Ciampino was born with flight: the "G.B. Pastine" airport, opened in 1916 for airships — Umberto Nobile's Italy set off from here — is among the world's oldest still-operating airfields, and watched twentieth-century history land before becoming Rome's low-cost gateway. The town, an independent municipality since 1974, grew around tracks and flight paths.
Among the plain's surviving vineyards and the villas of the hills, the threshold vocation remains: Rome on one side, the Castelli on the other. Those landing here have the Appia Antica ten minutes away: few notice, and it's a pity.
Near Ciampino
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
