My husband and I found super cheap tickets to Rome for the first week of March- we’d like to get away from the large city and land somewhere wonderful for our week- thinking a 1-2 hr train ride away.
Any suggestions??
Posted by
Gettysburg PA
7245 posts
Orvieto is lovely
About an hour from Rome
Posted by
lake park, georgia, usa
86 posts
orvieto for sure, Another world compared to Rome. Also consider Ostia. we stayed there for 3 days before going into rome. extremely close to fiumacino airport. great ruins, great seaside, nice little village and a short -although semi dangerous (lots of pickpockets)- trainride to Rome.
Posted by
WA State
3961 posts
Another nod for Orvieto! Lovely town.
Posted by
Washington DC
28255 posts
Orvieto is not only beautiful, it has a lot of quality sights. Rick covers it in his guide to Italy. I have the impression it's a popular weekend getaway for Romans (though I don't know about March), so you may find it busier on the weekends than midweek; it is definitely not undiscovered. It seems to have its share of good restaurants (the Italian visitors would insist on quality); for a stay of a week, it would definitely be worth doing a bit of pre-trip research on that topic.
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755 posts
We enjoyed staying in quiet little Chiusi and doing day trips to Orvieto and Cortona and other busy towns via train.