Bomarzo is located on the left bank of the Tiber river, overlooked by the Cimini mounts volcanic group from which has been originated the peperino rocky spur on which it place itself. Panoramic placed at 828 feets on the sea level Bomarzo has a wedge shape, tipic during the middle age in Lazio. Bomarzo overlooks in turn the Tiber valley and the A1 highway (the sun highway) from which is about 4 miles far, just at Attigliano you can take the highway and reach Rome in about 40 min. The name Bomarzo derivates from the ancient “Polymartium” or in other words the Mars City (Martium = Mars & Poly = City by the Roman’s language), maybe because in these lands the worship of this divinity was very strong.

Regarding the Bomarzo History:
The most important architectural turn was done during the ‘500’ by the Orsini Family. The famous leader Giovanni Corrado Orsini received Bomarzo and Chia by the sharing of the goods with his uncle by father Ulisse Orsini. Giovanni Corrado starts a new era in the urbanization of Bomarzo and buy the lower little valley where his son Pierfrancesco will place the “Sacred forest”, actual named “ The monsters park”. The Monsters park is an unique work, it was done by Vicino Orsini, keen erudite, poet and learned man, clever leader, passionate of exoteric science, from which mind born this idea of the “wondering villa”. Huge and anxiously stone pictures, at that time colored, are placed between the forest. The meaning and the author of these anxiously and strange sculptures living in the sacred forest are actually unknown. The practical realization should be attributed to the Architect Pirro Logorio from Napoli. From Bomarzo, located few minutes far from the A1 highway & the Orte – Viterbo super-road. it is possible to reach easily Viterbo, the Vico lake, Soriano nel Cimino just on the top of Cimino mount (3252 feets on the sea level) where it is possible to visit the biggest beech-trees forest of Europe. Romans used this forest to build the famous Empire navies. Going north it is possible to reach Montefiascone where the famous Est Est Est vined was born, the Bolsena lake, Orvieto, Ercole & S.Stefano harbours on the Tirreno sea. On the other bound going to Terni in few minutes we are in Umbria and taking the E45 road it is possible to cross it all until S.Marino, Fano, the Adriatic sea. Going down to Attigliano and taking the A1 highway we can go to Rome in about 40-50 minutes.