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Roma
If you’re looking to avoid the traffic and tourist crowds of Rome without missing out on a visit, Tivoli is the perfect choice.
Just thirty minutes away by highway or train, you can enjoy the tranquility and beauty of this charming town and its historic villas, only a few kilometers from the Eternal City.
It’s an ideal destination for those who wish to stay more than one night and explore the magnificent area surrounding the capital.
Tivoli and surroundings
A land rich in charm and culture. If you stay several days in Tivoli, you can quickly reach, in just a few kilometers, enchanting places full of history, frozen in time. A little-known tourism, all to be discovered and visited among ancient towns, places that have witnessed history, and medieval villages.
Ciciliano
The medieval village
A small ancient gem, perched with alleys, stairs, little squares, stone houses and portals that lead to the Theodoli Castle, at the highest part of the village just 15 kilometers from Tivoli.
First mentioned in the year 1000, when a document certified its transfer to the Abbey of Subiaco, it was likely already built about a century earlier. It belonged to the Colonna family and from the late fifteenth century to the papacy, but after the death of Alexander VI Borgia (1496-1503), who had given it to his children Cesare and Lucrezia, it returned to the important Roman family. In the sixteenth century it belonged to the Farnese, then again to the Colonna, and from 1563 to the Massimo family, before passing, in 1576, to the Theodoli family who still own it today.
Subiaco and the Sacred Cave of Saint Benedict
The Monastery of San Benedetto is one of the most significant spiritual places for the Church. Built almost a thousand years ago, its purpose is to guard the cave where the young Benedict of Norcia spent a period of hermit life before dedicating himself to cenobitic life.
The Sacro Speco is a highly evocative complex consisting of two superimposed churches and several chapels overhanging Mount Taleo. You enter the monastery through a narrow gallery adorned with frescoes from the first half of the 16th century by the school of Perugino.
On the side walls there is a cycle of frescoes whose scenes narrate significant episodes from the life of Saint Benedict. At the end of the first flight of stairs is the entrance to the Sacro Speco, the cave where the young Benedict lived for three years, as recalled by the statue by the sculptor Raggi (1657). Of notable importance is also a famous fresco of Saint Francis of Assisi portrayed during one of his visits to the monastery without stigmata or halo, an authentic painting and therefore made while the Saint was still alive.
The San Benedetto pond is without a doubt one of the coolest and most evocative destinations in Lazio.
It originates from the Aniene river, which begins in Subiaco, in a narrow and deep gorge a few kilometers from the town center. Characterized by its roaring natural waterfall, the pond is located near the ruins of Nero's Villa and the Monastery of Santa Scolastica before the Sacred Cave.