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Walking with donkeys through the chestnut woods to a rock hermitage

Vallerano

The donkeys live loose in the chestnut woods above Vallerano and come along because they feel like it. You walk, they walk, and the path ends at a hermitage cut into the rock.

How the day goes

  1. Meet the donkeys in the woods and set off with them, at their pace.
  2. Up to the rock hermitage of San Leonardo, cool and quiet inside the stone.
  3. Organic jam made here to taste at the end, before the road back through the Cimini.

Nobody rides here — this is a walk with animals for company, so if you came for the saddle it is the wrong day.

Where it is

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

Vallerano, and where it is from Rome Vallerano drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 81 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 81 min Rome Vallerano

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Monterone 9, 01010 Blera (VT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 21drive from the middle of Rome
  • 69 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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