[TOURS AROUND ROME]

the cassia (part one)

One of the oldest Roman streets, it was built by the Consul Cassio in the 3rd century BC to go north in the new territories conquered to the Etruscan. In the Middle Age this was the most used street by the pilgrims visiting Rome, and with some further additions it arrived up to Mont Saint Michel in North France, becoming the main “highway” of all the Medieval Europe with the new name “Via Francigena”(the streets of the Frankish).Here you will find remains of different centuries, to have a complete and interesting tour of the region, from the Etruscan age to the luxury of a Renaissance Villa. The tour starts in Sutri, once an Etruscan city, then Roman, and during the Middle Age one of the main “stations” of the Via Francigena before to get in Rome. Here remains of a necropolis carved in the rocks, an early Christian church and a small