A sagra is a festival, usually centered around a local delicacy. You can have sagre for porcini mushrooms, gnocchi, beer, lavender… but the sagra I most wanted to go near Rome is the sagra della fragole- the Nemi strawberry festival. With a fearless (and manual-transmission trained) fellow explorer, we navigated the strange world of Italian car […]
Category Archives: Day Trips from Rome
02
Jun
Jun
The spring has been so strange, with thunderstorms and freezing winds marking the first day of June. So you’ll just have to trust me when I say that sometimes when the weather is hot you get a nagging urge to leave Rome for the day. One such place to skip off to is the ancient […]
22
Jul
Jul
If you’ve already explored Orvieto, Spoleto is a quieter town, a bit farther off tourist maps. For 8 euro, you can catch a train from Termini and be in this small town in Perugia in just a little over an hour. First things first: eat. We ducked into Osteria dell’Enoteca and ordered the house bruschetta […]
13
May
May
A girl can only take so much of Rome’s noise before the urge to spend a Sunday outside of the city begins to take hold. An old stand by for an easy day trip from Rome is Orvieto. The Umbrian hilltop town is a short train ride away and offers a completely different feel from […]
25
Mar
Mar
I love Naples. Sometimes Rome pretends to be a little fancy-pants, when it is in fact a little bit insane. There is none of that in Naples. Naples is straight-up unapologetic, in-your-face chaos. I was in Naples this time last year, on Palm Sunday, and it seemed to be a free for all. The shops […]
26
Oct
Oct
Let me start out by saying that most people would not try to do Pisa in one day from Rome. Luckily, we are not most people and were crazy enough to catch the 6:15 am Sunday train to Pisa. One good thing about taking a four-hour train ride at 6:15 on Sunday morning is that […]
30
Mar
Mar
In keeping with the Rome-free Sundays, this week we hopped on the train to Bracciano. Bracciano is a small hilltop town in Lazio that overlooks (you guessed it) Lake Bracciano. We got off the train and I proudly announced: “Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes got married here at that castle. There. That’s the extent of […]
28
Mar
Mar
I am not a city girl. I find cities overwhelming most of the time. While I love all of the events to choose from and events to attend, I dislike most of the day-to-day realities of city life. The packed metros, pushy bus riders, angry postal clients, inexplicably closed administrative offices. So every week I […]