Where art, history, architecture and nature meet. Discover the ancient residences of nobles and cardinals in the area. You will find water games, nymphaeums, Italian gardens and sumptuous palaces and dream of experiencing the magical atmosphere of the past.
Set in the greenery of Bracciano, a place frozen in time, is the Orsini Odescalchi Castle. With its trapezoidal layout and six large towers, it is one of the largest in Europe and dates from 1400. The first section of the building probably dates back to the twelfth...
Dating to the year 1000, the Palazzo Baronale degli Anguillara is the most important building in Calcata and dominates the village's skyline with its crenelated tower. After being the home of the Anguillara family, over time it has hosted all the village's main...
Fondi Castle Construction of the Baronial Castle began in 1319 with the restructuring of the walls - parts of which can still be seen - by Roffredo III Caetani, who wanted to make it the centre of his lordship. The Baronial Palace, connected to the castle by a...
Palazzo Farnese di Caprarola, or Villa Farnese, is one of the most fascinating examples of a Renaissance residence in all of Europe. It has five floors, dozens of rooms, frescoed rooms, public and private areas and grounds with fabulous gardens. An interesting fact is...
The Monster Park was built in Bomarzo at the behest of Vinicio Orsini in the sixteenth century, in memory of his deceased wife. He asked the architects Pirro Ligorio and Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, called il Vignola, to make some “impossible” buildings, monsters and...
In the Roman Monti Rione, on the edge of the Quirinale hill and overlooking the Trajan markets, Villa Aldobrandini has been reopened to the public, with its ancient marbles, valuable paintings and a stunning seventeenth-century hanging garden. The fascinating story of...
The taste for play and surprise: these are the first sensations and emotions of the many tourists who visit Villa Lante in Bagnaia each year, one of the most significant achievements of the Italian Sixteenth Century. There is no end to the enchantment in the beautiful...
The ducal palace or Palazzo Chigi, perched on one of the ends of the monumental bridge of Ariccia, is a unique example of a Baroque residence designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his young pupil Carlo Fontana. Its environmental context and original decoration have...
After the lavish Etruscan and Roman eras, what is today the province of Viterbo thrived again in the Middle Ages. With its strategic position on the Via Cassia/Francigena, around the year one thousand, Viterbo gained importance because of the Lombards, who chose it...
One of the most significant medieval traces in the province of Latina, historically and artistically, but also for the religious and symbolic value, is definitely the Fossanova Abbey, not far from today’s city of Priverno. Built in the early 12th century, it is the...
The Middle Ages was a crucial period for the city and left traces of great beauty and of great interest. Entire historical districts were built during that period, such as Monti and Trastevere. In the Constantinian era the Basilicas of the Holy Cross in...
In the Middle Ages, Anagni was the most prestigious city in this region, the birthplace of Popes Innocent III and Gregory IX, and later Boniface VIII, institutor of the first Jubilee, and a leading exponent of temporal power and protagonist of the European political...
The first person to give autonomy to Sabina, with respect to Rome, was Charlemagne. The art, from the Carolingian to the Lombard, bears witness to the fact of the area’s importance, which endured over time. Farfa Abbey was also very important, and already in the...