Vita da butteri.. Living like cowboys in Italy. Trip to Lazio

A journey back in time between a ghost town, hot springs, wild meadows and a castle on the lake.

 

Walking around the Roman countryside

DOC by real people do not always realize that our ancestors were immersed in a different environment with someone with teriitorio very different from ours, this reflexion, but also to enjoy even a glimpse of holiday behind the comeback, we We embarked on a location in reality not too far from Rome, talking about mileage, but charmingly distant from our everyday life.
The first step is to Monterano Channel, a small village shortly after Manziana and its woods, delightfully refined, with a bakery that prepares delicious cookies and cakes dry really remarkable!
Going through a sort of mule, a legacy of the ancient Etruscan road, we arrive at the wooden gate, like that of American ranch, so we leave the car and decide to go down a path that leads to iron river below, to nearby pools of water warm and beautiful surrounding pastures.
The descent is not easy, but the satisfaction nell'approdare near the river, bordered by a grove, it repays the effort.
The environment around us is more diverse than ever: the river with Sconda grass, wooden fences for livestock, which still do not see around, a bridge, also of wood, where they turned the movie dell'Arma Brancaleone pools of hot sulphurous water ...
is very nice to walk around here and look around with prying eyes!
We follow for a while 'the river and find ourselves in a decidedly Western! Cows and horses grazing and cabins for the shelter of the cowboys, the cowboy from our own (but do not call them because they get angry!)
sit on the bank of the river and swilling a bit 'fresh water that flows: how far the city!

In the ghost city

After the trip to the bakery at the new country, Channel Monterano, we start to explore the ghost town, the ancient Monterano.
His story is very special, because it seems he was very prosperous and flourishing of this I am witness to the church and the old town, with a fountain Decíase large and beautiful, seems Bernini or school.
Unfortunately, due to epidemics, and perhaps even some earthquake, the city was gradually emptied and the people settled in an area a bit 'more protected, not far from the canyon that the river had carved over millennia, the current Channel Monterano.
The nature recur seize the limestone spur on which stood various plants and Monterano cover houses, palaces, fountains, churches, giving a very mysterious air to the place: it is said that he was also haunted!
From these few reports it is easy to imagine how fantastic explore these places that have been rediscovered in recent years and partly restored Here, too, have been filmed several movies, including the Marchese del Grillo!
The green in the ruins ocher and honey is beautiful and there's plenty of room to play and make the picnic!

Life in the castle

Today we go in Bracciano, a center a bit 'bigger than Monterano Channel, with a beautiful old town, dominated by the Orsini Odescalchi castle, still inhabited in part by the heirs of the noble family.
We queued at a gentle Judas tells us a lot of things as they move through the various rooms of the castle.
Thus we find that many celebrities have stayed here, as Lucrezia Borgia!
The environments are very well kept and there are views of the lake Zono truly spectacular!
Among the last things we see the kitchen: there were very large fireplaces in each of which could cook a whole cow!

Relax on the shores of the lake

Today we relax a bit 'at the lake: the lake of Bracciano was very comfortable and shady banks of a water clear and fresh, too bad it's paved with stones that make a bad dog to walk and are too slippery! But we muniamo of sandals from possimao rock so we plunge with confidence!
Now that's life!