A canyoner in helmet and wetsuit descending a rope beside a waterfall Down the river

Rafting, canoe and SUP on the Nera at Ferentillo

Ferentillo

Ferentillo is a village with a ruined castle above it and the Nera running underneath. The centre in the village puts people on that river in whatever floats best on the day.

How the day goes

  1. Choose the boat: a raft with a crew, an inflatable canoe, or a paddleboard.
  2. Out on the Nera below the village, valley walls standing on both sides.
  3. Longer days that add a walk or a bike ride, or the flat water up at Piediluco.

Everything here is river water and moving boats, so wet clothes are the plan rather than the accident.

Where it is

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

Ferentillo, and where it is from Rome Ferentillo drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 108 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 108 min Rome Ferentillo

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Roma 21, Ferentillo (TR), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 48drive from the middle of Rome
  • 122 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 Ferentillo

Stalactites lit inside a show cave Under the ground

The mummies in the crypt of Santo Stefano

The crypt under the church of Santo Stefano holds bodies that dried out naturally instead of decaying, found during nineteenth-century exhumations, together with skulls and bones.

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More down the river

A river running through a wooded valley Down the river

Soft rafting on the Aniene

Five kilometres down the Aniene. Helmet and paddle included, shuttle to the start.

€25 per person

Books on viverelaniene.com

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A river running through a wooded valley Down the river

Urban rafting on the Tiber

Paddle under Castel Sant'Angelo and past Tiber Island, down the middle of Rome.

A sports club — you join them for the day

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A waterfall dropping into a pool Down the river

Canyoning in the Sabina gorges

Forty-five minutes walking in, then two hours down the Fosso Ravi gorge.

€50 per person

Books on avventuristicandopark.com

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A canyoner in the water of a canyon, helmet and wetsuit on Down the river

Power rafting on the Aniene

The same stretch of the Aniene as the soft rafting but run in wetsuits, with a land briefing first, then strong currents, rapids, surfing and jumps at the end.

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