Villages near Rome, for a day out

Lazio, the region around Rome, has hundreds of small towns: hilltop villages, lakes in old volcanoes, Etruscan tombs, medieval abbeys. Fuoriporta has information on 377 of them, and 376 have a page in English with how to get there from Rome, by car or by regional bus, what to see and the villages nearby.

• Day trips from RomeThe least-known villages within an hour and a half by car, and the ones with a direct bus.
• Lazio without a carEvery village you can reach by COTRAL bus, with the stop and the times.
• Lazio off the beaten path: hidden villages beyond RomeA longer read on the region beyond Rome.

Everything else, from village festivals to the hour-by-hour day planner, is in Italian: go to the Italian site