You will receive a key and comprehensive directions in the post at least a week before you travel. Please advise us if you need the key earlier.

The directions information will tell you how to get to Capena by car or public transport, where to find the local swimming pools and the best way to travel to Rome for a day out, plus the specific directions to your apartment, which are also shown below.

The keys can also be obtained from Pucci Ligresti (who lives nearby and speaks English), phone (0039) 06 9037 5066 (note that the zero is not omitted after the international code when dialling Italian numbers) or mobile (0039) 327 4449 951. Please also contact Pucci if you have any enquiries during your stay.

If you’re intending to hire a car, it’s best to do this when you arrive at the airport. All the major car hire firms are represented at both Leonardo da Vinci (Fiumicino) and Ciampino airports.

For a separate charge, a Capena-based taxi can be arranged to pick you up from the airport or Monterotondo station, and take you back at the end of your stay. Full details are included in your welcome pack, or you can contact us for more information.

RAC route planner

Bus timetable (PDF)

Directions to Casa Galilei
Address: Via Galileo Galilei snc, 00060 Capena, Roma ("snc" stands for senza numero civico – or no street number)

Follow Via IV Novembre into Via Cecconi, down Via Matteotti into the old village and turn left into Via Marconi at the fountain (see the map at the bottom of the Maps page). At the end of Via Marconi you will enter Piazza del Popolo. Drive through this square and up Via Silla where you can park the car in a marked parking space. Be careful to park in a a marked space or it may be towed away.

Alternatively, you can turn round at this point and follow Via Cristoforo Colombo (the steep track skirting the west side of the monastery building, with the valley on your right) about 100m to park outside the lower entrance to the house. The house is the first you come to on the left. You can’t miss it because it has obviously been newly restored and it is accessible up a steep flight of steps to the door. Use the track for loading and unloading. At present, it is then preferable to drive back up the track and find a parking space in Via Silla. In the long-term, car parks will be built in the valley to the west of the square so it can be pedestrianised and this will also ease the parking situation for Casa Gallilei.

Top entrance to the house: walk up the main stairway to the main entrance of the old monastery building. Continue up the stairs inside and you will emerge in the medieval village. Walk straight ahead through the arch and then turn right towards the valley and walk down to the very bottom of the stairs, ignoring the doorway on your left. You will find two doorways and Casa Galilei's is the one on the right.

Directions to Casa Marconi
Address: Via Guglielmo Marconi 21, 00060 Capena, Roma

Follow Via IV Novembre into Via Cecconi, down Via Matteotti into the old village and turn left into Via Marconi at the fountain (see the map at the bottom of the Maps page). You cannot park right outside the house because it is on a narrow alleyway but you should be able to find a parking place not far away.