Day trips

Day trips from Roma

33 towns within 90 minutes

Closest first. Tivoli is 31 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.

Tivoli
Province: Roma · 235 m
31 minutes from Roma. A travertine town on the Aniene falls twenty-five kilometers east of Rome, holding two separate UNESCO sites: Hadrian's villa below and the Villa d'Este above.
Castel Gandolfo
Province: Roma · 426 m
35 minutes from Roma. A papal town on the rim of Lake Albano's volcanic crater, summer residence of the popes since 1626.
Castelnuovo di Porto
Province: Roma · 250 m
37 minutes from Roma. A tufa-ridge borgo twenty-five kilometers north of Rome inside the Parco di Veio, dominated by a Renaissance fortress above the Tiber valley.
Ariccia
Province: Roma · 412 m
41 minutes from Roma. The Castelli Romani town where a single Baroque architect's ensemble sits on a volcanic crater rim above Rome, and Saturday lunch means porchetta.
Anguillara Sabazia
Province: Roma · 195 m
50 minutes from Roma. A medieval cape town jutting into Lake Bracciano, twenty-five kilometers from Rome, built above a 5700 BC Neolithic lakeshore village.
Cerveteri
Province: Roma · 81 m
50 minutes from Roma. An Etruscan capital seven kilometers inland from the Tyrrhenian coast, with the Banditaccia necropolis holding 1,000 tombs in the largest ancient cemetery in the Mediterranean.
Nemi
Province: Roma · 521 m
52 minutes from Roma. The smallest comune in the Castelli Romani, perched at 521 meters above a volcanic crater lake the Romans called the mirror of Diana.
Percile
Province: Roma · 575 m
54 minutes from Roma. A 219-person medieval borgo at 575 meters, built on a rocky spur with two karst lakes hidden in the woods above it.
Anagni
Province: Frosinone · 424 m
55 minutes from Roma. The hill town in Ciociaria where a September 1303 assault on a reigning pope inside his own palace ended the medieval claim to papal supremacy.
Castel San Pietro Romano
Province: Roma · 763 m
57 minutes from Roma. A 763-meter hill village above Palestrina, built on the acropolis of ancient Praeneste and inside the Colonna fortress walls.
Sutri
Province: Viterbo · 291 m
57 minutes from Roma. An Etruscan and Roman town on a tuff spur, with a rock-cut amphitheater carved straight from the volcanic stone of the Cimini.
Trevignano Romano
Province: Roma · 173 m
57 minutes from Roma. A volcanic-crater lake town on the northern shore of Bracciano, thirty-five kilometers from Rome, with a medieval rocca above the water.
Bracciano
Province: Roma · 280 m
58 minutes from Roma. The Lazio lake town with the eighth-largest lake in Italy below it and one of the best-preserved Renaissance castles in the country above it.
Velletri
Province: Roma · 332 m
59 minutes from Roma. The Castelli Romani town where Augustus grew up, now the largest wine commune of its hills.
Orvinio
Province: Rieti · 840 m
60 minutes from Roma. The highest borgo in the Monti Lucretili park at 840 meters, called Canemorto until 1863.
Magliano Sabina
Province: Rieti · 222 m
62 minutes from Roma. A 222-meter Sabine town on a Tiber terrace, cathedral seat of the Sabina diocese on the Lazio-Umbria border.
Casperia
Province: Rieti · 397 m
64 minutes from Roma. A Sabina hill village named Aspra in Virgil's Aeneid, called that until 1947, ringed by walls from 1282.
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Ronciglione
Province: Viterbo · 441 m
64 minutes from Roma. A tufa-brick borgo above Lake Vico, fortified by the Prefects of Vico and crowned Borgo dei Borghi in 2023.
Collalto Sabino
Province: Rieti · 980 m
65 minutes from Roma. A 980-meter Sabine borgo dominated by a Barberini baronial castle, with a 360-degree panorama from the keep.
Calcata
Province: Viterbo · 220 m
68 minutes from Roma. A tufa-cliff village forty kilometers north of Rome, condemned and abandoned in the 1930s, then occupied by artists and never left.
Canale Monterano
Province: Roma · 376 m
70 minutes from Roma. A hilltop village next to the burned ghost town of Monterano, where a roofless Baroque church and fountain still stand.
Capranica Prenestina
Province: Roma · 915 m
70 minutes from Roma. A 915-meter ridge village east of Rome, with a sanctuary above the Giovenzano valley at 1,018 meters.
Caprarola
Province: Viterbo · 510 m
70 minutes from Roma. A Cimini hill town above Lago di Vico, dominated by the pentagonal Villa Farnese that Vignola built for the Farnese cardinals between 1559 and 1573.
Subiaco
Province: Roma · 408 m
70 minutes from Roma. The Aniene valley town where Benedict spent three years in a cliff cave, and where Italy's first printed book appeared in 1465.
Bassano in Teverina
Province: Viterbo · 304 m
71 minutes from Roma. A tufa-spur borgo of 1,260 above the Tiber valley between Lazio and Umbria, with a clock tower that hides an eleventh-century animated bell tower.
Capranica
Province: Viterbo · 370 m
72 minutes from Roma. A medieval hill town on the old Via Cassia, taken by the Anguillara family in 1305 and remembered as the place Petrarch stayed in 1337.
Castel di Tora
Province: Rieti · 607 m
73 minutes from Roma. A village of 266 on Lago del Turano at 607 meters, with an eleventh-century polygonal tower and a ghost promontory called Antuni.
Fiuggi
Province: Frosinone · 747 m
74 minutes from Roma. The Ernici-mountain thermal town where Boniface VIII and Michelangelo both came to dissolve kidney stones with the oligomineral spring water.
Oriolo Romano
Province: Viterbo · 420 m
75 minutes from Roma. A planned sixteenth-century village in the Sabatini hills, laid out in 1560 by a Santacroce nobleman on land cleared from an ancient beech wood.
Tarquinia
Province: Viterbo · 133 m
77 minutes from Roma. An Etruscan capital on a Maremma ridge whose 6,000 rock-cut tombs at Monterozzi hold the largest body of pre-Roman painting in the Mediterranean.
Bomarzo
Province: Viterbo · 263 m
79 minutes from Roma. The Tuscia village below a garden built by a grieving condottiero for his dead wife, all stone monsters and no apology for it.
Boville Ernica
Province: Frosinone · 450 m
86 minutes from Roma. A Ciociaria hilltop town with eighteen intact medieval towers, ringed by a walled circuit that has stood since the tenth century.
Vitorchiano
Province: Viterbo · 285 m
88 minutes from Roma. A peperino borgo built on a single volcanic boulder near Viterbo.

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