Lazio - Not just a region around Rome, Much more than that.

Finding our more about the ancestral charm of the Lazio Region, leaving aside the intrusive, omnivorous, marvellous capital city.

Lazio is just like Tuscany, but without the tourists. The rolling hills, the vines, the olives. Take a trip though Lazio with Anne.

To understand the Lazio region and to appreciate its special features, we have to set aside its relationship with Rome, or rather the influence that the millenary history of Rome has on the region - a region that is as difficult to to view as a homogeneous whole but which is nevertheless has a clear identity in geographic, economic and cultural terms.

Of course, as soon as we try to sum up its characteristics, There is a nagging doubt that we have to involve the capital city in one way or another. 

To make a consideration, it could be said that Lazio has given Rome much more than it has received in return. To fully appreciate the region, and to make the most of visiting it, we must bear in mind that its cultural, artistic and natural resources are the expression of a strong and specific territorial identity, of fascinating places and people through whom we can discover and enjoy what it has to offer - avoiding "Roman" shadows and metropolitan influence.

Overshadowed by a legend

From the Castelli to the borders of Tuscia, touring a richly varied province which is no longer just an appendage to the Eternal City

Until fairy recently, Rome's fame was such that it almost completely obscured the surrounding province which was considered little more than a pleasing appendage to the Eternal City. Take a trip to the bucolic meadows and sunshine filtering through z glass of wine, or follow a trail that includes sanctuaries and patrician villas, archeological sites, abbeys and museums - signs of civilisation that give the territory its unmistakable character.

The classic tour is the "Castelli Romani", the towns and villages just to the south and east of Rome, many of which, as their name implies, have their origins in feudal strongholds. It is a tour in the literal sense of the word, because the towns and villages are set on the tree clad ridges and slopes of the "Colli Albani" in other words the Lazio "volcano", now extinct, whose craters hold the two lakes of Nemi and Castelgandolfo.

It is here that you can visit the "fraschette", or wine cellars, where you can eat spit-roasted pork, and homemade bread, washed down with wine drawn from from the cask - something of an institution here.

Our itinerary passes the castles of Genazzono and Colonna, the church of the Collegiata dell'Assunta in Valmontone, the Palazzo Pallavinini in Zagarolo, until we come to the massive stone walls of the ancient acropolis in Segni, followed by the town of Palestrina which is dominated by an imposing shrine dedicated to "Foruna Primigenia" one of the most important places of worship in the pagan world

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