2. Inside while the presses turn: the fruit going in at one end, the oil running out.
  3. The smell of new oil, which lasts about as long as the harvest does.
  4. The shop is there too, so a bottle of what you watched being made goes home.

In the pressing months you can turn up unannounced; the rest of the year ring first, because the floor is quiet and what is open is the shop.

Where it is

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

Vetralla, and where it is from Rome Vetralla drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 78 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 78 min Rome Vetralla

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Viale Eugenio IV 107, 01019 Vetralla (VT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 18drive from the middle of Rome
  • 69 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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Also around Vetralla

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Norchia: the rock necropolis hidden in the wild

Walk to the Etruscan temple-tombs cut into the walls of a canyon, the ruins of the medieval castle and the church of San Pietro, crossing gorges and fording the river.

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Truffle hunting with a dog

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

€72 per person

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Join the grape harvest

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

€40 per person

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