Lazio

Lazio is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy. The capital of Lazio is Rome, which is also Italy's capital and the country's largest city. Lazio is one of the most important regions for Italian, European and world culture, for its historical, artistic, archaeological, architectural and religious contents. The immense extraordinary heritage of the city of Rome is just one of the hundreds of points of interest among countries, churches, monasteries, monuments and various sites in the region. In Lazio, Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este in Tivoli and the Etruscan Necropolis of Cerveteri and Tarquinia are among the most important archaeological sites. Other tourist sites are Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli, the monasteries of Montecassino, Subiaco, the medieval castles of the valley of comino located in the neighboring countries at the borders of Ciociaria with the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, the Franciscan shrines of Greccio.