This town is located in the Viterbo Maremma area bordering Tuscany. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Lucien Bonaparte stayed here and Pope Pius VII granted him the title of Prince of Canino. Napoleon's brother can be attributed with the drive to conduct archaeological re­search, particularly near the ancient city of Vulci. The collegiate church of Santi Apostoli Giovanni e Andrea, dating to the late eighteenth century, is the site of the Bonaparte Chapel containing the fu­nerary monuments of Charles Bonaparte (father of Napoleon and Lucien), Chris­tine Boyer (Lucien's first wife), Joseph Bonaparte (Lucien's san who died at the age of 14 months) and Lucien Bonaparte himself, portrayed near his wife on his deathbed. These works, done in Seravezza marble, are the work of Laboureur and Pampaloni.

In this church, we can also admire a fif­teenth-century painting by Mariotto Albertinelli, several canvases dating to the seventeenth-eighteenth century (Domenico Corvi, Sebastiano Conca, Monaldo Monaldi, Marcello Leopardi), two tondi by an anonymous Flemish artist, a lovely portrait of Pius VII done by the French school, a Nativity done by the Perugino school, a thirteenth-century wooden crucifix and the relics of St. Clement.

The former convent of San Francesco, the lower part of the town along the road to Valentano, is remembered for legendarily having hosted St. Francis of Assisi