Yet imprecise in its geographical borders, Ciociaria has a culinary identity. The food is simple but tastes delicious. There are no fancy recipes. Ingredients stand on their own. It’s all about the earth here. They make the most of the ingredients themselves. Everything tastes so delicious because of the soil the crops grow in here and because of what they feed their animals.                 BREADS Here the bread is fascinating. Its preparation is still connected to popular traditions: the bread is baked in a wood stove and is made with just four ingredients: yeast, water, salt and flour. The fermentation of the yeast…

Need to get away from it all? Grab a camera, go into the wild and discover acres of untouched backcountry! You will be treated to all kinds of amazing scenery, to hills alternating with ranges of mountains, to wide blue skies, to wild lakes, springs and waterfalls, to scenic valleys, to caves and underground cavities with spectacular stalactites, stalagmites and subterranean lakes, to scattered small hilltop villages.

“La Preta Nera” is a charming traditional house in the heart of the historic center of Giuliano di Roma, in Ciociaria. The original middle age village was built on top of the crater of an extinct volcano and the guest house is named by the basaltic stone coming from the lava littered in the area. As most of the houses in the village, La Preta Nera was built using black basaltic stones still visible. Just 90 km south of Rome and 30 from the beach, in an area of rolling hills and valleys, “La Preta Nera” is a place that will allow you to spend your holidays in a natural…