Ariccia
A Bernini bridge, a Bernini square, and the town Romans drive to for lunch.
11 days outthe nearest is a 41 min drive from Rome
Ariccia is where the Appian Way crosses a ravine on a monumental viaduct, and the square at the far end was laid out by Bernini around the Chigi palace and its church. The palace interior is one of the very few Roman baroque houses still furnished as it was.
It is also where the porchetta comes from, and the fraschette below the square exist for exactly that. The park behind the palace runs down towards the lake.
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In the hot waterThree hours in a spa set in a cave, reserved for one party at a time, in the old centre of Ariccia.
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On two wheelsA guided e-bike ride that leaves central Rome on the Appian Way past Cecilia Metella, Villa dei Quintili and Santa Maria Nova, climbs to Albano Laziale, Ariccia — where there is…
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With your handsA beekeeper opens the hives and explains how the colony is organised and how honey is made, in an apiary inside the Parco Regionale dei Castelli Romani.
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With your handsA seven-course menu at Sintesi, a one-Michelin-star restaurant in Ariccia, built around seasonality, fermentation and technique.
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On the trailA guided walk that starts in Piazza di Corte, crosses the whole old town and follows the sixteenth mile of the Appian Way through the Valle Ariccia, coming back up by the modern…
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On the trailThe local archaeology association guides five itineraries across the ancient nemus Aricinum: Ariccia's old town with the Kuntze wall paintings at the Locanda Martorelli and the …
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On the trailA guided visit to the piano nobile of Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, the baroque residence that still has its original furnishings, with the Cardinal's Rooms and the Museum of the Ba…
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In the old stonesA Baroque church at Ariccia, built by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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In the old stonesA square in Ariccia.
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In the old stonesA bridge at Ariccia.
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In the old stonesA Baroque sanctuary at Ariccia, from the seventeenth century.
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