42 days out for “caves”

On the water

Circeo sea caves by boat

Forty caves along the Circeo promontory, twelve aboard, two hours and a quarter.

€40 per person

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Under the ground

Stiffe caves: an underground river you walk beside

A guided walk into an active resurgence cave where a river runs, with waterfalls and pools along the route.

On the water

Boat out to the sea caves of Sperlonga

An hour and a half out of the harbour to the Grotta Azzurra, with a swim stop.

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Under the ground

Pastena caves

Walk into the hill on wet steps, in a guided group of no more than twelve.

€10 per person

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Under the ground

Guided walk through the Pastena caves

A guided walk through a through-cave that water still runs into, inside the Monti Ausoni regional park.

On the water

Snorkelling trip to the sea caves and coves of Ponza

Guided snorkelling outing along the Ponza coast, visiting sea caves and coves.

On the water

Boat run around the sea caves of Ponza

Short boat trip along the sea caves of Ponza sold by the island's travel agency.

Under the ground

Go down into the caves under Orvieto

An hour under the city, in a cave that holds a steady 14 °C.

Booked by phone

With your hands

Tower, cellar and rock-cut caves at a Lanuvio wine estate

The visit starts at the top of the Torre di Presciano in the middle of the vineyards, goes down into the fermentation cellar and then into caves cut into the rock in the early 1…

Under the ground

The Falvaterra caves, the easy route

A short guided walk along an underground river inside the Falvaterra and Rio Obaco natural monument.

On the water

Boat tour around the Circeo headland and its sea caves

A boat leaves the marina of San Felice Circeo and goes right around the Circeo headland, passing its caves, beaches and coves.

Under the ground

Orvieto Underground: the caves under the town

A guided walk through part of the man-made caves dug into the tufa rock under Orvieto, with cisterns, quarries and dovecotes cut into the cliff.

Under the ground

Pozzo della Cava: nine caves under the medieval quarter

A self-guided route through nine linked caves under the medieval quarter of Orvieto, including an Etruscan well, a kiln for medieval pottery and pre-Roman finds left where they …

Under the ground

Caving in the Simbruini mountains

A guided visit to natural caves inside the Monti Simbruini park, wearing a helmet and head torch, through tunnels and narrow passages.

In the hot water

The natural steam grotto at Terme dei Papi

A cave cut into the rock where hyperthermal water surfaces at 58 degrees and fills the room with steam, used as a natural Turkish bath.

Under the ground

Etruscan Rock Necropolises and Civita Museum, Grotte di Castro

Two Etruscan rock-cut necropolises, Pianezze and Centocamere, reopened to the public on 1 May, plus the Civita museum in the village, which reconstructs the interior of a chambe…

Under the ground

Castello Ruspoli plus the Vignanello underground tunnels

A combined visit: the Ruspoli castle and its gardens, then the tunnels dug under Vignanello known as 'I Connutti'.

Under the ground

Wading the Falvaterra underground river, blue route

A caving trip on foot through the active branch of the Falvaterra system, walking in water at about 14-15 degrees.

Under the ground

Wading the Falvaterra underground river, green route

The longer caving route through the active Falvaterra system.

On the trail

Selvascura cave and Valvisciolo Abbey

Guided hike along the old paths between the Lepini villages, to the Santuario del Crocifisso built around the Selvascura cave and on to Valvisciolo Abbey, reading the symbols ca…

Under the ground

Climb down the steps inside the Turk's Cave

To the left of the sanctuary church a stairway drops into the Grotta del Turco, the third and largest fissure of the split mountain: a pointed arch of rock open to the sea, wher…

Under the ground

Descend an Etruscan well and cave complex in Orvieto

Turn up, pay at the door, and climb down an Etruscan well and its caves.

€5 per person

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On the water

Two-hour boat run to the Grotte di Pilato and the sea stacks

Short scheduled boat trip from Ponza harbour to the Roman fish tanks known as Grotte di Pilato and to the sea stacks.

With your hands

Organic wines in an underground cellar between Sovana and Pitigliano

A small organic estate on volcanic soil between Pitigliano, Sovana and Sorano, certified organic since 1994.

With your hands

Premium version of the Lanuvio tower and cave wine tour

Same route as the Light tasting — tower, fermentation cellar, rock-cut caves, multimedia room and barrel cellar — with a fuller tasting of the estate's five wines and its olive …

In the hot water

Three hours in a private cave spa at Ariccia

Three hours in a spa set in a cave, reserved for one party at a time, in the old centre of Ariccia.

On the trail

Waymarked walks from the Falvaterra cave visitor centre

A set of walking routes that all start from the visitor centre at the Falvaterra caves.

Under the ground

Narni Underground: the Inquisition cell found in 1979

A guided visit to the rooms under the former convent of San Domenico: a frescoed church, a Roman cistern and the cell used by the Holy Office, whose graffiti are still being res…

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Under the ground

Underground Viterbo: Etruscan galleries beneath the old town

Visit to the network of tunnels and chambers dug under the medieval quarter of Viterbo.

Under the ground

Underground Viterbo: the short tunnel route

A 25-minute walk through about 250 metres of tunnels cut into the tufa under Piazza della Morte, on two levels at three and eight metres below the square, lit by LEDs.

Under the ground

Underground Viterbo plus the Templar Museum

A one-hour guided route covering about a kilometre of tunnels under Viterbo plus entry to the Templar Museum, with a tasting of local products.

Under the ground

Four hundred square metres of Orvieto's underground, five euros, no booking

Beneath a house on Via della Pace in Orvieto lie more than 400 square metres of caves and tunnels on several levels, cut into the tufo across three thousand years: Etruscan grai…

Under the ground

Speleo-canyoning in a hidden cave

A trip that combines caving with canyoning progression techniques: you walk through underground chambers, cross fixed sections and rope traverses with a helmet, harness and head…

Under the ground

NarniAdventures: rope bridges and a zip line in a 13th-century cistern

Inside the Lacus, a vaulted thirteenth-century room under Piazza Garibaldi, an indoor adventure course with rope bridges, a zip line and an artificial climbing wall, built with …

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Under the ground

Bunker Soratte: two hours inside Mussolini's mountain

Guided visit to the tunnels dug into Monte Soratte from 1937, later used as a German command post and then adapted as an atomic shelter.

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Under the ground

Catacomb of Santa Cristina, Bolsena

An underground early-Christian cemetery cut into the tuff beneath the basilica, with roughly 1,600 burials used between the third and fifth centuries.

Under the ground

Under Orte: an Etruscan-Roman aqueduct, a medieval dovecote and a snow well

The tourist office of Orte runs guided descents into the tunnels under the old town: the Etruscan-Roman aqueduct, the medieval dovecote and the snow well, and on the third weeke…

Under the ground

St Patrick's Well: two spiral staircases that never meet

A sixteenth-century well sunk into the tufa cliff, with two helical staircases built one above the other so that pack animals going down never crossed those coming up.

Under the ground

Roman 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.

Under the ground

The Pozzo d'Antullo sinkhole at Collepardo

A viewing visit to a karst sinkhole about 60 metres deep and roughly 300 metres wide, formed when the roof of a cave collapsed.

Under the ground

The Anagni cathedral museum and the crypt of San Magno

A guided visit to the cathedral of Santa Maria Annunziata at Anagni and its museum: the chapter library, the old treasury, the Caetani chapel, the oratory of Saint Thomas Becket…

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.