Palombara Sabina With your hands

Olive grove, mill and guided oil tasting in the Sabina

Palombara Sabina

Bitter and pungent are not faults in olive oil, they are the point, and by the end of this you can name them. It starts under the trees at Palombara Sabina, in DOP Sabina country.

How the day goes

  1. A walk among the trees, with a technician naming the native cultivars as you pass.
  2. Into the mill, where the extraction gets walked through step by step.
  3. The tasting: fruity, bitter, pungent, taken apart and given their names.

Where it is

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

Palombara Sabina, and where it is from Rome Palombara Sabina drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 54 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 54 min Rome Palombara Sabina

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Quadrivio di Quirani, Palombara Sabina (RM), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 54 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 46 kmeach way
  • 45 minonce you are there

  • 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 — so you can actually drink

    Our pick for this one

    There is wine at the end of this one. Somebody else driving is not a luxury here.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody has to stay off the wine

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Sulphur pools in the Sabina hills

Sulphur pools open till 18:30, and the operator publishes the train to get there.

€12 per person

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Meet at the station, follow the dog into the wood, dig up what it finds.

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Cut the grapes yourself. The window opens 1 September and shuts 15 October.

€40 per person

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