A group riding horses along a valley track On horseback

A day on horseback across the Simbruini plateaus

Cervara di Roma

Campaegli and Camposecco are open karst plains high in the Simbruini: grass, sinkholes, and the beech woods standing back at the edges. On horseback you cross them instead of skirting them, which is the only way the size of the place lands.

How the day goes

  1. Out from the stables in the morning and up onto the open grass of Campaegli.
  2. Across to Camposecco, where the plain drops into hollows and no road is in sight.
  3. A stop at a mountain refuge for lunch, then the long way round back towards the stables.
  4. Off the mountain in the afternoon, down through Cervara, back in Rome for dinner.

A whole day in the saddle asks for legs and patience; if you want the mountain without the horse, the same plateaus walk well.

Where it is

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

Cervara di Roma, and where it is from Rome Cervara di Roma drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 72 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 72 min Rome Cervara di Roma

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Cervara di Roma — 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

  • 1 h 12drive from the middle of Rome
  • 76 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 Cervara di Roma

Cervara Di Roma On the trail

Stargazing at the Cervara observatory

Free evening observation sessions at the Claudio del Sole astronomical observatory at Prataglia, above Cervara di Roma, run by an astronomy association.

See the day

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