The best walks and hikes around Monte Romano

The current Palazzo del Comune of Tuscania overlooks Piazza Basile, between the Church of San Lorenzo and the former Church of Santa Croce, currently home to the Historical Archives and the Municipal Library. Previously, the administrators of the municipality resided in the ancient Palazzo del Rivellino, on the hill of the same name; the structure was so called because it was similar to a fortress. Subsequently, the podestà was transferred first to the palace that today is home to the Teatro Comunale, and then to the current one. The latter is accessed via a beautiful external staircase, which features a bronze plaque in memory of the restoration, in 1912, of the ancient name of the city that had been changed by Boniface VIII to Toscanella. (c) https://www.italiavirtualtour.it/dettaglio_member.php?id=96308

The church and the convent belonged to the Augustinian order. The buildings date back to the end of the 13th century and were completely rebuilt in the 18th century. Of the original church, only the single-nave plan remains, with no internal divisions and a rectilinear apse. The façade, which dates back to the 18th century, has a window on the outside. The interior is characterized by Baroque-style altars. In the apse, behind the 18th-century stucco altar, 15th-century frescoes were found. To the right of the entrance, a Renaissance stone arch gives access to the stone Chapel of San Giobbe, with beautiful reliefs. It is also known as the Ludovisi Chapel, named after the client who had it built in 1486. In the apse of the chapel, there is a fresco from the Viterbo school with a carved stone frame that was painted in 1492 and which represents the Ludovisi family in prayer at the sides of a Crucifixion. Next to the church is the building of the former convent of Sant'Agostino characterized by a beautiful cloister, numerous rooms and, on the upper floor, the monks' cells. It is located within the city walls right in the middle of the town. In 1818 it became the seat of the bishop's seminary, then during the Second World War it was used as accommodation for displaced people. Restored together with the church after the 1971 earthquake, it was finally abandoned around 1980. (c) https://www.cassiciaco.it/navigazione/monachesimo/chiese/italia/lazio/tuscania.html

Fontana Grande, also known as the Fontana di San Giacomo, is a stunning 17th-century fountain located in the heart of Tuscania's historic center. It stands prominently in Piazza Domenico Bastianini and was part of a renewal project led by Cardinal Cambara. The fountain's basin, carved from a single block of stone sourced from a nearby quarry, showcases impressive craftsmanship. (c) https://wanderlog.com/place/details/8697871/fontana-grande

Porta di Poggio is one of the entrance gates to the medieval citadel of Tuscania

Ancient fountain located in the heart of the historic center of Tuscania, famous for the seven masks that compose it from which the water flows. The coats of arms of some noble families of the time appear on the structure. In the small square that towards the end of the Middle Ages was the market square, there is the ancient source of the Seven Spouts, also known as the Fontana del Butinale, so called because the water comes out of the mouth of seven masks, the Fountain of the Seven Spouts is the oldest of the cities of Tuscania, of Etruscan-Roman age the fountain was completed in 1309 by the podestà Lorenzo da Guglielmo, to better serve the needs of the city. The source seems to have fed the Roman baths existing near the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. In more recent times it seems to have fed a mill near the small square. (c) https://fondoambiente.it/luoghi/fontana-delle-sette-cannelle?ldc

from Wiki: "According to what is reported in the Liber Pontificalis, the city was founded by Pope Leo IV on 15 August of the year 854 to give a safer seat to the citizens of Centumcellae (Civitavecchia) and the related diocese[1], being the city hit by the raids of the Saracens on the Tyrrhenian coast. According to his biographer, the pope gave the new city the name of Leopoli, but in all the documents, in the first centuries, the name of Centumcellae - civitas or castrum centumcellensis, later changed, is found in Centucelle - Cincelle - Cencelle. The new city was founded on a branch of the Via Aurelia, on an easily defensible hill between the Mignone river and its tributary Melledra, which had also been occupied in ancient times by the Etruscans. At the time of the foundation, the city walls were built, a first church, an episcopal seat, with an adjoining cemetery and wooden houses, later replaced by brick houses and buildings. The main church dedicated to Saint Peter was rebuilt larger between the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th century. The city was damaged by the earthquake of 1349 and the buildings were subsequently restored. It progressively declined and at the beginning of the 15th century the lands were, according to sources, "destroyed and uninhabited". In the second half of the fifteenth century the city area was used for the exploitation of the alum mines in the Tolfa mountains and in the seventeenth century it was probably the center of an agricultural company".

Beautiful square in the historic center of Tuscania.

Definitely worth a detour. You should take a few hours to a whole day because there is a lot to discover and visit.