SURROUNDINGS
THE RENAISSANCE CASTLES AND PALACES ( MAX 60 MIN AWAY )
There are numberous one-thousand-year-old fortresses, which were hard fought althroughout the centuries by the local sovereigns and the big Roman noble families, thereby bearing witness to important historical events and to the ticklish relations of this land with Rome and the surrounding regions. Strongholds, castles and forts tell stories of ancient medieval courts and superb Renaissance banquets, characterized now by the fights between the papacy and the empire now by the seigniory of the Farnese and by the vicissitudes of the town of Castro.
- Palazzo Farnese (Caprarola)
- Villa Lante (Viterbo)*
- Palazzo Giustiniani Odescalchi (Bassano)
- Castello Odescalchi (Bracciano)
- Castello Ruspoli (Vignanello)*
- Castello Orsini-Misciattelli (Vasanello)*
- Rocca Respampani (Monte Romano)
- Castello Costaguti (Roccalvecce)
- Castello Monaldeschi-Cahen (Torre Alfina)
- Rocca Monaldeschi (Bolsena)
- Castello Sciarra (Carbognano)
- Forte Sangallo (Civita Castellana)
*Renowned for their gardens, too.
