Snowshoers walking in single file across deep snow On the trail

Privernum archaeological park

Priverno

A Roman town that never moved. Privernum stayed on the plain by the Amaseno until the middle ages walked away uphill, and the streets, the walls and the floors of the houses are still where they were left.

How the day goes

  1. Meet at the gate: you go in with the guide, or you do not go in.
  2. Follow the street grid past the city walls and into the house floors.
  3. The mosaics and the small finds continue in the museum up in Priverno.

The gate opens for the guided visit in the morning and not again, so this is a start-early day rather than an afternoon idea.

Where it is

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

Priverno, and where it is from Rome Priverno drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 91 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 91 min Rome Priverno

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Strada Regionale 609 Carpinetana, Via Maenza Piperno, 04015 Priverno (LT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 31drive from the middle of Rome
  • 108 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 Priverno

Priverno On the trail

Fossanova Abbey

The Cistercian abbey where Thomas Aquinas died in 1274, with its Gothic church and cloister.

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Priverno On the trail

Fossanova Abbey with a licensed guide

Guided visit of the Cistercian abbey: the church, the cloister with its paired columns, the cell where Thomas Aquinas died in 1274, and the small village that grew around the mo…

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Priverno On the trail

Carlo Cicala archaeological museum, Priverno

Museum in the historic Palazzo Antonelli on the main square of Priverno, with over a thousand objects from the Roman colony of Privernum: mosaics, statues, portraits, inscriptio…

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A forest track between bare trees On the trail

Medieval museum of Fossanova

Museum in the abbey village of Fossanova, part of the PrivernoMUSEI system, with medieval architectural sculpture: pillars, capitals and architraves from the Cistercian complex.

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€5 per person

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