One afternoon in the beautiful spa town of Ciociaria for a special interview with Luciano Fontana, director of Corriere della Sera (the most important Italian newspaper), by the journalist Daniela Vergara of RAI. Exceptional guests: Maurizio Stirpe, patron of Frosinone and vice president of Confindustria, and Gianfranco Battisti, managing director Read more…
Anticolandia is the Festival of Music and Popular Traditions held since 2006 in the historical center of Fiuggi near the Piazzale del Monumento and public gardens. It is divided into a series of days characterized by popular traditions and good music and folk dances. During the days the party hosts Read more…
Saltarello is life. It is a dance of life, of liberation, of challenge. Saltarello contains a world of messages, proposals, waste, gambling, outburst, union and jealousy. Saltarello is an ancient dance. They danced almost always outdoors, on the farmyards, after intense working days in the harvest, in the wheat harvest Read more…
19 to 22 July A car racing competition that starts from Ciociaria and arrives in Rome on the Ostia seafront on Sunday evening. The rally is one of the competitions inside of the Italian Rally Championship and has been inserted by the FIA as one of the necessary tests of Read more…
For me carnival has always been a long-awaited day, and the wait grew exponentially with the approaching date of the festivities. The reason why a person, especially as a kid, loves this day of celebration is soon said: it is a day of pure joy and fun where almost all Read more…
Coincidences started on my arrival at Canadian border while I was on tour to show our ‘Travellers’ Guide to Italy’ at the Ciociaro Club in Windsor. I arrived in Detroit, caught a cab to downtown Detroit and I had to catch a bus going South. Yes, Canada is South of Read more…
13 July: Seminar on Experiential Tourism and Travellers organized by the Commissioner of the Municipality of Fiuggi during which the presentation was made of the prototype of the Fiuggi Tourist Guide.
It seems to have been one of the favorite dishes of Pope Boniface VIII and was therefore named in his honour. It is a pastry of pasta made with thin noodles plus a ragout of veal meat with the addition of pork sausages. The ragu is cooked in the traditional Read more…
When Fiuggi’s commercial exploitation started, so did the story of Fiuggi Fonte, the development of an area around a spring inside a chestnut forest. Until then the centre of social life was the ancient village of Anticoli, former name of the current town of Fiuggi, and in the old town Read more…
The reserve Lake Canterno includes one of the most extensive karst basins in Lazio: it is in an area surrounded by the territories of Ferentino, Fiuggi, Fumone and Trivigliano. The lake has a perimeter of 5 km and a depth varying between 15 and 25 meters and lies in a Read more…
