On the waterSUP lesson on Lake Nemi with a herb-farm tasting
An hour on Lake Nemi on a stand-up paddleboard with a federal instructor, board and gear included.
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On the waterFloating aperitivo on Lake Nemi at sunset
Guests sit on a floating platform out on Lake Nemi and are served by staff.
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On horsebackRide out through the woods above Lake Nemi, beside the temple of Diana
A riding school set inside a working farm in the crater of Lake Nemi, next to the archaeological area of the temple of Diana Nemorensis: lessons from pony first-contact upwards,…
A sports club — you join them for the day
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In the old stonesThe sanctuary of Santissimo Crocifisso
A Baroque sanctuary at Nemi, from the seventeenth century.
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In the old stonesThe sanctuary of Diana
An archaeological site at Nemi.
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With your handsFour-hour class on the four Roman pasta sauces
A four-hour practical class on gricia, amatriciana, carbonara and cacio e pepe, taught step by step with the participants doing every stage from preparing the ingredients to pla…
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With your handsPick herbs on the farm and blend your own tisanes
A sensory walk through the farm's cultivated and wild medicinal herbs, then each participant picks a selection and blends tisanes with the grower — separating functional blends …
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With your handsCook with edible flowers picked on the farm
Participants pick edible flowers — cultivated organically on the farm and wild ones in season — and turn them into two preparations, between drinks and cooked dishes, depending …
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With your handsIdentify, pick and cook wild edible greens
A short course on recognising, gathering and cooking wild edible plants, held at the Le Erbe della Luna farm by Lake Nemi.
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With your handsPlant and pick the wild strawberries of Nemi
A walk through fields and woods with Massimo, a grower, to see the three kinds of strawberry grown at Nemi — the wild one, the everbearing one and the fragolone.
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With your handsSensory visit to a medicinal-herb farm by Lake Nemi
A visit to a working medicinal-herb farm in which the plants are met through all five senses — smelled, touched, and tasted straight from the field — with a tasting of the farm'…
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With your handsBlend a herbal cocktail base as a group workshop
Each participant is given fresh herbs in spring and summer, dried ones in autumn and winter, and hears the history and uses of each.
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Under the groundRoman water tunnels and springs around Lake Nemi
A six-hour guided day around the underground hydraulic works of the Lake Nemi basin — horizontal wells and tunnels, some still carrying water.
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On the trailThe Rex Nemorensis: Diana's sanctuary, Caligula's ships and the lake today
A four-hour day around Lake Nemi that takes in the temple of Diana, the Museo delle Navi Romane with Caligula's ships, and the walk towards the Roman emissary, then visits three…
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On the trailCaligula's ships: the museum built for two Roman hulls
The museum was built between 1933 and 1939 to hold two enormous ships of the emperor Caligula recovered from Lake Nemi, destroyed by fire in 1944.
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On two wheelsE-bike in the Castelli Romani, by train from Rome
The train tickets are in the price. You ride the Castelli, Castel Gandolfo to Nemi.
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On the trailTwo-day trek between the lakes sleeping in tents hung from trees
Day one walks from Castel Gandolfo to Nemi between the two lakes, with a brunch stop at a farm bistrot and a floating aperitivo on the lake at the end; the night is spent in ten…
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With your handsA day eating and drinking in the Castelli, hosted in English
Four day-long outings run in English by a small local company: a street-food stroll through Frascati, Nemi or Ariccia ending in a fraschetta; a private tasting room in one of th…
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On the trailGenzano, the via Virbia and the nineteenth mile of the Appian Way
A five-kilometre guided walk taking in Palazzo and Parco Sforza Cesarini, the Castelluccia quarter looking over Lake Nemi, the church of Santa Maria della Cima, the Clementine f…
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On the trailFrancigena walk between the two volcanic lakes
A ten-kilometre easy walk from Castel Gandolfo to Nemi between the two crater lakes, through woods and past the villages on their rims.
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