Monte Compatri With your hands

Truffle hunt with the dogs and a seven-course truffle lunch

Monte Compatri

The dogs decide where this one goes. They work the hills above Monte Compatri with their noses down, and when one of them starts digging you are the one who has to get there to see what comes up.

How the day goes

  1. You are met at the metro station and driven up into the hills where the truffles are.
  2. The hunt itself, following the dogs through the wood until they find something.
  3. Lunch at the host's own house afterwards, course after course of truffle, with his own wine.

Young children can struggle with the walking and with staying quiet while the dogs work, so check the age limit when you book.

Where it is

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

Monte Compatri, and where it is from Rome Monte Compatri drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 36 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 36 min Rome Monte Compatri

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Monte Compatri — 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

  • 36 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 28 kmeach way
  • 6 h 30once 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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