Bassiano With your hands

Aldo Manuzio museum of writing, Bassiano

Bassiano

The printer who gave Europe italic type and the book you can hold in one hand was born in this village on the Lepini. The museum is up in the Palazzo Caetani, where the town hall also sits.

How the day goes

  1. Presses and type: the machinery of a trade that started with a man from here.
  2. Aldine editions in the cases, and a civic collection of books made as artworks.
  3. Ask ahead and they will guide you through it, or set up a workshop at the press.

Where it is

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

Bassiano, and where it is from Rome Bassiano drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 100 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 100 min Rome Bassiano

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Sezze 1, 04010 Bassiano (LT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 40drive from the middle of Rome
  • 86 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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