Welcome to Sermoneta!

We had hoped to visit the Tres Tabarnae, but it was closed to the public. We pivoted and decided on a whim to go to a small hill town in the Lepini mountains called Sermoneta. Getting up there was an adventure - I was honking going around the hairpin turns even though the road was supposedly two ways.

There were hardly any tourists other than us, and it was so peaceful. It's still classically medieval and lots of locals out and about. Lots of twist turny little alleyways and I wanted to explore all of them. Plenty of stairs and steep streets, so we got our exercise!

Dad was enchanted, and I taught him to say "Molto Bene" to people since he kept saying "Very good" to everyone who didn't speak English.Read more