Top 5 Castles around Bellegra

The Rocca dei Colonna was erected on the highest point of the acropolis in 970 AD. The initial building had a square plan with corner towers also with a square base, and housed a cylindrical tower used as a prison. Some famous people were imprisoned there, including San Berardo, bishop of the Marsi, Jacopone da Todi and Corradino di Svevia. Over the centuries, the fortress was destroyed several times; in 1482, the fortress was renovated and the event is remembered by the inscription on the turret of the small bridge "magnificus dominus Stephanus Columna readificavit civitatem cum monte et arte MCDLXXXII".

A museum-not-museum in the heart of the Rocca Abbaziale, a multimedia journey enriched with reconstructions of historical instruments to understand the role of communication in the development of civilization and to remember the records of Subiaco. It was in Subiaco, in the monastery of Santa Scolastica, that the first book with movable type in the history of Italy was printed. The MACS helps to retrace the stages of this invention that contributed to the transformation of an entire era.

Large castle complex overlooking the city. Abbey Fortress of Subiaco The Rocca Abbaziale di Subiaco, also called Rocca dei Borgia, is a thousand-year-old place where you can travel through the history of a municipality, among precious works of art and bold architecture. From its gardens you can admire a unique panorama of the Aniene valley, while the noble apartments offer a view of important cycles of paintings and decorations. Everything contributes to conveying the charm of a building that was the first home of Lucrezia Borgia. The Museum MACS - Museum of Paper and Printing Activities A museum-not-museum in the heart of the Rocca Abbaziale, a multimedia journey enriched with reconstructions of historical instruments to understand the role of communication in the development of civilization and to remember the records of Subiaco.

Very beautiful and lively village, the oven is notable which alone is worth the visit.

very very nice village

With its height of 763 meters above sea level, it overlooks the western quadrant of Rome and the Cannucceta Valley

Paliano, whose origins date back to antiquity, nestled between the Prenestini and Ernici mountains, is inextricably linked to the name of the Colonna family, who had one of their cornerstones here. The period of greatest development for Paliano was the seventeenth century. The Palazzo Ducale dates from this period, built at the behest of Filippo Colonna with the adjacent Collegiate Church of S. Andrea, burial place of the family and the Fortress, which dominates the entire valley of the river Sacco, now a maximum security prison. Noteworthy in it is the pictorial cycle (attributed to Zuccari and his school) which represents Marcantonio Colonna's triumphal entry into Rome after the battle of Lepanto (1571). Today Paliano is still surrounded by walls with three access gates to the city and with ramparts arranged in green. Paliano owes notoriety also to its naturalistic and landscape aspects. (source: https://www.ciociariaturismo.it/it/la-ciociaria/i-91-comuni/tutti91comuni/120-paliano.html)

Perched on the top of Mount Ginestro (763 meters above sea level), 40 km from Rome, the village has a long history, which begins in the late Bronze Age (15th-14th century BC), as evidenced by the ceramics recently found in the upper part of the mountain, referable to the first inhabited nucleus. From it in the following centuries originated the city of Praeneste, the current Palestrina, famous in Roman times for the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia. The top of the mountain became the seat of the acropolis and the cult of Jupiter Arkanus. The rites related to the augurium and auspicium practices were also held there. The ring of polygonal walls of the sixth century BC that surrounds the acropolis, is part of the entire circuit of fortifications, about 4.5 km long, which also encloses the underlying city of Palestrina. In the 6th century AD the site became the seat of a Benedictine monastery, where Pope Gregory the Great stayed. In the twelfth century the territory entered the fiefs of the Colonna family who built a castrum here with a strategic-military function, destroyed in the clash with the papacy, a first time in 1298 under Boniface VIII and a second time with Eugenio IV in 1436-37. The reconstruction of the fortress in 1482 led to the development of the village and the use of the ancient castrum for civil and administrative activities. In the seventeenth century, with the sale of the fief to the Barberinis, the town underwent substantial urban transformations. Where the Benedictine monastery once stood, the Barberinis rebuilt the church of San Pietro Apostolo, placing its entrance on the new square in front. On what is now the main square of the village, a century later the Mocci family built the family palace. In the 1950s Castel San Pietro Romano became famous thanks to the cinema. Its mayor Adolfo Porry Pastorel, father of Italian photojournalism, convinced Luigi Comencini to set Pane, amore e fantasia (1953) there. Still starring Vittorio De Sica, scenes of Bread, love and jealousy were shot in 1954, while in 1958 it was Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia who continued the fresco of the Italian province after the war with Tuppe tuppe, Marescià! Just outside the center, the Cannuccete Valley is a protected natural area that extends for about twenty hectares. The park is home to the typical flora and fauna of the Lazio hilly and submontane landscape. Inside you can see the remains of the pre-Roman aqueduct coeval with the polygonal walls (6th century BC), built by Greek labor, as evidenced by some letters of the Greek alphabet on the walls of the conduit.