A snorkeler diving into a shallow river On the water

Learn kitesurfing on the Tarquinia dunes

Tarquinia

A kite, a board and a wide beach among the dunes on the coast north of Rome. Kitesurfing is the sport that runs on weather rather than around it, so the day happens when the wind does.

How the day goes

  1. It starts on the sand, with the kite in the air and you learning what it pulls like.
  2. Then the water, where the kite does the work and your job is to stay under it.
  3. It sits at the physical end of the catalogue: you need to swim and you will use everything.
  4. You come off the beach knowing whether this is a sport you want to keep.

The wind decides, so give it a day you can move around: the painted Etruscan tombs are in the same town if you want a second reason to be there.

Where it is

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

Tarquinia, and where it is from Rome Tarquinia drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 71 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 71 min Rome Tarquinia

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Tarquinia — 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 11drive from the middle of Rome
  • 89 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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  • 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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Tarquinia On the trail

Tarquinia necropolis and museum with an archaeologist

Guided visit by a licensed guide, archaeologist or art historian to the Monterozzi necropolis, where about two hundred painted chambers survive, including the Tomb of the Liones…

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One thing we have not resolved: The school publishes its course levels — kitesurf beginner, intermediate and advanced, plus windsurf, surf, SUP and wingfoil — and little else: no price, no duration, no minimum age, no languages and no season. They also hire out canoes and pedalos. Book by phone or WhatsApp on 333 310 5572, or at [email protected].

Checked 2026-08-18 · positivekite.com/scuola-kitesurf

Photograph by Westcott Phillip, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wikimedia Commons — Public domain. 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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