Città dell'Olio

Città dell'Olio in Lazio

8 towns

Lazio has 8 Città dell'Olio communes in our index. They cluster in the Frosinone, Latina, and Rieti provinces.

The three most recognised in our catalogue are Minturno, Terracina, and Castro dei Volsci. 5 more towns carry the mark alongside them.

Minturno
Province: Latina · 140 m
A coastal comune at the mouth of the Garigliano, built on the Roman colony of Minturnae.
Terracina
Province: Latina · 24 m
The Volscian Anxur, where a temple to Jupiter sits above a port cut through stone.
Castro dei Volsci
Province: Frosinone · 385 m
A Ciociaria hilltop borgo at 385 meters in the Sacco valley, named for the pre-Roman Volsci.
Velletri
Province: Roma · 332 m
The Castelli Romani town where Augustus grew up, now the largest wine commune of its hills.
Boville Ernica
Province: Frosinone · 450 m
A Ciociaria hilltop town with eighteen intact medieval towers, ringed by a walled circuit that has stood since the tenth century.
Casperia
Province: Rieti · 397 m
A Sabina hill village named Aspra in Virgil's Aeneid, called that until 1947, ringed by walls from 1282.
Isola del Liri
Province: Frosinone · 217 m
The Ciociaria town with a 27-meter waterfall in its centro storico and a paper-mill past once called the Manchester of Italy.
Capodimonte
Province: Viterbo · 364 m
The lakefront Farnese stronghold on a peninsula jutting into Europe's largest volcanic crater lake, with an extra-virgin olive oil tradition recognized by Città dell'Olio.

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