“Once upon a time”, there was a small village in the beautiful Tuscia area, one hour and a half north of Rome and only 30 minutes far from the quaint Civita di Bagnoregio!

This small village had only 100 souls who felt very lonely and sad to live in a small place which nobody would ever visit.

Therefore, in 2016, one of its inhabitants had a great idea: painting all the houses with scenes from the most famous and beloved fairy tales in the world❤ so that people would visit them and be happy to walk along the lanes of this tiny world of the fairy tales.

The atmosphere is truly magical!

No matter your age! You’ll feel as if you were a child and your heart will step back in time 💙 while your kids will have fun while they try to guess the fairy tale’s name!

Each alleyway discloses a scene from an old tale and strikes the visitor with its lively colours and dreamlike reality.

Along the way to the Sacred Grove of Bomarzo, you’ll stop for lunch in a traditional and panoramic trattoria where you’ll have the opportunity to taste the regional italian cuisine.

The Sacro Bosco (“Sacred Grove”) of the Monsters is a monumental complex named after the many larger-than-life sculptures, some of them sculpted in the bedrock.

They seem to live silently in this huge and wild Garden and populate this predominantly barren landscape.

Nature and human artfacts, that is to say the wood and the mithological-allegorical figures carved from the rock, the rational world and a world of symbols merge together in this impressive, beautiful, dreamlike park! 💙

It is the work by the Duke Pier Francesco Orsini, called Vicino (1528–1588), a patron of the arts and mercenary who ruled over Bomarzo. The Park covers an area of ​​about 3 hectares, in a forest of conifers and deciduous trees.😍

This Park is very different from the other contemporary italian Renaissance gardens as the park of Bomarzo was intended not to please, but to astonish!!👁