Snowshoers walking in single file across deep snow On the trail

The Montecassino abbey museum

Cassino

What survived the bombing went down the mountain in crates before the abbey fell. Much of it is back up here now — illuminated pages, ivories, carved fragments of a basilica that no longer exists.

How the day goes

  1. The historical route first: this monastery has burned, fallen and been rebuilt again and again.
  2. Rooms of manuscripts and early printed books, then the ivories, the silver and the vestments.
  3. The stone fragments of the earlier church, which is all that is left of it.
  4. Open every day and straight through, so it fits whenever you get up the hill.

This is the museum rather than the older rooms of the monastery, which are seen on the booked guided visit.

Where it is

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

Cassino, and where it is from Rome Cassino drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 97 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 97 min Rome Cassino

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Montecassino snc, 03043 Cassino (FR), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 37drive from the middle of Rome
  • 132 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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Snowshoers walking in single file across deep snow On the trail

Guided tour of the Montecassino library

A guided tour of the monumental hall of the Montecassino library, one of the oldest in the world, whose holdings go back to the sixth-century foundation of the monastery.

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Clip into a harness and cross the trees: from age four there is a course to do.

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