Top Things to do in Castelli Romani
The 10 Best Hidden Gems Things to do in Castelli Romani, Lazio
Discover the best top things to do in Castelli Romani, Italy including Old Frascati Food & Wine, Aviator Paintball Park, Azienda Biologica De Sanctis, Mentalmente Escape Room, Minardi Frascati Winery - Antico Casale Minardi, Abbazia Greca di San Nilo, Cantina da Santino, Lago di Nemi, Cisternone, Lake Albano.
Restaurants in Castelli Romani
1. Old Frascati Food & Wine
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 341 reviews
Discover all the best Frascati has to offer from its charming city center, beautiful views and vineyards, a historic family-run winery, and fresh local cuisine. Our wine and food tours near Rome will stimulate your senses and rejuvenate your spirit. Starting at 55 euro a person for our half-day wine & food tours, including everything.
2. Aviator Paintball Park
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 40 reviews
Aviator Paintball Park is an outdoor paintball field located near Rome, you are sure to have a good time every time. Paintball is the perfect way to get a group of friends together for an action packed day in the outdoors. Its great for company outings, bachelor parties, camps, schools, scouts or any organized group. Private games can be booked for a minimum of 8 people.
3. Azienda Biologica De Sanctis
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 23 reviews
4. Mentalmente Escape Room
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5.0 based on 557 reviews
5. Minardi Frascati Winery - Antico Casale Minardi
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5.0 based on 139 reviews
While in Rome, take your chance to experience one-of-a-kind Guided Wine Tours of one of the famous Frascati Wine vineyards! You will also have a chance to enjoy a fun Pasta Making Class or Pizza class with our traditional Chef! Or a nice horseback riding experience with a qualified instructor in our Ranch! Here, at the Minardi Historic Winery, or Antico Casale Minardi, you will taste genuine wines and olive oil, as well as delicious Italian food! The Farmhouse has a beautiful deck overlooking Rome and an original wine tasting room linked with the old cellar. Wine Tours and Pasta or Pizza Making Classes upon booking! Organization of events, parties and Country Weddings!
Reviewed By 570graceh
WOW! What an experience, I found Minardi wine tours on trip advisor, Alfredo was incredibly quick to respond and accommodating for our groups specific dietary requirements and tight timings. Max - our host around Frisanti - is such a character! and very knowledgeable of this beautiful historical town where we got to try local bread and wine. After a short while walking round the town, we were picked up and taken on the short journey to the vineyard which absolutely takes your breath away, and is steeped in family history. Alfredo’s father showed us around and it was amazing to hear from a 9th generation wine maker. He was incredibly passionate and had many stories to tell! We then tried the families’ DOCG white wine and local olive oil with bread in the wine ‘museum’ which led into a 4 course tasting menu with matching wine - all of which was exceptional - hats off to Luigi the chef who also has a hidden operatic singing talent which we were lucky enough to witness as this experience was booked for my birthday! Luigi and Alfredo surprised us with a piano and operatic show and it was just fabulous. Thank you to you all - you made our final night in Italy a night we will never forget.
6. Abbazia Greca di San Nilo
7. Cantina da Santino
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 45 reviews
Reviewed By polomartin8519 - Paris, France
Cozy place with communal tables and cheap homemade wine. Stopped by for a quick drink and was met with the friendly owner who was watching TV. He didn't speak English, but poured me a glass of his white wine and let me chill. Wine was good, and he claimed that it was local. Some people dropped by and chatted with him. At the end, it was only €2.50. When night drops, he takes out some tables and chairs to chill outside.
8. Lago di Nemi
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4.5 based on 511 reviews
Reviewed By renatapN6159KV - Rome, Italy
Nemi is for sure one of the most suggestive villages in Lazio. This village, one of the 16 Roman Castles, is known throughout the world for the beauty of its landscapes and for the strawberry festival held every year on the first sunday in June. In that occasion thousands of tourists come from every part of the world. Nemi is loved by couples , by families and by groups of friends. It' s the perfect place to have a rest, to relax , to spend a holidays period and to admire the sunset. Here the temperature is fresh and pleasant at any time of the year, particularly in summer.
9. Cisternone
10. Lake Albano
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 416 reviews
Reviewed By F12MPpeters - Rome, Italy
Lago Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Lazio Lago Albano is a small volcanic lake 20 km south of Rome; it’s also the most spectacular geological feature in Lazio this close to the city. Take time from your holiday itinerary and delight in the pleasures of a day out – vista/beach/water/forest/restaurant. Like just about everything in life – it’s what you make of it; this thing about appreciating the people, places and times that impact. Sit on a rock next to Lago Albano of an early morning, and listen to the quietness of the trees/forest around you; take your swim togs and, after a comfortable walk around the lake, get into the water and swim 500 m towards the centre of the lake; tread water and take in the steep crater walls around you; put your head under and swim down a couple of metres; wear swim-goggles and you can see the light above you. Imagine that space beneath you (170 m deep). You can see why the ancients delighted in leaving the heat of the city in summer for the hills around them – modern people too. After a catastrophic splurge with water over-flowing the crater wall and flooding the surrounding countryside (around 400 BCE), the Ancient Romans controlled the level of the lake by building 1,200 m tunnel through the surrounding wall (and discharging beneath what is now Castel Gandolfo). It was fed by an over-flow/chute and remains in working order to this day (and this notwithstanding 3-4 m fall in lake level during the past 50 years). You’ll find it easier to get to the lake if you have a car – 40 minutes on the Via Appia Nuova; parking is easy wherever you are, although you pay by the hour if you remain around the beach end of the lake. There’s also that suburban rail line that skirts the lake and climbs up to Castel Gandolfo Town. Catch the train from Roma Termini. That’s what we did en famille just on 30 years back – our first time to the lake. For the past 10 years or so, a small group of us have been walking the trails around the lake once/week – social walking. This thing about the dynamics of life then – once there were a regular four (more sometimes), but this time there were just the two of us. With the mid-30sdegC heat of mid-year we’ve remained largely beneath the trees. We did the much the same last week. Started at around 08.30 close to Villa Giulia below Via delle Spiaggia del Lago. Rain from the previous night had moistened the undergrowth and there were puddles in the depressions. Easy walking then with the air fresh and moist; the sort of conditions in which you quickly develop a rhythm that would enable you to walk to the ends of the Earth (or so we tell ourselves – when starting out; later it’s the prospect of that cold drink/lunch that encourages you on.). Lago Albano has a surface area 6 km2 and it’s completely enveloped by a circular 250 m wall. A loop around the lake is about 10 km – so, about three hours walking. Begin early and catch the sun across the lip of the rim as it impacts the white facade of Castel Gandolfo Town across the lake (the Pope's original summer residence from days long passed). There are others there too – you’ll bump into around 50 people - joggers, ramblers, dog-walkers and trail bikkies - you have to watch the latter - they creep up on you fast and don't tend to give way. Hmmm We've generally walked the lower trails along the lake side given that's where you find the most shade, but if you scale the wall to reach the upper walking trails you’ll get this spectacular view across to Castel Gandolfo and to the recreational end of the lake where there are beaches and more. The rim is also where you’ll find those strategically-placed restaurants that provide an ‘eating table with a world class view’. It’s the beaches that provide all those tourist services, however, with restaurants and more to suit all tastes/budgets. Peter Steele Rome 12 August 2018
