Pontinia On the trail

How a marsh became farmland, told in Pontinia

Pontinia

The flat farmland south of Rome was a malarial marsh within living memory. This museum is the account of how it was drained and who was moved in to work it.

How the day goes

  1. Everyday objects carry the story, since the people who arrived brought little else.
  2. The plan of the new towns, and the canals that made them possible.
  3. On the way out, the landscape you drove through becomes readable.
  4. Weekends are open house; other days are arranged in advance for groups.

Where it is

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

Pontinia, and where it is from Rome Pontinia drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 91 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 91 min Rome Pontinia

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Piazza J.F. Kennedy 1, 04014 Pontinia (LT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 31drive from the middle of Rome
  • 88 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 Pontinia

Pontinia With your hands

Buffalo farm visit with a full mozzarella tasting

The farm visit plus a tasting of what the dairy makes that day: ricotta, burrata, smoked and plain ovolina, stracciatella and smoked scamorza, all from buffalo milk.

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Pontinia With your hands

Inside a buffalo farm on the Pontine plain

Visit to a working buffalo farm and dairy at Pontinia: the stalls where the animals are milked, the energy systems, and the dairy where the cheese-making steps can be watched.

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Pontinia With your hands

Buffalo farm visit with a mozzarella tasting

The same farm and dairy visit, extended with a tasting of what the dairy makes that day: buffalo ricotta, burrata, smoked ovolina, stracciatella and scamorza.

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More on the trail

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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