This collection gathers events and places in hill towns near the city, including villages, wine cellars, crater lakes, and walking trails. It is useful for anyone looking for a day trip with local food, walks, and village festivals.

Places: Castelli Romani (39)

• Albano Laziale (RM)Albano Laziale is in the province of Rome, in the Alban Hills, just under 25 kilometers from the center of the capital along Via Appia (State Road…
• Ariccia (RM)Ariccia is the town of the fraschette, one of our favorite destinations in the Castelli Romani for spending a day or an evening with friends withou…
• Boschetto delle Faete – Rocca di PapaThe Boschetto delle Faete is the equipped area and loop trail that the Castelli Romani Regional Park has carved out on the wooded slope of Rocca di…
• Castel Gandolfo (RM)Castel Gandolfo can be reached from Rome in just under an hour. The regional train on the Roma Termini - Albano Laziale line stops at Castel Gandol…
• Castelli Romani ParkThe Castelli Romani regional park is a protected area of the Lazio region - 15,000 hectares - in the area of the ancient Lazio Volcano of the Alban…
• Colonna (RM)Colonna is a small town of the Castelli Romani, set on the northern slopes of the Colli Albani between the A1 highway and Via Casilina, and it can…
• Frascati (RM)Frascati (RM) - Frascati 00044 RM
• Genzano di Roma (RM)Genzano di Roma (RM) - Genzano di Roma 00045 RM
• Grottaferrata (RM)A small, elegant town at the gates of Rome, Grottaferrata is known for the Abbey of San Nilo and for the historic fair of medieval origin held here…
• INGV – Rocca di Papa Geophysical MuseumINGV - Rocca di Papa Geophysical Museum - Via dell'Osservatorio, 40, 00040 Rocca di Papa RM, Italy
• Lake Albano (RM)Lake Albano fills a volcanic crater in the Castelli Romani area, about 20 kilometers southeast of Rome, in Rome Province (RM). Its shores fall most…
• Lake Albano EmissaryThe Lake Albano Emissary has no public openings with fixed hours: the Roman tunnel is largely flooded and the Castelli Romani Regional Park lists i…
• Lake NemiLake Nemi occupies the bottom of an extinct volcanic crater in the Alban Hills, about 30 kilometers south of Rome, and is the smaller and more secl…
• Lanuvio (RM)Lanuvio is 33 kilometers southeast of Rome, on the southern slope of the Alban Hills, inside the boundaries of the Castelli Romani Regional Park. T…
• Marino (RM)Marino (RM) - Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 5, 00047 Marino RM
• Mitreo di MarinoThe Mitreo di Marino is at Via Borgo Stazione 12, in Marino (RM), inside a Roman cistern dug into the tuff under the town, and it can be visited on…
• Monte Compatri (RM)Monte Compatri (RM) is a municipality of about 11,800 inhabitants on the eastern side of the Vulcano Laziale, 576 meters above sea level: the third…
• Monte Porzio Catone (RM)Monte Porzio Catone (RM) is a municipality of the Metropolitan City of Roma Capitale, on the northern slope of the Alban Hills, between Frascati to…
• Monte Porzio Catone Observatory MuseumMonte Porzio Catone Observatory Museum - Viale Frascati, 33, 00040 Monte Porzio Catone RM, Italy
• Museum of the Greek Abbey of San Nilo at GrottaferrataThe Museum of the Greek Abbey of San Nilo, also known as Santa Maria di Grottaferrata and consecrated in 1024 by Pope John XIX, houses Basilian mon…
• Nemi (RM)Nemi (RM) - Piazza Roma, 00074 Nemi RM
• Nemorense Museum – Museum of the Roman ShipsNemorense Museum - Museum of the Roman Ships, Via Diana 13-15, 00040 Nemi (RM), on the northern shore of the lake. Telephone +39 06 9398040. Open T…
• Oreste Nardini Archaeological MuseumOreste Nardini Archaeological Museum - Via Goffredo Mameli, 6, 00049 Velletri RM, Italy
• Orion ClubOrion Club is the concert hall of Ciampino, at Viale John Fitzgerald Kennedy 52, just outside Rome's Grande Raccordo Anulare, in the industrial are…
• Palazzo Chigi in AricciaPalazzo Chigi in Ariccia - Piazza di Corte, 14, 00072 Ariccia RM, Italy
• Palazzo Sforza Cesarini in GenzanoPalazzo Sforza Cesarini, together with the adjoining Parco Sforza-Cesarini, is the main element of Genzano's cultural heritage.
• Pontifical Palace of Castel GandolfoThe Pontifical Palace of Castel Gandolfo (or Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo) has been a museum belonging to the Holy See since 2016.
• Rocca di Papa (RM)Rocca di Papa is the perched town that closes off the eastern side of the Castelli Romani amphitheater, on the slope of Monte Cavo, the ancient Mon…
• Rocca Priora (RM)Rocca Priora is the highest municipality of the Castelli Romani: 768 meters above sea level, on the eastern ridge of the Colli Albani, about 40 kil…
• Sanctuary of Diana NemorenseThe Sanctuary of Diana Nemorense (or Sanctuary of Diana Aricina) was a huge Roman religious complex set in the woods on the shores of Lake Nemi
• Sanctuary of Juno Sospita in LanuvioThe Sanctuary of Juno Sospita in Lanuvio was the main center of worship of the Goddess Juno
• Stimmate Archaeological AreaStimmate Archaeological Area - Via delle Stimmate, 15, 00049 Velletri RM, Italy
• The Uphill-Downhill Road Between Ariccia and Rocca di PapaThe road is called Uphill and Downhill, but also “Devil's Climb” or “Bewitched Climb” because any object, even the car itself, left free, instead o…
• TusculumYou can visit Tusculum in a day from Roma Termini, but only if you accept a fact the park itself states plainly: the archaeological area is not ser…
• Velletri (RM)Velletri (RM) - Via Goffredo Mameli, 6, 00049 Velletri RM, Italy
• Villa Aldobrandini in FrascatiVilla Aldobrandini in Frascati can be visited only in the park, only on weekdays and only after asking permission from the town's tourist informati…
• Villa Falconieri in FrascatiVilla Falconieri is at viale Borromini 5 in Frascati (RM) and today can be visited only on Sunday, with two free guided tours in Italian at 10:00 a…
• Villa MondragoneVilla Mondragone is at via Frascati 51, in Monte Porzio Catone, and can be visited only on the dates that the University of Rome Tor Vergata puts o…
• Villa Torlonia in FrascatiVilla Torlonia in Frascati today is a municipal public park with free and open access, with entrances on Piazza Guglielmo Marconi and on Viale Anni…