Ischia di Castro

The landscape around Ischia di Castro is a succession of volcanic-tuff uplands between Lake Bolsena and the Fiora valley, which has shaped both the urban form and local economy. The town stands in northern Lazio, close to the Tuscan border, where cultivated fields and wooded ravines break up the plateau. Its compact historic centre retains the imprint of the Farnese, the family that ruled the Duchy of Castro in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the Renaissance Palazzo Ducale is a key civic monument. Ischia di Castro belonged to the wider territory once administered from nearby Castro, a town destroyed in 1649. Continue with other webcams from the area to see how this part of northern Lazio connects with the Lake Bolsena basin and the Tuscan borderlands.

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