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Isola Farnese Village

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Isola Farnese Village

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Isola Farnese Village

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Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy

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1. Ciclabile Ponte Milvio – Tiber Cycle Path loop from Garbatella

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06:02

790m

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2. Isola Farnese Village – Mola Waterfall of Formello loop from Ipogeo degli Ottavi

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03:38

620m

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3. Ciclabile Ponte Milvio – Cascata della Mola di Formello loop from Ottaviano

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03:53

450m

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Lord Mincius

March 28, 2021

Once upon a time, and there still is along the Cassia, a small village born on the ruins of an old Etruscan city, once surrounded by walls, towers and gates. They called it "Isola" because it stood on a tufa rock and was surrounded by a ditch, the Piordo ditch.

At the center of the village, which became a Roman municipality after the conquest of the city of Veio, there was a small square with a column in the center and a church built in 1400, the Church of San Pancrazio. On the island there was a medieval castle which in the 1500s was purchased by the Farnese family, from which it later took its name.

As in every fairy tale, the castle was separated from the rest of the town by an artificial moat, which could be overcome thanks to a drawbridge; it was surrounded by walls that divided it from small houses inhabited by the inhabitants of the village…

Thus began the tale of Isola Farnese, the magical village of the 15th Municipality, the small town immersed in the Parco di Veio and only a couple of kilometers away from the highly populated districts of La Storta and Olgiata.

A timeless place, where the clock seems to have stopped with the intention of preserving the past and tradition, the little jewel between the Valle della Storta and the Pianoro della Comunità Campetti, hidden between Via Cassia and the countryside hills that lead up to Formello.

So small but rich in history, the Insula takes its name from its conformation and from Cardinal Alessandro Farnese who in the 17th century became the owner of the castle, now private property.

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BednBikes

October 15, 2020

Very nice Borgo near Rome

Alonzino

August 25, 2023

Small village in the Roman countryside, a fixed stop at the fountain in the square before entering the park of Veio.

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Isola Farnese Village

1. Ciclabile Ponte Milvio – Tiber Cycle Path loop from Garbatella

2. Isola Farnese Village – Mola Waterfall of Formello loop from Ipogeo degli Ottavi

3. Ciclabile Ponte Milvio – Cascata della Mola di Formello loop from Ottaviano

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