Lago Trasimeno Getting there & around

Getting there & around

APM buses connect Perugia with Passignano (€3, one hour and 10 minutes, nine daily) and Castiglione del Lago (€4.60, 1¼ hours, nine daily). Trains head from Perugia around hourly to Torricella (€1.80, 25 minutes), Passignano (€2.30, 30 minutes) and Castiglione del Lago (€3.30, one hour, nine daily).

APM (800 51 21 41) also operates ferry services. The company has offices on the waterfront at each town, where you can pick up a timetable. From approximately Easter until the end of September, hourly ferries head from Passignano to Castiglione del Lago (€4, 40 minutes), San Feliciano to Isola Polvese (€3.10, 10 minutes) and Castiglione del Lago to Isola Maggiore (€3.70, 30 minutes). Ferries stop running at 7pm.

You can hire bicycles at most camp sites, Fattoria Il Poggio or La Casa sul Lago. Also recommended:

Cicli Valentini (/fax 075 95 16 63; Via Firenze 68b, Castiglione del Lago)

Marinelli Ferrettini Fabio (/fax 075 95 31 26; Via B Buozzi 26, Castiglione del Lago)