 ANAGNI: ancient medieval center that dominates on the Valley of the Sack. Siege of many Popes, many archeological finds testify the use of writing. The crypt of St. Mary’s Cathedral keeps the mortal remains of the Anagnian Saints.
  
VOLSCI’S CASTRO: archaeological area with mosaic floors and colored marbles (Asia Minor) of extreme beauty. You should visit the town house, the remains of the thermal installation and the necropolis.
 TRISULTI’S CHARTERHOUSE: in the Common of Collepardo rises an Abbey from the 13th century dwelled by Cistercians who will guide you through the wonderful Italian-style garden, the church and the frescoed pharmacy of the 18th century.
 MARQUIS LONGHI DE PAOLIS’ CASTLE: wonderful medieval village were you can walk around car-less to reach the castle, you can visit the Sanctuary, the prison where Celestino the 5th died and the wonderful hanging garden.
 MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF POPI: you can see some very interesting prehistoric finds, like “homo erectus” finds (430,000 years old) and “elephans antiquus” ones; furthermore materials from the roman and medieval age.
 CASAMARI’S ABBEY: it’s one of the most beautiful and famous evidences of gothic-Cistercian abbeys in Latium, founded by the Benedectines and rebuilt by Cistercians; the gothic church is the jewel of the Abbey.
 FOSSANOVA ABBEY: born from a benedectine cloister dated back to the 6th century, it became Cistercian in 115. It’s considered, together with Casamari, the original model of gothic-Cistercian architecture in Italy.
 MINTURNO ARCHEOLOGICAL AREA: a well kept museum under the sky, where you can see the remains of the grand theater, of the Forum, of the thermal installations and of the waterworks. In the Antiquarium there are statues and other finds.
 CAETANI-SERMONETA’S CASTLE: you can visit the tower, the stables, the barons’ and the cardinals’ halls, where Cesar and Lucrezia Borgia were guests.
 
ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM AND TIBERIO’S CAVE: inside the museum there are sculptures and fragments found in Tiberio’s Cave, that originally had to be a nymphaeum. From the museum you can reach the archeological area of the cave on the sea.
 LANTE OF BAGNAIA’S TOWN HOUSE: wonderful Italian-style gardens, Vignola’s idea, rich in fountains and water games architecture.
 BOMARZO’S MONSTER PARK: the prince Pier Francesco Orsini dedicated himself to the creation of the park after his wife’s death; his aim wasn’t to scare but to amaze his guests… sea monsters statues, a pending house, all in a park rich in plants, great even for kids.
 CORI: medieval town with roman remains from the Dioscuri’s temple and Hercules’ temple. Wonderful panoramic views.
 CALCATA: in the close hill of Narce they were recovered finds of etrurian- falisc civilization, today kept in the Civita Castellana’s National Museum of the Agro Falisco.
 
TUSCANIA: surrounded by necropolis, testifying the Etrurian aristocracy of that time. The most interesting grave is Madonna dell’Olivo’s, a complex of room-graves from the 3rd/4th century B.C.
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ARICCIA: Chigi Palace, ex Savelli Castle, restored by Bernini who also designed the front square. A baroque detail: one of the halls with a billiard table where you could play bowling… Wonderful halls to be seen.
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 VITERBO MUNICIPAL MUSEUM: it occupies the cloister’s room close to St. Mary of the Truth church. The halls give hospitality to, in the archeological section # 39, sarcophagus, covers and cases of the period going from the 4th to the 1st century B.C.. In the wonderful gothic cloister there are some sarcophaguses with inscriptions in etrurian language.
 ST. SEVERA COAST: beyond the touching view given by nature, the medieval village of St. Severa deserves a visit to its castle with the Saracen tower. Close to there you’ll find the Pyrgi’s Antuquarium.
 ST. NILO’S ABBEY – GROTTAFERRATA: founded in 1004, it’s the only cradle of Byzantine monasticism in Italy. The Cosmatesc floor is original, as the mosaics and the frescos. In 1754 baroc plasters covered the frescoed walls and the marble columns. Bernini made the machine of the Major Altar.
 RUSPOLI CASTLE – VIGNANELLO (VT): there’s an Italian-style garden built on a 2,000 square meters embankment. That’s where you can see the rules of Leon Battista Alberti, a great architect, come true.
 SERPARA GARDEN (VT): close to Civitella d’Agliano rises the park of statues made by the Swiss sculptor Wiedmer. The park gives hospitality to works of many other artists.
 BOLSENA: there are many archeological areas dated back to the neolitic… The roman conquered it around the 4th century B.C., moving the inhabited center to where it is at present.
 CERI: it rises on a wall of tuff, and getting over the valley you arrive to another wall where they rise the graves of cerits dated back to 25 centuries ago. Probably an etrurian siege… they were substituted by the Torlonias when they bought the village and built the Palace.
 PRIMIGENA FORTUNE TEMPLE – PALESTRINA: ended between 139 and 100 B.C., dedicated to this oriental god for the commercial luck that reigned on the place, inspired to Hellenist architectures, it keeps a wonderful mosaic representing a sort of chart of the way of the Nile…
NORCHIA’S ROCKY NECROPOLIS: at the center of a triangle between the cities of Vetralla, Tarquinia and Tuscania, rises a rocky necropolis that testifies the kind of life of that area… etrurian at first, roman then and cristian-medieval at last.
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