If Rome is known for its history and art, the province is not inferior and it is worth a visit, because each of its 119 towns can offer appealing landscape and monument beauties, not to consider some equally interesting aspects such as gastronomy, handicraft and folklore. The territory is so varied to be able to offer great possibilities for tourists. In these towns history and art lovers will find many remains of villas and roman thermae, Etruscan tombs, medieval or Renaissance castles, fortresses, hermitages, museums, and villages where time seems to have stopped.
All people who enjoy holidays in contact with nature, instead, can choose among lake, river, sea, mountain, hill with vineyards and olive groves, nature reserves, and parks spread all over the territory. It will be possible to follow one of the ancient consular roads and go inside the province, choosing maybe the solid calendar of feasts and festivals; all this will allow to rediscover traditions and costumes which, otherwise, risk falling into oblivion.
Handicraft and gastronomy too are of particular attraction. Travelling along these routes, it will be possible to taste the typical cuisine products, simple and genuine, but particularly inviting, such as extra virgin olive oil, cheeses and many D.O.C. wines.
The Rome province appears as a great history book, a museum without walls nor showcases, with continuous charming landscapes one after another. However, for a law of Latium Region of 15th May, 1997, no. 9, we thought it better to divide its territory into six touristically homogeneous areas, to which the Rome Area had been added. Each of them distinguishes for its own particular characteristic, both at environmental and historic-cultural level. Leaving Rome going northwards, you reach the North-West Area, which goes from Fiumicino to the three coastal districts of the Bracciano Lake. Proceeding in clockwise direction, the Tiber Valley Area follows, then that of the Tiburtinian-Sublacensis, which has in Tivoli and Subiaco its most known centres. It borders the Prenestine and the Mount Lepini Area, where Palestrina rises, a city known for its magnificent mosaics. The last two areas are that of the Castelli Romani - certainly the most known - and that of the South Coast, bordering the province of Latina.
Inside each of these areas it is possible to trace different enjoyable itineraries according to the increasing demand for routes far away from the chaos of big cities. What is better than combining a bicycle tour with the visit to a museum or a castle, or with the rediscovery of genuine products and secular traditions?
Councillor's Office for Tourism
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