Bolsena On the trail

Lake Bolsena Territorial Museum, in the Monaldeschi Fortress

Bolsena

Lake Bolsena is a flooded crater, and this museum starts there, with the volcano, before it gets to the people. Part of what is on show was lifted off the lakebed, from ground that used to be dry.

How the day goes

  1. Through the rooms of the Rocca, from the volcanology to the Etruscan grave goods.
  2. Bronze and Iron Age finds recovered from under the water of the lake.
  3. Roman terracottas, medieval ceramics and the Throne of the Panthers.

You read your way round it rather than being shown round; if you want someone explaining, arrange a guide in town first.

Where it is

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

Bolsena, and where it is from Rome Bolsena drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 114 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 114 min Rome Bolsena

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Piazza Monaldeschi 1, 01023 Bolsena (VT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 54drive from the middle of Rome
  • 142 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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Also around Bolsena

A kitesurfer riding across the water with a power kite overhead On the water

Snorkelling Trip to the Lake Islands

Boat trip to swimming and snorkelling spots around Bisentina and Martana islands, plus coastal points away from the summer crowds.

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Three sailing dinghies under way near a pier On the water

Lake Circumnavigation by Rib Boat

Full circuit of Lake Bolsena by rib boat from the Porto Turistico di Bolsena, calling at Bisentina and Martana islands with stops for swimming, snorkelling and lunch.

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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

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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

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