The tour of medieval Northern Lazio will plunge the visitor into an “Old time” atmosphere, among narrow streets in small and wonderful villages perched on mountains. These villages have only seen slight changes so that a visit will be a trip through the past. The most representative and impressive sites are Bagnoregio, Bolsena, the park of Bomarzo and Viterbo.

The origins of Bagnoregio go back to the pre- Etruscan era. The area around Bagnoregio offers its visitors a vast space and luxurious vegetation where it is possible to enjoy relaxation and tranquility. The most interesting buildings are the Piramide-Ossario, the Porta Alabana, Piazza Cavour, and the Church dell’Annunziata.

The traveler who approaches Bagnoregio immediately notices a surreal view, with a small group of houses perched on a rock. There are suggestive ruins of the houses of Bagnoreggio along the only street running through the village. The hills and the landscape surrounding Bagnoregio offer the view of natural sculptures made by water, wind, and time in the clay.

Bolsena is a charming town on the hill slopes overlooking the lake and surrounded by thriving nature. This village had its most flourishing period between the 1st and 4th century A.D. The Roman city was abandoned during the 4th century, probably because of the raids of the longobards, then the town community went to live on the cliff still holding the medieval quarter around the castle. This is Bolsena as we know it today.

Bomarzo is a peculiar park in a beautiful villa 90 km from Rome built by the Orsini family between 1552 and 1580. What makes this park unique are its sculptures; enormous monsters immersed in a luxuriant landscape that were created by following the imitation of nature; they represent mythical, scary and strange figures in marble. The park remained unknown until 1938 when discovered by Salvador Dalí.

Still enclosed within its walls, Viterbo has preserved a medieval appearance surprisingly unaltered and is even more colorful due to the survival of the ancient artisan traditions. Churches, buildings, towers, fountains, and the quarter of Saint Pellegrino, are all immersed together with its ancient construction of rock in an extraordinary and captivating atmosphere. Viterbo was once the chief town of Tuscia, an area once possessed by the Etruscans, and boasts of archaeological findings of this ancient and mysterious civilization found within its vicinity. The town’s programs of cultural and folklore events are extremely entertaining and exciting.

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