Albano was an imperial barracks: here Septimius Severus quartered the Second Parthian Legion, and the Castra Albana surface everywhere — the Praetorian gate, the amphitheatre cut into volcanic stone, the baths, and the Cisternone, a five-aisled underground cistern still perfectly working after eighteen centuries. Few places in Lazio show military Rome this close.
The town, the Castelli's lively de facto capital, overlooks volcanic Lake Albano, the Romans' summer beach. The municipal villa's umbrella pines and the Baroque churches frame the evening stroll.
Near Albano Laziale
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
