Magnificence tour.

Frascati, Grottaferrata. - Dominating the city of Frascati, Villa Aldobrandini, which was built from 1558 to 1602 by Cardinal Aldobrandini, nephew of the Pope. Majestic with a central building and two symmetrical side wings, it overlooks the main square, lined with trees and home to a war memorial. Of the war. To reach St. Peter's Square, take the tree-lined avenue, wide and panoramic on the city of Rome.

In the square we are welcomed by the eighteenth-century monumental fountain of the Fontana and the facade of the Cathedral of San Pietro, in Baroque style. Continue to Grotteferrata, where you can visit the imposing Abbey of San Nilo, designed by Antonio San Gallo in 1400, commissioned by Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere. Like a fortress, it has crenellated perimeter walls, a square plan and turreted at the corners. The Abbey, consisting of the Palazzo del Commendatario and the Church, was built on the remains of the Roman Villa of Marco Tullio Cicero in 1400. The Archaeological Museum is set up in the Commendatory, seat of the abbot treasurer, where the statue of a young reader, emblem of the Museum and the library, containing the largest collection of Byzantine books. In the bright rooms you can visit the finds of the Roman villas, the art collection of the Abbots and the ancient entrance portal, built by articulating fragments of the Roman era. Finally, the Church of Santa Maria preserves the original structure of the twelfth century. Of this you can admire the bell tower with five series of three-light windows and with polychrome tiles and the Cripta Ferrata, with the candle holder that illuminates the rocky altar.