Greccio On the trail

International Nativity Museum at Greccio

Greccio

Nativity scenes from everywhere: carved, woven, moulded, made of tin or bread dough, gathered inside a small medieval church at the edge of Greccio, which is where the whole idea began.

How the day goes

  1. Into the church of Santa Maria and the restored rooms beside it.
  2. Compare how each country builds the same night out of its own materials.
  3. Then up the hill to the sanctuary in the rock, which is the reason for all of it.

It is one small collection rather than a whole day: build it into a visit to Greccio and the Valle Santa rather than driving up for it alone.

Where it is

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

Greccio, and where it is from Rome Greccio drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 100 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 100 min Rome Greccio

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via San Francesco, 100 m from Piazza Roma, 02045 Greccio (RI), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 40drive 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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Also around Greccio

Greccio In the old stones

The sanctuary of Greccio

A sanctuary at Greccio, from the thirteenth century.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up

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A stony ridge path across open highland On the trail

Monte Soratte from Sant'Oreste

6.8 km and 691 metres of climbing, with a guide and never more than ten of you.

€49 per person

Books on Nature of Sal — Salvatore Benintende

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A child in a harness crossing a rope bridge between trees On the trail

A morning in the trees

Clip into a harness and cross the trees: from age four there is a course to do.

€5 per person

Books on ViviAvventura

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Photograph by Christopher John SSF from Stroud, NSW, Australia, Wikimedia Commons — CC BY 2.0. 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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