Anagni On the trail

The Hernici archaeological museum at Anagni

Anagni

Everyone comes to Anagni for the popes. The Hernici were here first — a people Rome fought hard before absorbing them — and this is where their whole district gets laid out instead of just the town.

How the day goes

  1. Rooms arranged around the country outside the walls, not the medieval centre.
  2. Material from the Hernici hill settlements, the part of this landscape nobody photographs.
  3. The combined ticket takes you on to the palace of Boniface VIII.

Small and specific: it works best as the other half of the Anagni ticket rather than as a trip of 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 Anagni — the town, not the meeting point. Ask them where exactly to turn up; the number is on this page.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 01drive from the middle of Rome
  • 67 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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A caver with a headlamp inside a cave passage Under the ground

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