Top 10 Hidden Gems Things to do in Province of Rome, Lazio

September 4, 2021 Darleen Reid

The Province of Rome (Italian: Provincia di Roma) was one of the five provinces of Lazio, Italy. In 2015 it became the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital.
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1. Sicily Rome American Cemetery and Memorial

Piazza John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1, 00048 Nettuno Italy +39 06 988 0284 http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/sicily-rome-american-cemetery#.V58dkeQkrIU
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5.0 based on 432 reviews

Sicily Rome American Cemetery and Memorial

Reviewed By PasssionateTraveler - Payson, United States

Every American should visit this cemetery when in the area or even make a special trip to see it! The American Battlefield Commission does a wonderful job of maintaining this cemetery. There’s a 7 minute video everyone should see. Learn things like: Two Medal of Honor Recipients 30 sets of brothers 29 Tuskegee Airmen Aircrew members buried together who died on the same day 7,856 service members buried here 490 unknown burials Beautifully manicured and maintained, and a great tribute to those who gave their all.

2. Santuario del Sacro Speco - Monastero di San Benedetto

Piazzale San Benedetto SNC, 00028 Subiaco Italy +39 0774 85039 [email protected] http://www.sacrospecosubiaco.it
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5.0 based on 1,067 reviews

Santuario del Sacro Speco - Monastero di San Benedetto

Reviewed By plv2020

We were able to drive up with a family member but so much mountains greenery speechless beautiful. Then turn around and the Sanctuary a beautiful building built in the mountain Not being able to envision how they built this beautiful building so many years ago! When you enter it’s just very peaceful and feel spiritual; it gave me chills. I felt more spirituality here than feeling anything at the Vatican. At the end of San Benedetto there’s a quaint gift shop.

3. Bunker Soratte

Viale Europa, 00060 Sant'Oreste Italy +39 380 383 8102 [email protected] http://www.bunkersoratte.it
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5.0 based on 527 reviews

Bunker Soratte

Museo storico diffuso "Percorso della memoria": un sito straordinario dove la storia d'Italia si tocca con mano, dai drammi della seconda guerra mondiale fino al fantomatico rifugio antiatomico del Presidente della Repubblica edificato durante la guerra fredda. Visite guidate su prenotazione, all' interno dei rifugi antiaerei creati da Mussolini per il governo italiano e che tra il 1943 e il 1944 furono sede del Comando Supremo nazista della Wermacht di Kesselring durante i dieci mesi più drammatici della seconda guerra mondiale. La visita conduce il gruppo in un crescendo di drammaticità e patos fino al bunker antiatomico del Presidente della Repubblica e del Governo Italiano realizzato durante la guerra fredda a 300 metri sotto la roccia! Visita media 2 ore, consigliati abiti comodi e caldi (temperatura interna 10-12°). Prenotazione obbligatoria. Aperto tutte le domeniche, mentre nei giorni feriali è richiesto un gruppo minimo di 10 persone con orario da concordare.

Reviewed By Lenadino

Banker Soratte is worth the visit and is only a short drive from Rome. Really knowledgeable and passionate guide provided history about the bunker's use during both ww2 and the cold war. Would highly recommend.

4. Azienda Biologica De Sanctis

Via Pietraporzia, 50, 00044, Frascati Italy +39 340 396 2771 [email protected] http://www.frascati-wine.com/
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5.0 based on 23 reviews

Azienda Biologica De Sanctis

5. Minardi Frascati Winery - Antico Casale Minardi

Via San Marco 2a, 00044, Frascati Italy +39 349 287 8141 [email protected] http://minardifrascatiwinery.com/
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Minardi Frascati Winery - Antico Casale Minardi

While in Rome, take your chance to experience one-of-a-kind Guided Wine Tours of one of the famous Frascati Wine vineyards! You will also have a chance to enjoy a fun Pasta Making Class or Pizza class with our traditional Chef! Or a nice horseback riding experience with a qualified instructor in our Ranch! Here, at the Minardi Historic Winery, or Antico Casale Minardi, you will taste genuine wines and olive oil, as well as delicious Italian food! The Farmhouse has a beautiful deck overlooking Rome and an original wine tasting room linked with the old cellar. Wine Tours and Pasta or Pizza Making Classes upon booking! Organization of events, parties and Country Weddings!

Reviewed By 570graceh

WOW! What an experience, I found Minardi wine tours on trip advisor, Alfredo was incredibly quick to respond and accommodating for our groups specific dietary requirements and tight timings. Max - our host around Frisanti - is such a character! and very knowledgeable of this beautiful historical town where we got to try local bread and wine. After a short while walking round the town, we were picked up and taken on the short journey to the vineyard which absolutely takes your breath away, and is steeped in family history. Alfredo’s father showed us around and it was amazing to hear from a 9th generation wine maker. He was incredibly passionate and had many stories to tell! We then tried the families’ DOCG white wine and local olive oil with bread in the wine ‘museum’ which led into a 4 course tasting menu with matching wine - all of which was exceptional - hats off to Luigi the chef who also has a hidden operatic singing talent which we were lucky enough to witness as this experience was booked for my birthday! Luigi and Alfredo surprised us with a piano and operatic show and it was just fabulous. Thank you to you all - you made our final night in Italy a night we will never forget.

6. Necropoli della Banditaccia

Via della Necropoli 43/45, 00052, Cerveteri Italy +39 06 994 0001 [email protected] http://www.tarquinia-cerveteri.it
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4.5 based on 896 reviews

Necropoli della Banditaccia

Necropolis of Cerveteri A major centre of Etruscan civilisation that was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, the Necropolis stretches for more than two kilometres. This certainly makes it the most imposing in all Etruria and one of the most magnificent monuments of its kind anywhere in the Mediterranean basin. These monumental tombs are located inside tumuli, partly cut into the tufa rock and partly built over it. The purpose of theseedifices was to illustrate the desire of a handful of aristocratic families to make a statement about their wealth and to perpetuate a lifestyle of the highest quality also after death. This may explain the abundance of luxury goods found in these tombs, such as tableware made of precious metal, goldsmith’s work, illustrated vases, bronzes and pieces imported from Greece and the Near East, as well as weapons, belts, razors, buckles and jewellery. The interiors are eerily evocative, imitating the houses where their occupants spent their lives, with several rooms, shaped doors and windows, columns and pillars, beamed and coffered ceilings, furnishings, funerary beds and sometimes grave goods. It is also interesting to visit the tombs known locally as a dado(like dice), which describes how they line the streets of the necropolis in regular patterns, looking uncannily like a modern housing estate. Discover how the tombs come to life!

Reviewed By ujio

A jump in the past! it is very well kept, and very large, you can spend hours looking and taking pictures of this fascinating site!

7. Monastero di Santa Scolastica

Via dei Monasteri, 22, 00028 Subiaco Italy +39 0774 85525 http://www.polomusealelazio.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/263/monastero-di-santa-scolastica
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4.5 based on 395 reviews

Monastero di Santa Scolastica

8. Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica

Viale Dei Romagnoli 717, 00119 Ostia Antica Italy +39 06 5635 8099 [email protected] http://www.ostiaantica.beniculturali.it
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Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica

Present day site of sprawling ruins of a densely populated Roman city at the mouth of the river Tiber.

Reviewed By patrickn775 - London, United Kingdom

After days of rain the weather broke and we headed for Ostia. It is a short journey from central Rome by Metro, with one change to an overground line. The site is a five minute walk from the station. This ancient town was once the port hub for goods from across the Roman Empire and must have been a busy commercial town. This is in evidence in the many Horea, or warehouse complexes dotted around. The site is vast with many buildings easily recognisable from antiquity. Highlights for me included a smart Tabernae that could almost still be serving wine and snacks today. Shopping arcades, designated emporia selling fish (with marble tanks), a complete theatre behind which is a big piazza with mosaics identifying each guild where merchants did business and deals were made. It is different from Pompeii where the dramatic death and destruction visited on a whole city over two days makes for a sometimes chilling but utterly compelling visit. The crowds are can be daunting there but you can still find quiet spots off the main tracks. However, I would say nearby Herculaneum is an even more unmissable visit with stunning, vivid colour and survival of wooden furniture and roofs plus even paper scrolls from the boiling mud and the dead still situ. Ostia feels far more alive than both, however, even though the former were frozen in time—Vesuvius’ devastation took a heavy toll. At Ostia Antica the crowds when we went were totally absent. Much of the site we had entirely to ourselves. You will need a map and the talk through device if you are to make your visit work. The site is cheap to visit and deserves more support than it gets. Let your imagination take over and enjoy this big, rare ancient marvel for its superb preservation, diversity of architecture and critical role in feeding, clothing and building of Ancient Rome.

9. Riserva Naturale Regionale Monterano - Canale Monterano (RM)

Exit A12 at Cerveteri-Ladispoli Strada Antica Monterano. Uffici: Piazza Tubingen, 1 - Canale Monterano, 00060, Bracciano Italy +39 06 996 2724 http://www.monteranoriserva.com/wp/index.php
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4.5 based on 154 reviews

Riserva Naturale Regionale Monterano - Canale Monterano (RM)

10. Parco Villa Gregoriana

Largo Sant'Angelo, 00019, Tivoli Italy +39 0774 332650 [email protected] http://www.fondoambiente.it/luoghi/parco-villa-gregoriana?utm_source=social&utm_medium=tripadvisor&utm_campaign=gregoriana
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4.5 based on 1,755 reviews

Parco Villa Gregoriana

A poco più di mezz’ora da Roma, a Tivoli, Parco Villa Gregoriana racchiude un ingente patrimonio che declina natura, storia, archeologia e artificio che qui si fondono in modo così seducente da diventare meta obbligata del Grand Tour nell’800 e il soggetto principale delle rappresentazioni pittoriche di Tivoli. Nel 1832 papa Gregorio XVI promosse una grandiosa opera di ingegneria idraulica per contenere le continue esondazioni dell’Aniene, incanalando le sue acque in un doppio traforo scavato nel monte Catillo e ingrossandole poi artificialmente dando così vita ai 120 metri di salto della nuova Cascata Grande, seconda in Italia dopo le Marmore. Compiuta l’opera, il Papa creò il Parco che porta il suo nome e che per oltre un secolo fu meta di artisti, letterati e uomini di cultura che ne raccontarono al mondo la bellezza.

Reviewed By springlering - Marietta, United States

There are two entrances to this horseshoe shaped park. If you go in the entrance with the temple, you will go down the steep way and come up the shallower, easier steps. If you go in the yellow entrance you will go down the shallow way and have what may be a challenge to come up. Either way, wear appropriate shoes. The steps are tall and frequent on the steep side. We saw people wearing wedges and flip flops and knew they would be very unhappy once they got to the steep part. There are lots of fountains on both sides of the gorge to refill water bottles. Park is uncrowded, and has beautiful views in both directions, and a very interesting and tragic backstory explaining why the river disappears and reappears on maps. Wish I could have seen it before!

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