Castel San Pietro Romano

In 1953 Gina Lollobrigida filmed Pane, amore e fantasia here, with the village playing the fictional Sagliena. It stands at 765 metres on the last spurs of the Monti Prenestini, above Palestrina, with lookouts over the Valle del Sacco towards the edge of Rome. At the top rises the Rocca dei Colonna, where the imprisoned Jacopone da Todi wrote the Stabat Mater.

Highlights

• Rocca dei Colonna, the fortress where Conradin was held in 1268
• Pre-Roman polygonal walls, dated to the 7th century BC
• San Pietro Apostolo, enlarged by Nicola Michetti in 1732, with its outer portico
• Teatro Belvedere di Ponente, an open-air amphitheatre facing the valley

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