Experience Roman life like Romans do. Discover Lake Bracciano and the other rioni.
Uncover the city’s living history. Rione maps Rome’s ancient quarters dynamically — unlocking subterranean layers, hidden stories and local secrets right where you stand.
Dynamic, interactive boundaries of all of Rome’s historical rioni, colour-coded and tappable.
Every monument with photos, history and the stories beneath the stones.
Raised by the powerful Orsini family in the 15th century and later owned by the Odescalchi, this is one of the best-preserved and most beautiful baronial castles in Italy — a textbook fortress of round towers and battlements that has never been taken by force in its entire history.
Filling a huge volcanic crater, Lake Bracciano is so clean it serves as a strategic drinking-water reserve for Rome, which means motorboats are banned — leaving the water to swimmers, sailing boats and windsurfers in unusual peace.
On the northern shore, Trevignano is the prettiest of the lake towns: a single graceful lakefront promenade lined with fish restaurants, watched over by the ruins of another Orsini castle on the hill above.
Built on a little promontory jutting into the lake, the medieval centre of Anguillara is a tangle of stepped lanes climbing to a terrace with sweeping water views. Its name comes from the eels ('anguille') once fished here, and its silhouette — houses rising straight from the water — is one of the lake's iconic sights.