Cantalupo In Sabina With your hands

Cold-process soap and herbal ointment workshop

Cantalupo in Sabina

Cantalupo in Sabina is olive country, and the farm above it works the plants as well as the fruit. Arianna sets out oils, lye and dried flowers on a table and you make something that has to sit for weeks before it is any use.

How the day goes

  1. Arrive at the organic farm above Cantalupo, with the work laid out on the table.
  2. Pick your line: soap by the cold process, or an ointment of calendula or St John's wort.
  3. Weighing, stirring, and then the slow part where the mixture changes on its own.
  4. Ciambelline and focaccia at the end, with the Sabina going quiet outside.

Most of it happens standing at a table at a patient pace, so if you want ground under your feet the olive-grove walks nearby are the other way to spend the morning.

Where it is

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

Cantalupo in Sabina, and where it is from Rome Cantalupo in Sabina drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 59 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 59 min Rome Cantalupo in Sabina

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Cantalupo in Sabina — the town, not the meeting point. Ask them where exactly to turn up; the number is on this page.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 59 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 64 kmeach way
  • 2 honce 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, 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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