Visit Lazio - Tourism and travel tips for your vacation or weekend.

The Provincia di Latina (Province of Latina) may be the smallest province in Lazio, but what it lacks in size it more than makes up for in beauty, entertainment, and activities for the entire family to enjoy.

Visit the stunning 105 hectare park, the Giardino di Ninfa, for a truly spectacular way to enjoy nature. Find your peace here, as you explore the gardens and parkland in this natural monument.

For a more wild place to explore there is nowhere better than Palmarola, an uninhabited island a short boat ride away. Here you will find grottos, caves, and cliffs.

Finally, if it is history you love, the Villa of Tiberius is the perfect place for you to visit. This museum is dedicated to Odysseus and his travels and trials, and will leave you wanting to know more.

Tourists are welcome at any time of the year, but visiting from June to August will give you the best of the area's weather.

Lazio is an administrative city in Italy, which is located in the central part of the country.
The coast of the city is made up of sandy beaches, where tourists enjoy while they rest during their holidays in Lazio. These beaches include, the Tyrrhenian, Terracina, Sperlonga, Fregene, Santa Marinella and Isole Pontine.

The Marina di Montalto, which is close to Montalto di Castro town, is one of the modern beaches along the Maremma Laziale region. The beach has hotels, several beach chairs meant for renting out to guests and campgrounds.
On the Southward area of Montalto di Castro there is the Tarquinia beach which has an archeological site for those visiting the beach.

Rome’s local beach in Lazio can be easily be accessed by travelling by train through the Piramide and Ostia Antica and then stopping at Ostia Lido. Also, the beach is closer to Fiumicino Airport making it easy to travel by air to the place. The local beach has many restaurants and during the summer it has a vibrant nightlife view.
Fregene beach is also a major beach favorite for visitors to Lazio and has hotels where you can eat tasty seafood as well as riding bikes.

Civitavecchia is a port in Rome where you can easily be ferried to Sardinia or rent a boat and within it there are sandy beaches.
Santa Marinella is a seaside resort which is suitable when going for holiday with your family.
Anzio beach offers a great opportunity for visitors to play or watch baseball and also catch some rays especially during the summer.

When you are purposing to stay in Lazio for some time, you can visit the Latina Province coastline where Riviera of Ulysses beach is situated. The beach has white sand, romantic grottoes and dramatic cliffs along the San Felice and Teraccina areas.
San Felice Circeo is an ideal place for guests to windsurf and kayaking whereas Parco Nazionale is a favorite joint for the birdwatchers.
The Isole Pontine which is a cluster of islands along the Lazio coastline are well known for having beautiful sceneries, natural reserves and wildlife. These features make the beaches a great place for guests to enjoy and relax away comfortably without distractions due to overcrowding like other beaches.

When you would like to sunbathe as well as sightsee, the Gaeta beach is a suitable and most ideal beach to visit. You can travel to the beach by using a bus and alight at Via Marina, where you can have a clear view of the sea and the <

If there's one region of Italy that represents what much of the rest of the world considers Italian food it's Lazio.

Many of the most famous pasta dishes such as amatriciana and carbonara are claimed by Lazio residents as their own. Lazio is the region of the capital city, Rome, and much of the area is given over to agriculture to support the hungry metropolis. The rich volcanic soils provide vegetables of extremely high quality, from artichokes and beans to broccoli.

The province of Ciociaria to the south east is renowned for its high quality produce, which visitors to Rome can explore and sample in the daily market at Campo dei Fiori. Also within Rome, the Trastevere district is a must-visit for anyone who wants to experience true Roman and Lazio cuisine, with many restaurants specialising in the cucina povera style of turning simple ingredients into exceptional meals.

Expect to find Roman classics including saltimbocca and various takes on fritto misto, with offal and other unfashionable cuts of meat featuring heavily, often flavoured with assertive herbs such as mint and sage. Lazio wines are mainly white, grown in the Castelli Romani hills to the south and east. Frascati is the best known type, but Orvieto and Marino can also be enjoyed, along with rarer reds such as Cerveteri Rosso made from sangiovese grapes. One winery worth a visit is Principe Pallavicini near Castelli Romani, whose cellars contain remnants of a Roman aqueduct which visitors are welcome to explore on their way to a tasting of both the excellent wines and olive oils.

Situated on the western side of Italy about half way down, the lakes of the Lazio area, as it is known, are ringed with picturesque Medieval villages, and are a restful place to stay as an add on to a trip to Rome.

Try a visit to the imposing 15th century, Castello Orsini-Odescalchi, which is near the village of Bracciano itself, to really sum up the atmosphere of old Italy. Or travel to Norchia which is famous for some interesting, 2,500 year old Etruscan cliff tombs, set in a pretty valley well worth the walk to see.

If you are really into nature, take a look at the nature reserve around the smaller lake Vico, which is a place edges with the wonderful volcanic cinder cone of mount Venere, and is a great place for scenery and wild life. The largest of the volcanic lakes is Bolsena, which has a pretty old town which is just full of atmosphere and wonderful picture opportunities. To go with all the wonderful countryside and villages, try some great Italian food, as local goats cheese.