The Park:
Parco Madonna del Sorbo is a natural park 25 km. from Rome, one of the best-reserved areas in Italy. The name comes from the 17th century monastery - built on the ruins of a medieval village - at the center of the park and in front of the villas. Fauna is composite: wild boars, foxes, weasels, wood cocks, buzzards, falcons, kingfishers and Maremma's cows.The wide and old forest shelters holm oaks, oaks, chestnuts and lots of ferns on a fresh brook, named Cremera, which crosses the wood, jumps from small waterfalls and springs up at hand. On Cremera for the first time Romans ( headed by Furio Camillo ) had beaten Etruscans on 396 BC, after a ten years war. On the hill beneath the property are two Etruscan graves and a tunnel excavated in the rocks.
Sightseeings:
Rome is 30 minutes by car or by train (there is a metro station in Cesano 10 minutes by car). You can see Rome by day and, when too hot, go back to the fresh countryside and the swimming pool. Fifteen kilometres from the house there is the Lake of Bracciano where are available sailing boats, wind surf and canoes. Thirthy to sixthy minutes by car there are the Etruscan, paleochristian and medieval Villages of Viterbo, Sutri, Cerveteri, Tarquinia and Tuscania and the famous mannerist Palace Farnese of Caprarola (Viterbo). The Tyrrhenian sea is about 40 minutes from the Property. If you want to visit other places than Rome, rent a car is suggested.
Course of ceramic mosaic:
The host Anna Pantanella keeps in villas also a , Course of Ceramic Mosaic to teach in two days (4 hours per day) the basics of this technique.
