ROME AREA VITERBO and
LATINA
SPERLONGA FIUGGI SABAUDIA
WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO BEAR & CHUBBY CHASERS
Pza Manfredo Fanti 40
bar (opened in august 2002) near central Station "Termini" (Vittorio Metro stop). Bar, Darkroom and good feelings ;). The only bar in Rome where people have sex at the bar too (in the deep night...)
Saturday is the bear and admirers nights, and EURO http://www.epicentroursino.com organize here the bear parties every month (last sat of every month, check their site for next events!)
ArciOne card required (you can buy it at the Sphinx too). Leather Club Rome have his party here monthly every second saturday (not in the summer) , bear friendly party but do not forget the DressCode! (take a look at the LCRoma site
K mens Club via Amato Amati 6, infoline phone 0347-6220462 - Some say it's a kind of dry sauna... Others say it resembles Monte Caprino (see.)... It's kind of a jack-off place. ! Bruce (from Usa) said "It is like what we call a SEX CLUB in the USA. It isn't just a JACK OFF CLUB, as much more than jacking off goes on. You don't take off your clothes, so it is more of a "stand up, drop your pants and take off your shirt" type of place."
Skyline (closed on mon) via degli Aurunci 26\28 (San Lorenzo area) phone 06-4440817
Arcigay Card required - It's a small and weel refined pub where take place some bear night the last saturday of every month (call for info!)
. Sunday afternoon you can have some tea while watching classical gay movies. A nice balcony (with small darkroom) hangs over the main floor and allows eye-to-eye contact. - web site of SKYLINE
Hangar (closed on tues) via in selci 69 (
Cavour) phone 06-4881397 - Arcigay Card required -
There you go with the first gay pub in Rome, traditional stop for masses of tourists looking to have some turism... So you'll get here overweight americans, hairy spanish and funny drunk dutch. Do not go there, though, if you just can't stand flocks of skinny seagulls who usually hang in there .
Apeiron Club (closed on mon) via dei quattro cantoni 5 (
Cavour) phone 06-4828820 - for the touch-don't-look lovers this has been the first place in Rome with darkroom. You should try to the big ones hanging downstairs. You'll see nothing but that is not going to bother you... THE FREQUENCY Via Enea 34 ( M. FURIO CAMILLO) info 340.6939719 - 338.6111031 - cruising bar aperto dal 2003ma ora in una nuova location "zona appia Nuova, la formula è la stessa apertura ore 22 chiusura alle 3 infrasettimanale , alle 4 nel week end, martedi chiusi. per entrare è necesario avere la tessera arci e non più la Federsex. Serate particolari : giovedi extremenakedparty, venerdi black out e domenica naked Vs underwear. Il locale si presenta in maniera molto diversa dal precedente....ed è per questo che vi aspettiamo presto per vedere il nuovo Frequency."
sito web per info
Presso la Locanda Atlantide, Via dei Lucani 22b (San Lorenzo) dalle 22.30 - Ingresso: 5 euro (No Guest List! - No Vip Area! - No War!) - Appuntamento di chiacchiere e ballo con ottima musica e affollato bar, parecchi orsi orsetti cicciottini alternativi e non. Locale misto ma la serata del giovedi, la Coq Madame appunto, ha un fortissimo accento gay/lesbo/bear.
Frutta e Verdura via Placido Zurla 68/70 - Casilina, Pigneto - tel 347-8797063
discopub open for after hours saturday morning and sunday morning at 4.30AM. Mixed, transgender and gay.. some bear and chaser.
Max' s disco-bar (closed on mon) Via Achille Grandi 7-a (zona Pta Maggiore,
Vittorio) phone 06-70301599 Once known as the cave of grey bears and stuff, now it's a not so small discopub loved by many different species
and you'll surely get bears, otters and local chasers. Note that during summertime bears usually prefer standing outside Max's because inside is gonna get too warm and crowded (so they'd never make their way in). Ask info about prices! the Max is not cheap!L' Alibi (closed on mon and tue) via di Monte Testaccio 39/44 (
Piramide) phone 06-5743448 L'Alibi has changed and is on the verge of losing its gay characteristics. Good music, though, and a huge terrace. Not many big ones around... NEW 2003 ! from 20November SPECIAL BEAR FRIENDLY NIGHT BY NEWAGEGROUP! che the NEW AGE GROUP website for info.
MUCCASSASSINA (fridays only) (events managed by Circolo M. Mieli) c/o Alpheus, via del Commercio 36 (
Piramide - ostiense)
only on friday nights in fall and winter. Very crowded disco, and that means half an hour in line... Here you'll get whoever, from skinny mosquitos to heavy ones. They do not usually go dancing, so you'll get them standing and talking by the walls of the entry. Don't go there if you can't stand glamorous shows and scents of all perfumes on the market!
Usually in summertime these events take place on the beaches of Ostia. Call Circolo Mario Mieli for infos! 06-5413985
Mediterraneo via Villari 3 - phone 06-77205934 (very close to
Manzoni)San Giovanni area. Arcigay club. Clean and confortable sauna, crowded on weekends even if in normal days you won't miss some chubbies hanging around. Some big one and 70s lovers. It's also a stop for tourists.
SAUNA RIO via dei Colli Albani 10 (pochi metri da
COLLI ALBANI) - tel 06.78147828.Epicentro URsino Romano ci segnala: "E' nata una nuova sauna Bear Friendly a Roma, dove e' stato anche concluso il BearPride di E.U.RO. La struttura e' molto grossa pulita e nuova, 200 armadietti, piscina idromassaggio con fontana centrale, spazio massaggi, sauna e bagno turco docce, chill out area, camerini , grossissima cruising area e.... Al suo interno e' parlato inglese francese arabo e russo. Una sauna che guarda a oriente!"
Terme di Roma Internazionale Via Persio 4 (Quarto Miglio area, on via Appia Nuova) phone 06-7184378 - The bigger roman sauna, on weekends usually crowded by people from Naples. Many species
and many hair bellies moving around among relax rooms... saturday it's the "bear day" don't miss it!
EXTASIA·NEW!!· - Via Ombrone 1 Roma phone 06-8558398, open 15-22 - well, the sauna is there, someone gets there but we did not test it yet... the only thing to do is to try it out, it shouldn't be expensive... Let us know!
Europa Multi Club Sauna (in the summertime open on friday night!) via Aureliana 40 phone 4823650 (Porta Pia area,
Repubblica) Opened recently, the sauna is huge and feels nice. It's a sauna for body builders and other craziness. Test it! the whirlpool in Las Vegas style was great.
piazza di torremaura - capolinea bus 558 554 - in the morning, 6AM- 7AM many workers and near a street aunder construction - some possibilities
parco di villa de sanctis - on Via Casilina, - public park with many people , fat man too, bee discreet!
Monte Caprino right over the wonderful view of Foro Romano you'll find lots and flocks and if you will not be stopped by police or else you should get to bring with you a roman souvenire.. . Historic places, no bears.
Pza Sempione - Park. Via Nomentana, near Piazza Sempione. Park crowded at night, with some bear and mature men.
EUR- Colosseo quadrato , piazzale Adenauer, close to Caffe' Palombini - Big decadind park but furryballs do usually stop outside with their car.
Very cold in wintertime... Via di Fioranello, up to the point where it crosses via Appia Antica (not so far from Ciampino Airport). Up to the beginning of the street you'll see grey ones, then boys doing some trekking and last but not least a lot of cars of local guys. Sometimes truckers, gas station workers... usually fur is there.
Just for the lovers of raw situations. "Prato Tiburtino" - (Via dei monti tiburtini, in front of Pertini hospital). Due to some works going on the place is now half what it used to be and needs to be accessed from behind (near to the railways).
Wild place, crowded in the morning and afternoon with husky boys from the area, with daddies and with the usual flock of seagulls . Raccordo anulare "Nomentana" - (right lane, between Salaria and Nomentana, parking area). There's always movement donw here but police often takes a look.. truckers stop by and I don't think they stop there, under the sun, just to take a break... !
Via della Marcigliana out of GRA on the via Salaria from Rome turn on the right in direction "Tor San Giovanni". Via Marcigliana it's here, and there is some cruise at morning, afternoon and night !
Via Casilina where the Casilina meet Viale Primavera there is an old little station (Casilina Station) some people cruise at the two sides of the street and in the underpass, at night, action.
Do not go if possible in dangerous places like Valle Giulia (now under the electronic eye of police and full of boys looking for dollars), like Stazione Termini or its square, Piazza della Repubblica...
.Avorio (via macerata) - xxx rated movie club where you'll find local boys... big boys...
Not always although. Moulin Rouge (via Corbino) - Close to viale Marconi this small movie club reserves always some big surprise...
Rialto on the way to via Nazionale from Piazza Venezia. Normal movie theatre with some action...
http://www.fruttaeverdura.roma.it/bedbreakfast/index.html cheap rooms in a popular and gay friendly zone of Rome. The B&B is new and 100% gay !(2005)
GayOpen Bed and Breakfast
by Orsogrigio (graybear) ! www.angelfire.com/mo/RICLAUDIOHOLYDAYS - via dello Statuto 44 apt. 18 (Metro stop "Vittorio") 00185 Roma +39-064820013 - Bed and Breakfast in the centre of the city, very near the Max Bar, the Mediterraneo Sauna and other gay stuff
Libreria Babele (Babele Bookshop), via dei Banchi Vecchi 116 - phone 06-6876628 - (books, magazines, videos and gadgets). Books in english, lesbian section, foreing publications... You should get there not to chase anyone (even if it gets crowded with bears sometimes) but because there you can find american magazines like Bear, Bulk Male and Big Ad...
Circolo di Cultura Omosessuale "Mario Mieli" via Corinto 5 (close to
San Paolo) phone 06-5413985 (see also "Muccassassina") - Large cultural association with inititives, events, infos and so on.
ArciGay Caravaggio via Orvinio, 2 Roma Phone 06-86.38.51.12, fax 06-86.32.81.75 - Andrea Di Giambattista takes care of the Gaia Scienza Web , and is the founder of this roman Arcigay club (hoping it will get larger and live longer then the past Arcigay roman clubs).
ROME AREA
"highway from Ladispoli to Roma - parking lot near Torrimpietra" some trucker and military people (thank you for this info to a student 23yo)
CIVITAVECCHIA
Terme della Ficoncella (Ficoncella Baths) - close to the beginning of the Highway to Civitavecchia you'll find a small road ending with a kind of parking area and close to ancient pools of warm waters. Usually they are crowded with young local boys, romans bored of Rome, couples looking for something different and country young bears.
TORVAIANICA
Beach "il Buco" - via Litoranea around km 8th/9th - Naturist beach even if just in part now. Summer meeting point for the whole of the roman gay community. Some hair here and there, some belly under the sun, some action among sand dunes.
Don't miss it if you are in Rome during the summer, even if you could find someone there in Dicember!E
LATINA
Bagnaccio - Thermal Pools in open country - Cassia Nord streetway towards Montefiascone, turn left towards the lake (Capodimonte). After 300 meters on the left enter the unpaved road characterised by ruins of an ancient tower. The place is called "il Bagnaccio".
BULLICAME - Just out of the town, follow the indications for Terme dei Papi, and you'll find close to some barracks wall the thermal pools known as "Bullicame". You can get some family there but also some naked country guy who just can't sleep and goes there to have a bath...
Terme dei Papi (Popes' Baths) - After Bullicame, which is on the road for the Baths, you'll find some action even inside this beautiful thermas with pools and stuff... Keep in mind that sometimes families are there... so be discreet!
VETRALLA
Start from Rome, on the "Via Cassia" .. after Vetralla turn in direction "Viterbo sud" and after 100 meters there is a fireplaces vendor. In front of this vendor there is it the only street for the thermal pool where is possible to cruise and chase..
LATINA
After Supercinema and Corso Cinema closed it seems there's not much else there... Does anyone have news about it (other than the Station restrooms where sometimes something can happen)?
This is the most famous beach in Sperlonga, where once you could find nudists and action. Now it's different and so I'll suggest to go forward to the nex beach.
Arenauta - 300 scalini
Heading to Gaeta on the coast you'll get to the San Bonifacio beach area, a huge and crowded beach in front of which you can eat the best italian mozzarella. If you go straight on for one-two chilometers you'll get to "Arenauta" or "300 gradini", beaches to be reached walkind down about 300 steps... If you'll survive, and you will, and get to the beach head on your left. You can catch something right on the beach. Beautiful sea.
Inside the Thermas you could bounce on a grey bear or daddy... Relaxing and healty place!
Woods and gardens by the Thermas
In the evening, following the perimeter of the Thermas have a look to its gardens and to the woods there. Until midnight you'll find too many families walking around but after that time you could be able to take care of some nice daddy bear feeling lonesome.
Exiting Sabaudia (by car, bike, motorbike, by feet? it's at least 2 kilometers), get the Litoranea towards Latina. After a few turns the road will straight up and pass by the sea. You should pass the camping on the right and go up to the road between the 2nd and 3rd parking spots you'll see on the left of the street. You'll see cars parked... Leave there your car and go to the sand dunes... In wintertime you can go there in the afternoons, in summertime "open" 'till night. No nudism. In daytime even families and descreet couples. Be descreet and let yourself be guided by natural instinct... It's a not a well known place, so there are not tons of meat but.. you should be able to get some since in the Latina area there's not much else!