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Lazio Region.

A promontory of white houses on the Tyrrhenian, a harbour beneath a Saracen tower and, at the end of the beach, the grotto where the emperor Tiberius had his guests dine. Lazio begins at Sperlonga and climbs inland, where every August the abbey of Fossanova returns to the Middle Ages and every February Frosinone sends its general to the stake.

Provinces of Latina and Frosinone Sperlonga · Fossanova · Frosinone

Sperlonga.

The village seen from the sea and walked on foot: the coastal lake, the western beach, the tower that watches over the harbour, and the archaeological site at the foot of the cliff.

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01:30 Sperlonga, Lazio

What you will see

01Lago Lungo
02Old town and western beach
03Torre Truglia
04Old town, harbour side
05Grotto of Tiberius

The coast between Terracina and Gaeta is the Riviera of Ulysses: the name comes from the places the Odyssey sets around here, which at Sperlonga have become a museum and a trail of murals.

The giant bench.

On top of the hill above the archaeological site stands an oversized bench, painted the blue of the fishing boats. You climb onto it the way you did as a child and look out across the gulf as far as the Pontine islands.

03:16 The giant bench

The medieval festival of Fossanova.

Every August, for three days, the village of Fossanova goes back to the Middle Ages around its Cistercian abbey: flag-throwers, bagpipes and minstrels, choirs, fire-eaters, merchants and innkeepers among the stone houses and the cloister.

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Traditions

01:12 Fossanova, Priverno

The historic carnival of Frosinone.

On Shrove Tuesday Frosinone takes to the streets with the radeca, the long agave leaf that everyone waves above their heads. The festival recalls the town's revolt against the French troops in 1798-99 and ends at night, with the trial of General Championnet and his effigy burnt at the stake. Before that, the carnival opens from the balcony of the town hall, and allegorical floats and masks parade through the streets of the old town.

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Traditions

04:04 Frosinone, February 2024

Video Città di Frosinone and Pro Loco Frosinone

What you will see

01The opening from the town hall balcony
02Trumpets and the radeca at the tower
03Masks in the streets of the old town
04The parade of allegorical floats, from above
05The radeca festival: the band, the dances, a square full of agave leaves
06Night, the torchlight procession and the bonfire

The path of Ulysses.

Nine murals along via Lebina tell the Odyssey on the white walls of the village: Polyphemus, Nausicaa, Penelope, and at the end Ulysses drawing the bow.

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