| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter March 2010
Journey in the southern Lazio countryside
Topic : Parks - Nature
The Italian spring is now behind the corner in Southern Lazio, the smell of the wild flowers’ blossom will soon be overpowering. At the beginning of March, the first warmer days after the short grip of the southern Italy winter announces the beginning of a long and gorgeous spring. The sunlight for longer and sunnier days is an invitation to explore the unspoiled countryside in a territory over rolling hills and rugged mountains, among hidden valleys and unfrequented roads, leads to the discovery the local rural traditions. As you make your way walking in this Mediterranean countryside where you can catch glimpses of the Tyrrhenian Sea through the ancient olive groves, you will see very old monuments and ruins, silent witnesses of millennia of history. Hiking, passing the magnificent scenery of the South Pontino countryside is a wonderful life-refreshing experience to enrich your soul in a beautiful corner of Italy.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter December 2009
The Ausoni Mountains in southern Lazio , Italy
Topic : Parks - Nature
The Ausoni Mountains, a Tyrrhenian coastal mountain range of central Italy were chosen as our exploration area discovering the art, nature and archaeological remains of the these mountains and their history. A precious guide for connoisseur travelers traveling to the south of Imperial Rome and interested to the local flavors, crafts and hospitality of rural Italy.
This is a true slice of undiscovered Italy with landscapes which make your soul sing and your eyes enjoy the scenery of a silent and peaceful countryside. A real exploration of places around the south of the oldest imperial capital in the world. Our exploration is meant to be the first journey to discover this pastoral territory of southern Lazio along ancient roads and itineraries that from Rome radiate throughout the south of Lazio. Our journey through the local history and traditions aims to unveil the archaeological, artistic, cultural and natural beauty of ancient roads and villages dispersed over the enchanted scenery of the southern Italian countryside.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter October 2009
Tiberius cave and imperial villa in Sperlonga
Topic : Archaeology
Half way between Rome and Naples there is a special place where history blends with myth and natural beauty of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Here, in fact, is located the Cave of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor descending from the gens Claudia, who ruled Rome and the Empire. 2000 years ago’ Tiberius built here one of the most eccentric and unusual imperial residences in a gigantic marine cave.
We are in a holiday resort favored by prominent personalities of the ancient Romans, among the hills, lakes and sea. The fascinating medieval towers were built later, in defense against the pirates raiding the Tyrrhenian Sea, give us unique glimpses and views of the past. The sea of Sperlonga, one of the cleanest in Italy and the natural oases and parks surrounding the area are the jewels of a landscape remained somewhat intact after many centuries of history.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter August 2009
Italy,hiking in Lazio. Mt.Petrella,the Aurunci Mountains’ highest Peak
Topic : Itineraries
Far from the mass tourism of Rome and Naples, the Aurunci Mountains for long time have been the silent witnesses of these solitary territories in the southern Lazio. Their fascinating landscapes of sunny, rugged peaks and wild gorges are protected by the distance from the big cities and by the lack of easy access roads. Until not long ago’when the Aurunci Mountains Natural Park was created in 1997 most of the excursionists and walkers were not aware of these mountains so close to the South Tyrrhenian Sea.
These majestic and lonely mountains deserve the nick name of ‘terraces over the sea’ because they are the closest Italian mountains over 1,500 mt high to the Mediterranean Sea. This article describes one the itineraries right in the heart of the Natural Park to conquest the Aurunci Mountains’ highest peak: Mount Petrella at 1533 meters above the sea with sceneries of outstanding beauty.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter June 2009
Italy, Lazio. The South Pontino local gourmet guide. PART IV
Topic : Gastronomy - Wines
This is the third chapter of our Italian Gourmet Guide. This time we will help you discovering the traditional southern Lazio seaside gastronomy with advice on what to eat and where to find typical restaurants and osterie serving the most common and typical dishes. Food is a meeting point with a totally different culture and way of life. The seaside cuisine will transform your trip to Southern Lazio, Italy as one of the best experiences of your life. After leaving the South Pontino you will have eaten some of the most wonderful food you have ever tasted prepared by some of the nicest, most hospitable people you will have met in your life and among some of the most beautiful sights in Italy.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter May 2009
Italy, Lazio. The South Pontino local gourmet guide PART III
Topic : Gastronomy - Wines
This is the third chapter of our Italian Gourmet Guide with our objective to provide clear, up to date information to international gourmet travelers about Italian traditional local cuisine of southern Lazio. We will help you discovering the traditional local mountain and land cuisine with practical advice on where to find typical restaurants and osterie serving the most common and typical dishes. This is a gastronomic and cultural journey that will take you to discover and taste the very best of our culinary traditions and the essential character of our people and their deep-rooted sense of hospitality typical of rural Italy. Along these local routes we are accompanied by the natural beauty of the landscapes of the Aurunci Mountains Regional Park and the view of ancient villages with their architectural beauty, offering good insights into the southern Lazio folklore and history.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter April 2009
Italy, Lazio. The South Pontino local gourmet guide . PART II
Topic : Gastronomy - Wines
The rural soul of southern Lazio, its history, traditions are the territory real treasure and heritage. This is a true wealth and legacy often forgotten, but that fundamentally remains to be the heart of the place. With Our Gourmet Guide we continue our cultural and geographic journey into the local cuisine of the South Pontino in Italy, exploring all the historical factors behind the ancient art of cooking and the legacy of all these factors with the territory’s deep-rooted rural world. We explored the best and most genuine itineraries to discover the traditions of the rural cuisine and its seasonal ingredients of this land of sea and mountains. It is in the old, traditional rural culture with its recipes that you try the typical products, faithful custodies of genuine flavors, ancient traditions and history of southern Lazio, the region of Rome.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter March 2009
Italy, Lazio. The South Pontino local gourmet guide
Topic : Gastronomy - Wines
This is the first chapter of our Italian Gourmet Guide which will help you discovering a the local gastronomy of the South Pontino in southern Lazio, Italy. We will unveil what secrets makes the Italian local cuisine so various, interesting and full of flavor. This is an insight journey into the local culinary culture revealing what there is behind the special relationship between Italians and food. Why are the ingredients so fresh? How are the ingredients produced, distributed and sold? Where is best to buy? Where are the best typical restaurants with mouth-watering local dishes and excellent regional wines? This is a journey among the products of land and sea, reflecting the very best of our culinary traditions, the heritage of our people and their ancient traditions of hospitality. Our Gourmet Guide will explore all this along routes with natural and architectural beauty, offering compelling insights into our folklore and history.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter February 2009
Hiking in Italy , winter walks on the Aurunci Mountains of Lazio
Topic : Parks - Nature
Winter is a great season to travel around in Italy without restraint and inexpensively with not much crowd and better priced accommodation. Despite the fascination of Rome, true travelers can unveil corners of real Italy by exploring the nearby territories of the Lazio region. Just 100 Km south of Rome a rugged mountainous massif of the Aurunci Mountains dominates the coast around the beautiful Gulf of Gaeta. Hiking and nature lovers can find majestic natural sceneries unveiling the hidden beauty of Italy’s rural landscapes that are off the beaten track with a network of ancient shepherd's trails and consular routes which have been used for millennia preserving their ancient features. This is a corner of real, lesser known Italy, a slow Italy with small villages far away from the typical tourist routes on the sunny mountains of the South Pontino in southern Lazio.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter January 2009
Hiking on the Aurunci Mountains. The mountain Valley of Sciro
Topic : Itineraries
This month we describe one of the interesting hiking itineraries to discover the mountains and nature of the South Pontino in Lazio (Italy). This is a beautiful shepherds’ area on the southern Aurunci Mountains, a hidden valley enclosed among the peaks of Mt Ruazzo (1314 mt) and Mt Tuonaco (1170 mt).
To reach the isolated and hidden valley among the mountains we climbed the forest on the eastern flank of Mount Ruazzo. Hikers and nature lovers can explore the wild beauty of these Mediterranean mountains among a very ancient network of tracks used only by shepherds and woodsmen. Here you can admire a small, secluded and almost forgotten valley with its magic landscape of waves made of primordial rocks, recounting an old story of hundreds of millions of years.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter December 2008
Palmarola, Italy undiscovered island
Topic : Parks - Nature
Our journey among the Pontine islands continues with Palmarola. On the islands of Ponza and Ventotene travelers can take pleasure in the company of the islanders whilst enjoying their typical local wines, and the beauty of colorful houses, fields and gardens surrounded by the sea. However, imagine the same natural beauty without crowds or many other tourists where the most beautiful landscapes are enjoyed by sailing around and between the islands. The feeling of remoteness of the Pontine archipelago is even stronger on the smaller islands like Palmarola where no one lives. Here there aren’t ports or attractive, colorful houses found at Ponza and Ventotene. Walkers and nature lovers can enjoy the wonderful scenery of cliffs and fields with wild flowers and herbs, rocks and prickly Mediterranean cactuses surrounded only by crystal clear marine waters and blue sky.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter November 2008
Undiscovered Italy: Gavi and Zannone Islands, two Mediterranean pearls
Topic : Itineraries
This time you will follow us in the discovery of Zannone and Gavi, two the smaller Pontine Islands archipelago. Hardly any travelers arrive here. There are few safe dockings and no tourist facilities even if no special authorization is necessary to visit these remote and uninhabited islands in the middle of the South Tyrrhenian Sea. A day-trip itinerary in direct contact with the sea, nature, history and geology of the Pontine archipelago. These small islands are a complete surprise for nature and sea lovers: they offer itineraries among handful of multicolored rocks risen from the deep blue sea hundred millions of years ago and surrounded by marvelous crystalline waters. Here encounters with dolphins and whales are frequent and migrant birds from Africa nest undisturbed. This is a corner of untouched Mediterranean beauty at its best.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter October 2008
Undiscovered Italy: Pontine Islands, hidden jewels in the Tyrrhenian
Topic : Itineraries
This time we explore the Pontine Islands off the coast of the South Pontino. These remote islands are known only to local seamen, fishermen and sailing lovers. They are inspiring a feeling of peaceful remoteness, places where small and temporary human settlements have come and gone during the millennia of history of this corner of the Mediterranean and where time seems to have stopped. The cyclopean walls left on Ponza the largest of these islands are the marks on an ancient past when the Phoenicians and Greeks inhabited here after colonization by the Aurunci tribes. Tourists are on the islands mainly in July and September and during the rest of the year these islands are back into their own distant dimension wrapped magically by their remoteness framed by the deep blue of the open sea.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter August 2008
Undiscovered Italy: Gaeta, a place of light on the sea
Topic : Towns
This month we come back to our beloved Gaeta and its beautiful gulf on the South Tyrrhenian Sea. Whilst many people seem to know the beauty of Amalfi and Sorrento coast, many travel books and guides does not even make mention of this wonderful medieval town of southern Lazio. The beautiful scenery offered by the nearby coastline and the landscape of countryside, mountains and hills dotted with small villages around Gaeta is the frame to this beautiful and ancient seaside town. Gaeta is a place wrapped by a intense and bright sunlight where the sea breeze and the view over the open space on the sea brings energy and reinvigorate people’s soul from within. Gaeta has a long history which has left fascinating marks with its fortress on the sea, the cathedral and Normans, Moorish, Byzantine and Greek architecture influences.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter July 2008
Minturno’s Roman Ruins, a voyage through history (part 2)
Topic : Archaeology
In July 2008 newsletter we continue to describe the wonders of Minturnae, the ancient ruins of a Roman port next to the mouth of the river Garigliano. Ater the river we enter the South Pontino southern coast. Minturnae is today a magnificent outdoor museum describing the tales of this old Roman colony. After the initial excavations groups of expert archaeologists have tried successfully to reconstruct the daily life of the town, a lively Roman port for 600 years. But ancient Minturnae most recent discoveries are trying to unveil a remote past which span many centuries before the Romans’ age. Minturnae on the border between southern Lazio and northern Campania will transport you back in time as you walk among its majestic ruins. Here we reveal what archaeologists found and are hoping to discover in the future in this spectacular archaeological site with more than 3,000 years of history behind.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter June 2008
Minturno’s Roman Ruins: A Voyage through History
Topic : Archaeology
On the border between the regions of Lazio and Campania next to the mouth of the river Garigliano on this initial stretch of the South Pontino coast there is a spectacular archaeological site that span more than 3,000 years of history: the ancient Minturnae, an important settlement of the ancient Rome will transport you back in time as you walk among the spectacular ruins.
Minturnae was prominent in antiquity as a lively Roman colony and port during Rome’s first 600 years of history. Among the remains here is the amazing Roman theatre and several other archaeological treasures. The entire area and the countryside around recount the tale of a Roman colony which started 2,300 years ago’. The itinerary can include the area of Suio were you can still experience the same luxury as the wealthy Roman did: the ancient roman baths called “Aquae Vescinae”, the local thermal waters with important curative properties among the most important in Europe. (Ancient Minturnae Part 1)
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter May 2008
Italy off the beaten track: Natural Monument of Fondi’s Lake
Topic : Parks - Nature
May in South Pontino means the full blooming of the Italian springtime. This month we have chosen a special place to portrait the natural beauty of this land: The Lake of Fondi. Our itinerary is for nature and ancient heritage lovers wishing to explore the natural beauty of Fondi Lake, its countryside and fields with the Ausoni and Aurunci mountains framing the fertile plain around.
Only 2 miles away, seaside lovers will find 13 kilometers of long, white sandy Mediterranean beaches between Terracina and Sperlonga along the SS213 Via Flacca, the same road built by the ancient Romans in184 BC - By Driving north on the Via Flacca from Gaeta, travelers will discover one of the loveliest
sections of the coast of Lazio in the discovery of art, nature, archaeological ruins before enjoying the quietness and natural beauty of the Lake of Fondi.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter April 2008
Undiscovered Italy: Terracina, sea, history and countryside
Topic : Itineraries
In our April 2008 newsletter we present a day trip itinerary from Gaeta to discover the town of Terracina right in the middle of the South Pontino, Latium, Italy. Terracina is located 100 Km (62 miles) south from Rome and 120 Km (74 miles) north from Naples.
The picturesque modern town of Terracina occupies the site of the old one. The town is the largest of the South Pontino but still preserves much of the beauty of its long history (at least 2,500 years!). Those who enjoy the countryside as well as the sea need only to choose their preferred beach or explore the hills few miles inland from the town to reach interesting places on the Ausoni Mountains. Once there visitors will admire a unspoiled countryside with the hilly valley of Campo Soriano Natural Monument and the Madonnina di Monte Leano, which overlooks the Pontine Marshes plain. But there is much more to explore around. In fact Terracine is an important archeological site with ancient Roman, Etrurian, Volsci ruins.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter February 2008
Italy countryside: The South Pontino in Latium
Topic : Itineraries
Even though is still winter and it’s still cold out there, in some days the sun rays remind us that the spring time is just behind the corner. For all countryside and nature lovers families will be soon the time to explore the Italian countryside in southern Latium 70 miles away south of Rome.
Most of South Pontino territory in Latium, and three quarters of its picturesque villages are located over hills and mountains, adding an uncommon geographic characteristic to this territory washed by the sea for its entire length, but also flanked by a parallel range of rugged hills and mountains. The variety of South Pontino’s landscape is like a mosaic shaped with Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Campania’s countryside. Our February 2008 newsletter will give you an impression of the rural South Pontino: the countryside.
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| Click here to see the newsletter | Newsletter January 2008
The Italian property market today, Lazio, Italy: the South Pontino
Topic : Real Estate News
In our January 2008 newsletter we aimed to give you useful information about the Italian property market at both national and local level. This corner of Italy the South Pontino is blessed with many medieval seaside and hilltop towns and villages framed by beautiful landscapes studded with attractive homes. Even more appealing is the fact that such gems are close to Rome at less than 2 hours driving or 1 hour by train. The trouble is finding them. “It’s all word of mouth around here”. In this month newsletter you will find out about how the Italian real estate market relates to the subprime economic tornado and how Italian mortgage lenders and consumers reacted plus a special focus on the properties of the village of Itri where our company operates.
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