For two medieval centuries the Counts of Ceccano were the most powerful family in the papal Campagna, and their castle — still crowning the town — produced one of the most valuable sources of medieval Lazio: the Annales Ceccanenses, a chronicle written here between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The town of 23,098 on the Sacco river also inherits a deeper past, standing where Roman Fabrateria Vetus once controlled the Latin Valley. The counts' castle, open again to visitors, offers the best single viewpoint over the whole Frosinone valley.
Near Ceccano
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
