Marino in Lazio

20 June 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

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Marino is an Italian city and comune in Lazio (central Italy), on the Alban Hills, 21 kilometres (13 miles) southeast of Rome, with a population of 38,000. The territory of Marino was inhabited by Latin tribes from the 1st millennium BC. The Grape Festival (Italian: Sagra dell’uva) is held every 1st Sunday of October. This festival is very famous in the surrounding area because, for about one hour, some of the city’s fountains spill wine instead of water, recalling the memory of the old vintage and the historical event of the return to Marino of Marcantonio Colonna with 260 “Marinesi” from the Battle of Lepanto (7 October 1571).   read more…

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