Campoli Appennino is a small town in the province of Frosinone in the south of Lazio. It is 30kms from the city of Frosinone and about 100 kms east of Rome, in the middle of the mountains. The number of inhabitants is less than two thousand.
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Top 10 tourist attractions Arsoli
Although Arsoli is a very small town, the layout of its historical center and its architectural design enticed the writer Luigi Pirandello to call it “Little Paris” (Piccola Parigi). It is located some 60 Kms east of Rome.
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Fregene is a small beach town near Rome, one of the more popular ones of its kind amongst the more wealthy part of the population of the Italian capital. This was especially the case in the 60’s and 70’s when actors, writers and other members of the La Bella Vita crowd flocked here during the summer months. Officially Fregene is a suburb of the municipality of Fiumicino.
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On March 19 and 20, 2011 visitors to Velletri, near Rome, will be awaited by beautiful camellia gardens, part of the annual Festival of Camellias (Festa delle Camelie), one of the most famous of its kind in Europe.
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Grottaferrata is located to the south west of Rome, near the airport and city of Ciampino. It is a small town of around 20 thousand inhabitants and is mostly known for its abbey, the Basilian Monastery of Saint Mary, also known as the Abbey of Saint Nilus (Abbazia di San Nilo).
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The Abbey of Saint Nilus in Grottaferrata was founded by Saint Nilus in the year 1004, at the exact spot where the Virgin Mary appeared to the saint and told him to found a church in her honor. The official name of the Abbey is Exarchic Greek Abbey of St. Mary of Grottaferrata.
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Subiaco is a municipality at around 67 km from Rome, near the river Aniene, in the middle of the Parco Naturale Regionale dei Monti Simbruini, a protected wildlife area. Its inhabitants are called Sublacensi.
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After Saint Benedict had spent 3 years living alone in a cave in the mountains around Subiaco he started developing a following and founded his first monastery there.
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The Monastery of Saint Scholastica is located to the east of the city of Subiaco and was originally known as Monastery of Saint Sylvester, but in the 9th century it was renamed Monastery of the Saints Benedict and Scholastica. In the 14th century Benedict was dropped and it became simply the Monastery of Saint Scholastico.
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The city of Magliano Sabina can be found in a hilly area (the Monti Sabini) in the northern part of the province of Rieti, close to the Umbrian border.
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