The first weekend of the month of September in Grotte di Castro is the celebration of Madonna Santissima del Suffragio with solemn religious events. The streets of the village are then animated by popular games and live music. The event closes with the traditional fireworks show.
Viticulture in the Lake Bolsena area developed since the Etruscan period thanks to the microclimate of the lake. The cultivation of the vine had a major expansion with the Romans and continued uninterrupted so that in 1627 Tassoni in De pensieri diversi’ mentions it among the tasty wines. The Aleatico Read more…
Every year, on September 8, the feast of Our Lady of Suffrage is celebrated and every 10 years this occurs with a special festival and procession called ‘descent’. The story began in 1616 when the Capuchin friar Father Angelo from Ronciglione came preaching in Grotte setting up arrival from Rome Read more…
In August is the festival dedicated to one of the best products of the countryside of Grotte di Castro: the potato. During the festival you can taste dumplings, croquettes and pizzas made with local potatoes.
On Good Friday, the streets of the village come alive with a dramatization of the Passion and death of Jesus in which some 500 local young people appear in period costume.
Although the village is not on the lake, its territory includes 800 meters of beach with park area equipped to accommodate tourists and visitors in search of a clean and unpolluted natural environment.
The necropolis was in operation between the late eighth and early seventh century BC and its feature was a section of individual burials in the grave. The graves were inserted into a circle of tufa blocks in dry places. The grave was dug in the ground with a NE-SW orientation Read more…
It is one of the necropolis of the Etruscan centre of Tyro that is found on the tufo heights known as “La Civita”: of this centre remain tunnels, cisterns and stretches of the defensive wall in large blocks of tufa. The necropolis was in use between the sixth and fifth Read more…
The museum is located in the basement of the Basilica of Our Lady of Suffrage and displays vestments, reliquaries, votive paintings and sculptures. A section shows many fine gilded wooden objects that furnished the altars before Vatican II.
The museum is located in the Palazzo del Podesta and contains important Etruscan and Medieval sections. The former collects some funerary equipment of the necropolis of Vigna la Piazza and Pianezze, running between the eighth and fourth centuries BC. In the medieval section is re-created the more recent history of Read more…
