Cavers in helmets and overalls at a cave entrance Under the ground

NarniAdventures: rope bridges and a zip line in a 13th-century cistern

Narni

Under Piazza Garibaldi there is a vaulted medieval cistern the size of a church, and somebody has strung rope bridges and a zip line across the top of it. You cross it in a harness, well above the floor.

How the day goes

  1. Harness on at the entrance under the square, then up onto the first bridge.
  2. Rope bridges across the vault, a climbing wall on the stonework, and the zip line to finish.
  3. Panels along the way explain where the town's drinking water comes from.

There is a minimum height rather than a minimum age here, so measure the smaller ones before you drive out.

Where it is

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

Narni, and where it is from Rome Narni drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 75 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 75 min Rome Narni

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Piazza Garibaldi, 05035 Narni (TR), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 15drive from the middle of Rome
  • 87 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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