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The Rocca dei Colonna was erected on the highest point of the acropolis in 970 AD. The initial building had a square plan with corner towers also with a square base, and housed a cylindrical tower used as a prison. Some famous people were imprisoned there, including San Berardo, bishop of the Marsi, Jacopone da Todi and Corradino di Svevia. Over the centuries, the fortress was destroyed several times; in 1482, the fortress was renovated and the event is remembered by the inscription on the turret of the small bridge "magnificus dominus Stephanus Columna readificavit civitatem cum monte et arte MCDLXXXII".

Genazzano is an Italian town in the province of Rome. This picturesque place offers a mix of medieval history, contemporary art and natural beauty.

Genazzano is a jewel of the Prenestini mountains. In addition to its architectural beauties from the Colonna era (the castle and Bramante's nymphaeum), it is worth visiting on the first Sunday of July for the Infiorata. On this day the streets of the town are covered with artistic carpets. Just in 2012 Genazzano won the Guinness record for the largest carpet of flower petals in the world!

Gorgeous landscapes

Really nice village to cross by bicycle

An interesting village to visit which has a medieval part, the old village, all leaning against the magnificent castle, and a seventeenth-century part called Borgo Pio, the new village.

Outside the town walls, just under the arch that connects the fortress to the raised square, there is a providential fountain to fill the water bottles!

Paliano, whose origins date back to antiquity, nestled between the Prenestini and Ernici mountains, is inextricably linked to the name of the Colonna family, who had one of their cornerstones here. The period of greatest development for Paliano was the seventeenth century. The Palazzo Ducale dates from this period, built at the behest of Filippo Colonna with the adjacent Collegiate Church of S. Andrea, burial place of the family and the Fortress, which dominates the entire valley of the river Sacco, now a maximum security prison. Noteworthy in it is the pictorial cycle (attributed to Zuccari and his school) which represents Marcantonio Colonna's triumphal entry into Rome after the battle of Lepanto (1571). Today Paliano is still surrounded by walls with three access gates to the city and with ramparts arranged in green. Paliano owes notoriety also to its naturalistic and landscape aspects. (source: https://www.ciociariaturismo.it/it/la-ciociaria/i-91-comuni/tutti91comuni/120-paliano.html)