Monte Comprati

Friday hike - San Silvestro to Tuscolo

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October 7th 2005
As you can see for yourself the weather didn't seem ideal for our usual Friday walk and we still meet to go walking. Tradition and lots of fun on Friday catching up with each other. This week we decided to walk from San Silvestro church just above Montecompatri to Tuscolo which is situated above Frascati. From the curch parking lot we head over the hill into grazing valley for local heards of ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more