Caprarola



         


Caprarola is a small village of grey stone houses approximately 35 miles from Rome. The village is situated a dramatic landscape, in a range of volcanic hills known as The Cimini.

The village's chief claim to fame is the large renaissance mansion or villa which dominates the surrounding country-side the Villa Farnese built by a Cardinal from the Farnese Family in the mid 16th. century.





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