Looking for a good place to stay on your drive north to Tuscany or the night before your flight out of Rome?
Sergio Mottura and his family's Porcupine Lair offers simple accommodations, a good restaurant and their own wines.
The hotel is situated in a medieval manor house, restored in the sixteenth century. It lies in the heart of Civitella d'Agliano, a small agricultural center located between Orvieto and Viterbo. Civitella developed around the original medieval village, founded about 1026. The medieval watch-tower overlooks the central square and the hotel. The Mottura family welcomes you to stay, eat and drink with them before exploring the culture of the Lazio area or before you depart from Rome.
La Tana dell�Istrice
Piazza Unit� d�Italia, 12
01020 Civitella d'Agliano (VT)
Lazio
p.+(0761)-914-501
f. +(0761)-914-815
The distance from Civitella d'Agliano to Aeroporto Roma-Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci is 135 km and will take approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Directions from Sergio to La Tana dell�Istrice:
COMING FROM NORTH:
If you are driving the via Cassia, when you reach Bolsena lake then drive in the direction of Bagnoregio. Turn right in the direction of Viterbo and keep this direction. After approx. 4 km. you will find a sign indicating 10 km to Civitella on your left. You will pass the sign "Vetriolo" then you find Civitella d�Agliano.
If you come via A1 motorway, exit at Orvieto and take a left in the direction of "Todi", "Castiglione in Teverina" etc. After 1 km. you will find a brown sign "La Tana dell�Istrice", turn right under the railway bridge, direction "Castiglione in Teverina" again, after 7 km. you find a large crossroad: proceed straight on to "Castiglione in Teverina", "Civitella d�Agliano". In 3 km. you get to Castiglione, where you will find the sign for Civitella straight on. After 5 km. turn right at the crossroad and you will reach Civitella in 6 km.
COMING FROM SOUTH:
From Rome Fiumicino airport take the A1 highway direction Florence/Milano, exit at ATTIGLIANO turn left direction VITERBO/BOMARZO. After 2 Km. and having passed a bridge over the Tiber river, take the first large street on your right following the signs to ALVIANO, ORVIETO, BAGNOREGIO, CIVITELLA D'AGLIANO and proceed until the sign to ORVIETO/CASTIGLIONE IN TEVERINA at the following crossroad. Drive in the direction of Castiglione, then you will arrive at another crossroad with a STOP sign and signs to CIVITELLA D'AGLIANO on your left. Drive for 6 Km. and you will reach Civitella d'Agliano. From the main square follow the signs and you will reach the hotel. Note: To get to the hotel you must drive through a very narrow arch on a steep slope; the best way to approach this is to keep your left wheel on the stone track you will see on the street.
La Tana dell�Istrice is near the magical village of Civita Bagnoregio.
The tiny village of Civita clings precariously to its rock outcropping. Once connected to Bagnor�gio by a wooden bridge, destroyed during War War II, its magical valley is now traversed by a steep iron bridge which allows only foot traffic and the mopeds of local residents to cross into the extraordinary ambience of this unique hilltown.
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