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Yes, Frascati is a town as well as a drink, though many visitors will be most familiar with the famed white wine. There are numerous producers in and around the town, and plenty of wine tours and tastings to be enjoyed. Cantine within the town sell wine by the litre from giant vats. Check out the tourist office on Piazza Marconi for more on those. This closest to Rome of the Castelli Romani towns is something of a foodie's paradise in fact, being blessed with a number of fine trattorie and restaurants, and sandwich stands on the Piazza del Mercato (market square). These are sandwiches Italian style, mind you. A slab of porchetta (whole roast pig) between two slices of bread, rather than your regular BLT. Just out of town you have the scant remains of Roman Tusculum, a weekend retreat for wealthy Romans. There is rather more to see with the Ville Ponticie, built from the 1500s onward by various popes, cardinals and Roman toffs as their country houses, and among them the Villas Aldobrandini, Parisi, Muti and Sora. Frascati has the (Cathedral Basilica of St Peter Apostle, the Church of the Gesu and the Bishop's Palace (or Rocca). There is too a brace of fine museums in the Scuderie Aldobrandini (with scale models of some of the villas) and the Ethiopian Museum by Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia, a Capuchin missionary buried here; there is a church here dedicated to St Francis of Assisi.
To the left you'll find a selection of hotels, to get you in the mood
- see also our full listings of Frascati hotels.
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