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Anguillara Sabazia

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Anguillara Sabazia is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome , Lazio , central Italy , around 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Rome . It nestles on a small cape on the coast of Lake Bracciano ; its medieval center and its beach make it a popular destination for tourists.

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5-470: About 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of the town lies the small, volcanic Lake Martignano , also popular with tourists. The two lakes and the surrounding area have been declared a Regional Park and are under a strict naturalistic control. Nearby at Mura di Santo Stefano about 3 km south of Lake Bracciano lie the remarkable remains of a great ancient Roman villa. It was located along the Via Clodia and

10-410: The outside framed by pillars of yellow and red bricks. Inside the building has a central courtyard with pillars and three floors with cross vaults which have now disappeared. It was lavishly decorated with 19 types of marble. The covered side corridors retain traces of marble cladding on the walls. A cistern is also preserved nearby. The Everybody Loves Raymond fifth season two-part episode "Italy"

15-417: Was built at the end of the 2nd century AD, probably on an earlier villa rustica of the 1st century. The complex was a luxury retreat, possibly the residential part of a latifundium . There is evidence for continuing activity till the 3d or early 4th century. The remains of the three-story building in cement with brick cladding are still preserved to about 18 m in height. There are arched openings towards

20-591: Was filmed in Anguillara Sabazia. [REDACTED] Media related to Anguillara Sabazia at Wikimedia Commons Lake Martignano Lake Martignano (Italian: Lago di Martignano ) is a small lake in Lazio , Italy 24 kilometres (15 mi) north-north-west of Rome , in an extinct crater or maar . Administratively its coast is divided amongst the municipalities of Rome , Anguillara Sabazia and Campagnano di Roma . In ancient times Lake Martignano

25-513: Was part of southern Etruria and called Alsietinus Lacus . Augustus drew from it the Aqua Alsietina ; the water was hardly fit to drink, and was mainly intended to supply his naumachia (lake made for a sham naval battle) at Rome, near San Francesco a Ripa , on the right bank of the Tiber , where some traces of the aqueduct were perhaps found in 1720. The course of the aqueduct , which

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