The week long festivities for San Lorenzo, patron saint of Zagarolo, involve both religion and tradition. At night on the day of San Lorenzo, 10 August, there is the night of falling stars celebrating with glasses of wine, and beside these festivities is the religious festival. Zagarolo is a jewel Read more…
A special part of history took place inside the Rospigliosi Palace where the ghost of Zagarolo is condemned to follow the Francigena Way. The Francigena Way is the path that many pilgrims travelled in the Middle Ages from the north of Europe to Rome, to the tomb of St. Peter. Read more…
On an autumn afternoon, after the annual olive harvest, my daughter Maria and I went to Zagarolo, a town we had always known only by the train stop, where a group of wonderful people had organized a two-day “resilience” at Palazzo Rospigliosi. (I must admit that our decision to attend derived Read more…
