Santa Severa On horseback

Beach ride at Santa Severa castle or trail ride in the Tolfa hills

Santa Severa

The castle of Santa Severa stands with its feet in the sea, and you can ride the sand beside it at first light or at sunset. Inland, the same people take you up into the Tolfa oak woods.

How the day goes

  1. Pick the coast or the hills when you book, and the time of day with it.
  2. On the beach: wet sand underfoot, the castle on one side, the sea on the other.
  3. Or inland above Tolfa, through oak wood and out along the open ridges.
  4. Gentle horses and guides from here, so it works without riding experience.

Booking is required and the ride depends on the weather, so it is not a plan you make on the morning itself.

Where it is

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

Santa Severa, and where it is from Rome Santa Severa 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 Santa Severa

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Santa Severa — 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

  • 51 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 55 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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