This collection includes castles and fortresses, medieval or Renaissance strongholds often open to visitors, with towers, walls, and courtyards. It suits readers interested in military history or architecture, or anyone planning a day trip that pairs well with other sites nearby.
Places: Castle (65)
Alvito (FR)Alvito (FR) is a municipality of about 2,500 inhabitants in the Val di Comino, in the province of Frosinone, at 738 meters above sea level on the s…- Ardito Desio Geopaleontological Museum in Rocca di CaveArdito Desio Geopaleontological Museum in Rocca di Cave - Via della Torre, 30, 00030 Rocca di Cave RM, Italy
- Arpino (FR)Arpino (FR) -
- Arsoli (RM)Arsoli sits 470 meters above sea level on the last rocky spur of the Aniene Valley before the Abruzzo border, in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capi…
- Bracciano (RM)Bracciano (RM) is a town of about 18,400 residents in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, set on the Sabatini Mountains about 40 kilometers from…
- Capalbio (GR)Capalbio (GR) - Capalbio 58011 GR
- Capodimonte (VT) – Lake BolsenaCapodimonte is a town in the province of Viterbo of about 1,650 inhabitants, at 334 meters above sea level, built on a promontory of volcanic rock…
- Castel MadamaCastel Madama is a municipality of the Metropolitan City of Rome, at 428 meters above sea level on the slope that overlooks the Aniene valley, abou…
- Castel Mattia – the Castellaccio (FR)Located along Via Casilina, between Colleferro and Anagni, Castel Mattia (Castellaccio) was founded in the mid-13th century by Mattia di Anagni, ne…
- Castel San Pietro Romano (RM)Castel San Pietro Romano is a small Italian town with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in Lazio.
- Castel Sant'AngeloCastel Sant'Angelo (or Mole Adrianorum or Castellum Crescentii in the 10th-12th centuries), also known as the Mausoleum of Hadrian, is located on t…
- Castelletto Torre AngelaCastelletto Torre Angela
Via di Torrenova , 700
Rome
- Castello di LunghezzaCastello di Lunghezza - Via della Tenuta del Cavaliere, 230, 00132 Roma RM
- Castello di San Martino (Villa Tolomeo Gallio)Castello di San Martino (Villa Tolomeo Gallio), of Renaissance origin, is located inside the park of the same name, which extends all around for ab…
- Castelnuovo di Porto (RM)Castelnuovo di Porto is a municipality of a little under 9,000 inhabitants on Via Flaminia, about 30 kilometers north of Rome, with the old village…
- Cerveteri (RM)Cerveteri is a little over half an hour from Rome by car: 42 kilometers along the Aurelia or the Rome-Civitavecchia highway, exit Cerveteri-Ladispo…
- Cittareale (RI)Cittareale (RI) -
- Civita Castellana (VT)Civita Castellana is in the province of Viterbo, in the southern Tuscia, perched on a spur of red tuff about 80 kilometers from Rome along Via Flam…
- Civitella San Paolo (RM)Civitella San Paolo is a walled village of just over 2000 inhabitants in the province of Rome, on the right bank of the Tiber, about 40 kilometers…
- Collalto Sabino (RI)Collalto Sabino is a municipality in the province of Rieti, perched at 980 meters on the border between Lazio and Abruzzo, inside the boundaries of…
- Fabrica di Roma (VT)Fabrica di Roma is a town in Viterbo Province at the foot of the Cimini Mountains, a short distance from Lake Vico and about an hour by car from th…
- Faleria (VT)Faleria is a town of just over 2,000 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, at the southern tip of the province, where the countryside of the nort…
- Farnese (VT)Farnese is a town in Viterbo Province, postal code 01010, at 343 meters above sea level on a spur of tuff that looks west to Lake Bolsena and north…
- FondiFondi can be visited in half a day on foot, and what sets it apart from the other towns of southern Lazio is not the castle: it's the layout. The h…
- Forte AntenneForte Antenne
Via del Forte Antenne, 12
Roma
- Fumone (FR)Fumone (FR) stands 783 meters above sea level, on an isolated hill between the Ernici Mountains and the Lepini Mountains, in Frosinone Province. Th…
- Genazzano (RM)Genazzano (RM) - 00030 Genazzano RM
- Graffignano (VT)Graffignano is a municipality of just over 2,000 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, at 187 meters above sea level, on a tuff plateau overlooki…
- Guidonia MontecelioGuidonia Montecelio is a municipality of the metropolitan city of Rome, about 22 kilometers from the capital according to the Lazio Region's touris…
- Ischia di CastroIschia di Castro can be visited freely, on foot, on any day. The fixed point is the Pietro and Turiddo Lotti Civic Archaeological Museum, at Piazza…
- Isola del Liri (FR)Isola del Liri (FR) -
- Itri (LT)Itri (LT) is a municipality of a little over 10,000 residents in Latina Province, at 170 meters above sea level, in a valley of the Aurunci Mountai…
- Labro (RI)Labro is visited freely and on foot: it's a stone village in the province of Rieti, right on the border with Umbria, built on a hill overlooking La…
- Mausoleum of Cecilia MetellaThe Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella is the great cylindrical tomb that stands just before the third mile of Via Appia Antica, in Rome, and is probably…
- Montalto di Castro (VT)Montalto di Castro, about an hour and a half from Rome, is a small municipality with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, a jewel of the Tuscia in Lazio,…
- Montefiascone (VT)Montefiascone is in the province of Viterbo, in the Upper Tuscia of Lazio, perched on the cone of an ancient volcano that closes off the southeast…
- Nepi (VT)Nepi is in the province of Viterbo, in northern Lazio, about 50 kilometers north of Rome, perched on a triangular spur of tuff that the ravines hav…
- Nettuno (RM)Nettuno (RM) - Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini, 9, 00048 Nettuno RM
- Odescalchi Castle in BraccianoOdescalchi Castle in Bracciano - Piazza Mazzini, 14 - Bracciano (RM)
- Ostia Antica VillageOstia Antica Village - Piazza della Rocca, 13, 00119 Ostia Antica RM
- Palo Odescalchi Castle (Ladispoli)Palo Odescalchi Castle (Ladispoli) - Via Palo Laziale, 00055 Ladispoli RM
- Palombara Sabina (RM)You can wander around Palombara Sabina freely, but the two monuments that justify the trip open on tight schedules. Castello Savelli Torlonia, owne…
- Pico (FR)Pico is a town of about 2,600 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, at 192 meters above sea level, perched on a limestone spur right up against…
- Piglio (FR)Piglio is a town of about 4,300 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, at an elevation of 620 meters on the flank of Monte Scalambra, in the Mon…
- Porto Santo StefanoPorto Santo Stefano - Porto Santo Stefano (GR)
- 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…
- Roccasecca (FR)Roccasecca is in the province of Frosinone, in Ciociaria, about 130 km from Rome, which can be covered in an hour and a half on the A1 motorway (Ca…
- Rocchettine – Ghost Town (RI)Rocchettine is reached from Rocchette, a hamlet of the municipality of Torri in Sabina, in the province of Rieti: you leave the road that climbs to…
- San Michele in Teverina (VT)San Michele in Teverina (VT) is a hamlet (frazione) of the municipality of Civitella d'Agliano, in the province of Viterbo, in upper Tuscia, and no…
- San Polo dei Cavalieri (RM)San Polo dei Cavalieri (RM) is a castle village at 651 meters above sea level on the southern foothills of the Monti Lucretili, about 30 kilometers…
- Santa Marinella (RM)Santa Marinella, near Rome, is called by many the pearl of the Tyrrhenian!
- Santa Severa BeachSanta Severa Beach - Via del Castello, 00058 Santa Marinella RM
- Santa Severa CastleSanta Severa Castle, just over an hour from Rome, is a fascinating 14th century castle in the Santa Severa district of the municipality of Santa Ma…
- Sermoneta (LT)Sermoneta (LT) - Via della Fortezza, 04010 Sermoneta LT
- Soriano nel Cimino (VT)Soriano nel Cimino is in Viterbo Province, in the upper Tuscia, perched at about 510 meters above sea level against the northern flank of Monte Cim…
- Subiaco (RM)Subiaco (RM) - Piazza S. Maria della Valle, 12-16, 00028 Subiaco RM
- The Girandola of Castel Sant’AngeloThe Girandola was the fireworks show fired from the terrace of Castel Sant’Angelo on the great occasions of the Rome of the popes, and it is docume…
- Tolfa (RM)Tolfa (RM) - Via delle Mura, 12, 00059 Tolfa RM
- Trevi nel Lazio (FR)Trevi nel Lazio (FR) is a mountain village at 821 meters above sea level, in the province of Frosinone, postal code 03010, perched on the upper Ani…
- Trevignano Romano (RM)The address to start from is Piazza Vittorio Emanuele III, 1, 00069 Trevignano Romano (RM). It's the Town Hall building, and on its ground floor yo…
- Valentano (VT)Valentano is a town of about 2,800 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, at an elevation of 538 meters, on the ridge that separates Lake Bolsena…
- Vasanello (VT)Vasanello is in the province of Viterbo, at an elevation of 265 meters, on a tuff spur at the head of the Rio Palanza, a tributary of the Tiber, ab…
- Vicalvi (FR)Vicalvi is a scattered comune in the province of Frosinone, in the Valle di Comino, on the Lazio side of the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Par…
- Vignanello (VT)Vignanello is in the Tuscia of Viterbo, 18 km north of Viterbo, at 369 meters above sea level on the slopes of the Monti Cimini. By car you get the…
- Vulci (VT)Vulci (VT) - Circonvallazione Vulci, 1-20, 01014 Montalto di Castro VT
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