The town lies at the centre of the Cimini mountains, on the
eastern slopes of the Vico-lake crater zone. The historic centre is grouped
around the fortress that was reconstructed at the time of Giulia
Farnese, who received it as a gift from her lover Alexander IV at the end of
the fifteenth century.
Only a few rooms are left inside: the Stanza dei
Cacciatori (so called because of the hunting scenes frescoed on the
ceiling) and the Camera di Giulia, named to commemorate her stay there
in 1522. The church of Santa Maria is decorated with late
fifteenth-century frescoes by the Zuccari school. The church of Madonna
della Valle presents sixteenth-century frescoes by Antonio del Massaro. In
the church of San Filippo Neri, the stoup for holy water and paintings
depicting Our Lady of Grace, St. Anthony and St. Catherine stand out.
The church of Sant'Eutizio is not far from town and
has fifteenth-century decorations by Balletta portraying the Crucifix, the
Apostles Peter and Paul, the Saviour, Madonna with Child and St.
Eutizio.
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