ADVANTAGES OF STAY

The stay at Castel Madama close to the wealth of the Eternal City, gives the opportunity to visit with short trips, the precious historical, cultural and religious sites of the Val of Aniene: the Villas of Tivoli, the Monasteries of Subiaco and the Sanctuary of the Mentorella and so on.

Hardly out the metropolitan chaos, Castel Madama is immersed in the landscape of the Roman hills. Here you can enjoy the natural beauty and the Mediterranean food based on oil of olive, free range meat, cheeses, organic vegetables, wines and sweets and pastries: all products of the local farms.

Just on these lands, two thousand years ago, the “rustic villas” (many ruins of which are still visible) produced food for the capital of the great Roman Empire.

Castel Madama is amongst the few towns of the world to have ancient Roman Aqueducts. The remains of the Aqueduct are still well visible and integrated in the natural landscape. The sources that fed them two thousand years ago even today bring water of high quality and purity to Castel Madama and then to Rome. During your stay you can confidently drink from every fountain or faucet.

The territory of Castel Madama allow you to walk or to horseback ride withing the common land of Universitrà Agraria along paths crossing woods and pastures, meeting ruins of Roman villas and sites of geologic interest.

The history of this land

Cabreo dei Beni del Marchese Pallavicino, 1715 (Università Agraria di Castel Madama)
Colle Scarano, costa Cesarina, Truglio

Villa Pietro RomanoVilla is located at the foot of Colle Scarano, that in the north descends slowly toward the river Aniene. A few meters from the Villa are the ruins of the Roman aqueducts, in fact it's easy to find some small pieces of tiles, bricks, amphorae the age of about two thousand years.
Beginning in feudal'400, on these lands prevailed cultivation of the vine, we can see it on the pages of Cabreo of the baron Pallavicino, the photos above their.
Towards the end of'700 has developed the cultivation of olive that still characterizes the landscape of Villa Pietro Romano.
When Rome became the capital, towards the end of'800 the trade begins to grow up between Rome and neighboring castales, as it was in the days of imperial Rome. Our grandparents cultivated fruit trees: cherries, apples, peaches, plums and then sell the crops on the markets of Rome. Some of these trees, that my grand-grandfather planted, still give good fruits.