Lanuvio With your hands

Shape and fire a piece of terracotta on a farm in the Castelli Romani

Lanuvio

Wet clay under your thumbs, and then the kiln. Whatever you shape on this family farm in the Alban hills goes home with you, fired.

How the day goes

  1. Out to the farm at Lanuvio, south of Rome, where the workshop sits among the fields.
  2. Clay in your hands: pinch, coil, smooth, until the thing holds its shape.
  3. Into the kiln, and the piece you made is yours to carry away.
  4. A fenced park with donkeys, goats and rabbits, so children have somewhere to be.

The farm grew up teaching school groups, so ask on the phone whether they will open a session to visitors rather than a class.

Where it is

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

Lanuvio, and where it is from Rome Lanuvio drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 51 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 51 min Rome Lanuvio

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Piastrarelle 28, 00075 Lanuvio (RM), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 51 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 35 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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