WATER GAMES AND GREENERIES

If you are in search of some new emotions, if you want to admire some architectural jewels, art or nature, come and discover the Roman Hills and their treasures. It’s a journey in a fascinating world, in the roman outskirts, which will give you the chance, at the same time, to discover unique treasures of history, a pervading nature, and to appreciate wines, food and tastes with a tradition of three thousand years at your back. The event Water Games and Greeneries, which will take place at the end of May, represents the best period to savour at most the beauty of this territory, to live and deeply enjoy all its flashing gorgeousness. During the event you will be able to visit the fashionable Villas and Palaces where popes, cardinals and princes used to spend their holidays, organizing parties, weaving plots, ruling the world. You will be able to live again the baroque atmosphere of the secret gardens, you will admire frescoed halls, discover refined furnishing, testimony of an unrepeatable world. The visit to these architectural treasures is intermitted with strolls around the gardens, discovering the water games, grottos, plants and rare trees, once delight of the noble residents of these mansions. During this period of time several events take place inside the villas and palaces, where you will be able to plunge into the magic atmosphere of the sweet Roman Hills sunsets, you will attend shows having the masterpieces of the Renaissance and Baroque architecture as protagonist, the wonderful and unique Tusculan Villas and noble palaces which, as precious stones placed among a lavish nature, help to embellish and decorate it. The Villas and the Palaces, but also the historical centres, so typical and hospitable become a scenographic stage which gives way to unforgettable moments and artistic expressions of a great value. The weekends of may dedicated to Water Games and Greeneries give many chances for a detailed discovery of all the elements composing the territory: nature, culture, oenological gastronomy. The visit to the Villas and Palaces is accompanied by the discovery of the surrounding areas which are never deprived of emotions, in fact you must not miss the ancient villages, where you let yourself be raptured by charming alleys, churches and bell towers, views and landscapes of the surrounding nature, which encircles and gives life to these towns. And how not being subjugated by the excellent tastes of the products of the traditional local cuisine: several inviting restaurants will be able to get all your desires fulfilled and are waiting for you with the smell of fragrant bread and biscuits just baked, the delightful and tempting colours of the typical cold cuts, the delicate and spiky taste of cheese, or still the just made egg noodles along with wood products, game and much more. This triumph of sensations and tastes is escorted by the excellent wines of the area which the wisdom of the local restaurateurs will let you recognize and appreciate. It will be the senses the ones which will guide you to the discovery of these places whose you’ll be for ever in love with. Oh yes, because discovering the Roman Hills means to deeply enjoy these places with their jewels and tastes, to walk plunged in the green, presenting one selves with a visit to the Tusculum archaeological site where Cicero used to spend the summer escaping from the roman heat, Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini would go hunting with his renowned couple of falcons. The schedule associated to the nights of the events will enable the fortunate guests to attend: jazz and blues concerts in the gardens and alleys of the Villas, the romantic ambience created by chamber or classical music ensembles inside the halls and frescoed rooms of the palaces and villas, theatre plays of different kinds visiting and reviewing the history of those places and passing it on in a playful way. Water Games and Greeneries is first of all an atmosphere, with its disguised characters, street artists revelling during the waiting periods and the walks, and take the visitor along in his discovery of the history and local tradition. It’s a journey through history, art, architecture, natural world, but it is also the absolute acquaintance with a territory through its colours, scents, sounds. It’s an opportunity to live for some days as the noble Romans used to live for generations in these refined ambiences. It’s an occasion not to be missed.

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16 - 24th may  2009 Info +39 06 94549045 www.collineromane.it