카페나 최고의 워킹 & 하이킹 경로

A lovely little place. If you're nearby, it's worth a stop.

Don't do this route during this period. Today at Monte Calvio we had to urgently turn back because of mud (more like quicksand, inevitable) and it's already too much if we managed to get there. Impracticable terrain full of water and mud everywhere and plants with thorns everywhere. Full of footprints and excrement of wild boars.

The Gattaceca scrub is always a spectacle of colours.

from Lazio Nascosco: "Between the via Campagnanese and the via Flaminia there is the locality Casalaccio (or Castellaccio), the name clearly derives from the presence of the ruins of the vast complex of a Roman villa which in ancient times was accessed from a paved road that branched off from the Via Flaminia. It must have been a complex of particular prestige as the excavations revealed numerous colored marbles, stuccos and mosaics. Today, among the ruins a particularly monumental building stands out: a cistern for the collection and distribution of water, equipped with powerful buttresses, which in the Middle Ages was reused as a fortress".

Ruins of an ancient Roman cistern transformed into a tower in the Middle Ages

The Orsini di Fiano Romano ducal castle was built between 1489 and 1493 on commission of Niccolò III Orsini, count of Pitigliano, Sovana and Nola. The Castle took on the name of Castello ducale only in the seventeenth century, when the fief of Fiano passed from the Orsini family to Caterina de 'Nobili. It was in fact the son of Caterina de 'Nobili, Cardinal Francesco Sforza, who after receiving the fiefdom as a gift from his mother in 1606 had Fiano built as a duchy with a bull of Pope Paul V of 18 July 1608.

This Roman signal tower was part of an information system in antiquity, together with other such signal towers it was used for the rapid transmission of messages. For example, about approaching enemies.. (see Rother hiking guide)

Friend drinking fountain!