Borgo di Tragliata wedding

Borgo di Tragliata stands on a buttress of tufa above the Roman countryside, at the far western edge of the city’s territory, in the comune of Fiumicino.

People have lived on this rock since the Etruscans, whose wall blocks and funnel-shaped granaries still survive. The hamlet was fortified in the ninth century, with a watchtower against Saracen raids that is now part of the central building. Two churches stand inside it, one medieval and one Baroque, and the Baroque one, Sant’Isidoro Agricola, still marries couples.

In 1917 Domenico Lanza took the estate from the Chapter of St Peter’s, and in 1944 he bought it outright.

His great-grandson, Andrea del Gallo di Roccagiovine, owns it today. The farm around the hamlet is certified organic, and the honey, the vegetables and the sausages at the welcome barbecue come off it.

A Borgo di Tragliata wedding is three days long by design, and each day happens in a different part of the hamlet: the barbecue in one garden, the wedding in another, the farewell in the courtyard of the bar.

The eighteenth-century church sits inside the old hamlet, so a Catholic ceremony needs no transport at all. The guests walk from the church to the aperitivo.

The civil or symbolic ceremony happens in the gardens, with the mayor of Fiumicino coming to the borgo for a legal one. The chairs, the shade and the celebrant’s table come with the garden.

The larger of the two reception spaces, seating 250 indoors or out, with a view across the valley to Sant’Isidoro and its own pool alongside. We recommend it for any wedding over 150.

The Cantina del Borgo, in the oldest part of the hamlet next to the church, holds the banqueting hall for 200 and a terrace over the countryside. For a wedding of 100 to 150 it is the warmer room of the two.

An old barn with a full bar, where the party starts at half past ten and runs until three.

The heart of the hamlet, a courtyard bar with a games room, where the farewell pizza party is held on the third night.

A Borgo di Tragliata wedding starts from €150,000, and for optimal results we recommend budgeting €250,000 all-in for 100 to 200 guests.

The borgo prices everything per head, and the wedding menu falls as the guest count rises: just over €200 a head for a small wedding, just under €160 for a large one, VAT included. The welcome barbecue and the pizza party are priced separately, and rooms are €80 a guest a night with breakfast.

The wedding day is a Tuesday or a Friday, so the three-night pattern holds for every group, and winter dates, from November to March, are priced lower.

The aperitivo, two pasta courses, a main, the cake and the dessert buffet, with wine, beer and prosecco poured from the aperitivo to the cake. The tablecloths, the candles and lanterns, the couple’s suite for three nights and the borgo’s sound system come with it.

The open bar after the cake, the flowers, the band, the photographers, the lighting design and the transfers. Those are where the gap between the borgo’s figures and the all-in figure goes.

Borgo di Tragliata has 75 bedrooms and 16 apartments, sleeping 200, in the two farmhouses and the old buildings of the hamlet.

Three nights are part of every wedding from April to October: the night before, the wedding night and the night after. Rooms are €80 a guest a night with breakfast, and children under twelve sharing a room stay free.

The borgo is not taken whole, but the wedding has sole use of its own space on the day. The bar, the two pools and the breakfast room stay open to other guests, and another event can run during the stay.

We block every room the borgo will release, from the first contract, so the wedding fills the hamlet.

For a guest list over 200, the borgo’s sister estate, Casale Doria Pamphilj, is ten minutes away under the same management and adds 80 beds. It releases them only three months before the date, because it holds its own events, so we hold hotels in Rome as the fallback.

The borgo is at the end of the Via del Casale di Tragliata, in open farmland between Rome and the sea, in the comune of Fiumicino.

Piazza Venezia is 42 minutes by road and St Peter’s 38. Fregene and the beach are 27 minutes away, and Bracciano and its lake 26.

Rome Fiumicino airport is 29 minutes away, with direct flights from the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, which makes the borgo one of the easiest arrivals anywhere near Rome. Ciampino is 45 minutes.

Taxis are scarce this far into the countryside.

We run every arrival and departure by coach or minivan, timed to the flights, and a shuttle into Rome on the free day.

The borgo runs its weddings to a set three-day timetable, and the work is in shaping a wedding inside it.

The diocese sets the church calendar.

There are no church weddings in Lent, in November, in the week either side of 15 August or on a Sunday. A Catholic wedding is dated against that calendar before anything else.

Friday is the day to take.

A Friday wedding needs 120 adults and a Tuesday 100. For most of our guest lists Friday is the natural day, with the free day after the wedding falling on a Saturday for Rome or the beach.

Shared spaces shape the weekend.

Other guests use the pools and the bar, so we keep the wedding’s own moments in the space it holds for the day, and plan the free day off the estate, in Rome or on the beach at Fregene.

The Theatre is the late-night answer.

The party moves into the barn at half past ten and the bar closes at three. We build the band and the DJ around that move, and keep the garden for the cake and the fireworks.

Magic Day plans weddings at Borgo di Tragliata from the first conversation to the final farewell, for 100 guests or for 250. The borgo provides its gardens, its halls, its church, its rooms and its kitchen across three days, and it runs them to a set timetable. Everything that makes the wedding look and sound like the couple’s own falls to the planner: the design, the flowers, the band, the lighting, the photographers and the transfers from Fiumicino and Rome.

What we know from working the borgo is how its pieces fit. The Massello for anything over 150, a Friday rather than a Tuesday, the free day spent off the estate, and the Theatre at half past ten. We also know the diocese’s calendar, and that Casale Doria Pamphilj’s 80 beds arrive only three months out.

Tell us the dates you are considering and how many people are coming, and we will tell you what the three days come to.