Riders on horseback on a trail through open country On horseback

Ride out through the woods above Lake Nemi, beside the temple of Diana

Nemi

A working farm inside the crater of Lake Nemi, with the ruins of Diana's temple over the fence. You ride out from there into the woods that gave the lake its old name, the mirror of Diana.

How the day goes

  1. Meet the horses at the farm, on the flat crater floor beside the archaeological area.
  2. Out through the woods of the valley, at whatever pace the group can hold.
  3. Back to the olive grove and the beehives, and a table under the trees if you brought lunch.

It is a sports association rather than a company, so taking part can mean joining rather than buying a ticket, and the day is run in Italian: phone ahead and ask.

Where it is

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

Nemi, and where it is from Rome Nemi drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 47 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 47 min Rome Nemi

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via del Tempio di Diana 24/a, Lake Nemi, 00040 Nemi (RM), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 47 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 32 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

    Affiliate link — you pay their price, never more, and they pay us. You book with Localrent, and anything about that booking goes through them.

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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

    Affiliate link — you pay their price, never more, and they pay us. You book with Welcome Pickups, and anything about that booking goes through them.

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Photograph by Garry Knight from London, England, Wikimedia Commons — CC BY 2.0. Not this place: it shows what the day looks like, and will be replaced with the operator's own photograph or ours from the field.

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