Bolsena

An important Etruscan town on the banks of the largest volcanic lake in Italy, on whose shores were found the remains of a settlement from the beginning of the middle bronze age (XVI-XV centuries BC)

Bolsena was, over the centuries, Etruscan, Roman, Langobard, Papal, Orvietan and then Papal again from 1471. Of all this there is innumerable evidence, beginning with the many archaeological areas. The Monaldeschi castle dominates the town; it was built between 1200 and 1300 and now hosts the Lake Bolsena area museum. It was in Bolsena that theretook place one of the most venerated miracles in the Christian world: the miracle of Corpus Domini, later painted by Raffaello. The miracle took place in Santa Cristina Church, built in 1077 on a network of catacombs, partly still unexplored.