Castel Gandolfo and the Albani Hills

"...confirms the conclusion at which modern science, paleo-ethnology as well as history, had already arrived, namely, that Rome was founded by a colony of shepherds from the Alban Hills, on grounds which had never been occupied permanently before. Many among my readers recollect with delight the drive taken from Frascati to Castel Gandolfo and Albano, following the rim of the volcanic crater, which age has transformed into a lake, the LAgo di Castello, one of the liveliest sheets of water in the world..."

Ancient Rome
in the light of recent excavations

Author: Rodolfo Lanciani
Editor:Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York
Published: 1890


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