Minturno On the trail

The Roman town of Minturnae, its theatre and the Bourbon bridge

Minturno

The Appian Way runs straight through the middle of the dig, paving and kerbs and all, and the aqueduct arches march off across the fields behind the theatre. You walk the road the legions walked out on.

How the day goes

  1. In along the Appia to the forum, with the theatre standing at the end of it.
  2. The Antiquarium next, holding what came out of the ground around you.
  3. The aqueduct arches out in the fields, going on further than you expect.
  4. Down at the river, the Bourbon suspension bridge — the first of its kind in Italy — on its rare open days.

Open ground with the sun full on it: better as a morning or a late afternoon than the middle of a summer day.

Where it is

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

Minturno, and where it is from Rome Minturno drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 125 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 125 min Rome Minturno

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Ferdinando II di Borbone s.n.c. - 04026 Minturno (LT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 2 h 05drive from the middle of Rome
  • 154 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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Also around Minturno

Minturno In the old stones

Ponte Real Ferdinando

A bridge at Minturno, from the nineteenth century.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up — open air, any hour

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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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