Our studio, workshop, and store are located in Calcata, a medieval village in the middle of a Natural Park with woodland, waterfalls and stone outcrops. An old house has been completely restored to house the design studio, and opposite this another has been transformed into the show room.

CALCATA
A little village perched atop volcanic tufa cliffs in the middle of the Valle del Treja, the river that has carved green canyons into the countryside north of Rome. Calcata is surrounded by the Valle del Treja Regional Park, where further building is forbidden.

History
Calcata has almost three thousand years of history, and traces of human presence date from prehistoric times. In one of the cliffs facing Calcata you can still see signs of the Faliscan and Etruscan civilisations. Enduring as a sacred site as well as trading point, in Roman times the fertility of the surrounding countryside permitted the construction of numerous villas.
The name Calcata appears for the first time in a document dating from the Eighth Century, under the pontificate of Adrian I (772-795). The territory came into the possession of the Anguillara nobles, who built the castle at Calcata (end of the Thirteenth Century) as well as defensive walls, both of which have been restored in the last two years.

Calcata abandoned
The original inhabitants of Calcata began to abandon the medieval village before the second world war because of frequent collapses of parts of the cliff-face but above all because of bad living conditions, and laid the foundations of a new settlement two kilometres away to which most of them moved in the 1960s.

A new life
During these years the village, instead of depopulating, Calcata began a new life as an alternative to the city and an ideal place for artists to work and live.
The tufa houses of old Calcata filled with artists and intellectuals who restored it bringing new light to the village. Old vegetable patches became gardens, natural art galleries or open-air workshops.

What to do in Calcata
Calcata offers art galleries, craft workshops, shops, six restaurants, a vegetarian club, a very well stocked tea rooms and several Bed & Breakfasts.
You can go for gentle walks in the woods or follow trekking paths along the Via Narcese to Civita Castellana, 15km away.
You can visit the Monte Gelato waterfalls 5 Km away.
You can tour the numerous medieval villages in the surrounding area.
20 minutes away by car there are two lakes, both beautiful and with facilities such as sailing, wind surfing and pedal boats.

How to get to Calcata
By car:
From Rome you can follow the via Flaminia as far as Rignano Flaminio, turning left towards the railway station onto the via Calcatese which goes through the village of Faleria. Continuing towards Mazzano, leaving Calcata Nuova on your right, you reach Calcata Vecchia.
From the via Cassia, exit at the 35th Km at Settevene and take the turning to Mazzano Romano and Calcata, 12 Km away.
From the A1 motorway:
exit at Magliano Sabina and take the via Flaminia towards Rignano Flamino, and from here the turning for Calcata.
By bus:
Cotral bus lines run from Roma Ottaviano and Saxa Rubra.
By train:
Take the Cotral Roma - Viterbo line from Piazzale Flaminio and get off at Rignano Flaminio. From here take the Cotral bus for Faleria-Calcata.

Find out more about Calcata: www.calcata.info