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Trekking in the footsteps of bandits, cycling tastings, olive oil mills, cooking classes, artisan workshops: twelve things to do with your hands, your legs, or your palate.
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Trails, wine, cuisine, crafts
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San Donato Val di Comino
In just a few kilometers, you can go from a cooking class to a beech forest, from a winery to a pasture. Here's where to start.
Trekking
A five-hour trek through the Forca d'Acero beech forest, stopping at the Grotta dei Briganti (Brigands' Cave) and its relict maples. You'll journey through the history of banditry and the struggle for Italian unification.
It's not a walk in the woods with a suggestive name: it's the most direct way to understand what this territory reminds us of.
Fall
In autumn, the Forca d'Acero beech forest turns red and gold. The San Donato portal presents it with a simple title: A Journey Through the Colors of Nature.
This is the ideal outing for those who love the light, the woods, and a slow pace: photographers, couples, and leisurely walkers.
Wine on a bike
On the wine trails of the Comino Valley: about 5 hours of cycling through vineyards and villages, including a visit to Picinisco and tastings of local wines and products.
You traverse the land instead of just looking at it. The winery itineraries include Alvito, San Donato, Settefrati, Picinisco, Villa Latina, Atina, and Gallinaro.
E-bike
Approximately 6 hours of guided e-bike tours through Alvito, San Donato Val di Comino, and Picinisco, with a stop at a winery and tastings of Cabernet and Pecorino di Picinisco.
The pedal-assist gives you the freedom to see: more places in one day, without the effort of an athlete.
Oil
Two ways to understand San Donato olive oil. From olive to oil: a visit to the mill and tasting, tied to the Marina olive harvest. Discovering the Gold of San Donato: a cycling tasting among the olive trees, to learn about the Marina olive and its extra virgin olive oil.
Here the product is never separated from the landscape: it grows in the same countryside you cross to get there.
Wine
Wine tourism is one of the valley's strongest assets: wineries, guided tastings, and rural landscapes.
The proposals have precise names: Tasting of wines and flavours, and In the rows of Cabernet di Atina DOC and Maturano.
Choose the ones you're interested in and stay in the center of San Donato. Let us know your dates: we'll get back to you with availability, total price, and terms.
Kitchen
Gnocchi Thursday, a cooking class with Ficcanaso, is the most recognizable cooking experience on the San Donato portal. Then there's the Authentic Pizza Class, with secret dough and San Marzano tomatoes.
You don't just sit back and watch: you knead the dough, watch it happen, and take home a recipe. It's perfect for couples, small groups, and international guests.
Professions
Two options in San Donato: a workshop with the Master of San Donato, dedicated to the art of stonecutting, and a day at the forge, where you can create a wrought iron object.
At the stonemason's, you see and use the same tools as ever; in the forge, hot iron is worked. Stone, iron, hands: a memory you can take home with you.
Sheep farming
Milk and its transformations are linked to the farms of the Comino Valley: they follow Pecorino di Picinisco DOP, Marzolina, mozzarella and other cheeses.
Sheep farming is one of the foundations of the valley's landscape and economy. This is also reflected in the Pastorizia in Festival event in Picinisco.
In the company
You meet the animals, look at the pasture, witness the cheese being made and taste it.
The program includes freshly milked milk and freshly curdled cheese.
Outdoor
Picinisco is the gateway to the more open and mountainous side of the valley. Local attractions include trekking to Prati di Mezzo, itineraries up to Monte Meta, mountain biking, horseback riding, canyoning, ski mountaineering, and snowshoeing, with possible encounters with deer, Apennine chamois, and golden eagles.
The day begins among the stone houses and ends on high-altitude trails. In spring and summer, you can walk and cycle; in autumn, the light is at its best; in winter, snow and silence.
Photo
Portraits amidst alleyways and postcard-perfect views: a professional photographer will accompany you through centuries-old alleys, squares, and valley views, creating images of your journey.
It's for couples, creators, solo travelers, families, and anyone who wants to mark an occasion. Viewing the village with a photographer means seeing it more slowly.
With San Donato as its base, the Rifugio dei Briganti keeps you in the village and puts you just minutes from the starting point of many of these experiences: Forca d'Acero, the cellars, the oil mills, the workshops, the farms.
The answers to the questions you ask us most often.
Trekking in the Forca d'Acero beech forest on the trail of bandits, cycle tastings and e-bike tours, visits to the oil mill, wine tastings, cooking classes, artisan workshops and the Pecorino di Picinisco companies.
The On the Wine Roads cycle-tasting tour (about 5 hours), the wine and cheese tasting tour (about 6 hours) and the cycle-tasting dedicated to the Marina olive.
Yes: From Olive to Oil includes a visit to the oil mill and tasting, related to the Marina olive harvest.
Guided tastings and winery tours, including tours of Cabernet di Atina DOC and Maturano.
In the historic center of San Donato Val di Comino, at the Rifugio dei Briganti: from here, you can set off for Forca d'Acero, the cellars, the workshops, and the rest of the valley.
Please let us know your dates and number of guests. We'll get back to you with availability, total, and terms.
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