Civita di Bagnorego is known all over the world as the dying town. Once rich and powerful, today the progressive erosion turned it into a ghost town. You can reach the city center only walking along a pedestrian bridge, to find out a place where time seems to have stopped.
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Viterbo, the city of Popes
Viterbo is an amazing medieval town, still surrounded by its beautiful and intact medieval walls. Walking through the medieval quarter of San Pellegrino is like stepping back in time. It is known as the “City of the Popes” due to the period in which Viterbo was the Papal seat
Continue readingThe Tarot Garden
Il “Giardino dei Tarocchi”, or the Garden of Tarot is an evocative sculpture garden created by the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle, a “small Eden where man and nature meet”.
Continue readingVitozza, the forgotten town
The unique charm of an abandoned village, its houses – entirely carved out of the rock – now hidden in lush vegetation. Vitozza, set on the top of a tufaceous cliff, hangs over the valley of the river Lente, which here has its springs.
Continue readingPitigliano, the town where pre-Roman world and Middle Ages are one
From the maze of the medieval town to the amazing Etruscan excavated road. A day around the world-famous hilltop town.
Continue readingSaint Patrick’s well in Orvieto
Saint Patrick’s well is one of the most famous attractions in Orvieto. It was built by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, at the behest of Pope Clement VIII who had taken refuge in Orvieto during the Sack of Rome (1527)
Continue readingThe Gardens of Bomarzo: the Sacred Woods
The “Sacred Wood” of Bomarzo is a very peculiar park in the neighborhood of Viterbo. It is set up with dozens of sculptures shaped like sea monsters, giants, ogres, fountains, or exotic animals, created in the 16th century but breaking all the rules of Renaissance’s beauty and symmetry.
Continue readingCivita di Bagnoregio, the dying town
Known as “the dying town”, Civita di Bagnoregio is one of the most evocative Italy’s cities.
Continue readingAround the lake Bolsena
In the heart of Province of Viterbo is Lake Bolsena, the largest volcanic lake in Europe.
Continue readingUp and down the hills in Acquapendente
Acquapendente is one of the less known jewels of central Italy, but it has over one thousand years of history. A real jewel under the radar!
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