A caver with a headlamp inside a cave passage Under the ground

The Anagni cathedral museum and the crypt of San Magno

Anagni

Anagni was a pope's town, and under its cathedral there is a crypt with every vault and wall painted. That crypt is why people make the drive out into the Ciociaria.

How the day goes

  1. In with a guide: the chapter library and the old treasury first.
  2. The Caetani chapel, then the oratory named for Thomas Becket.
  3. Down into the crypt of San Magno, where the painting covers everything above your head.
  4. Out into Anagni afterwards, a hill town that holds an afternoon on its own.

Where it is

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

Anagni, and where it is from Rome Anagni drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 61 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 61 min Rome Anagni

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Leone XIII, 03012 Anagni (FR), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 01drive from the middle of Rome
  • 67 kmeach way
  • 1 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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