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SLEEPING
TUSCIA HOTEL€
( 0761 34 44 00;
www.tusciahotel.com
;
Via Cairoli 41; s €40-64, d €62-82; )
The best of the city's
midrange options, this central, spick-and-span three-star place is leagues ahead of the com-
petition in cleanliness and comfort. The rooms here are large, light and kitted out with
satellite TV; nine rooms have air-con. There's a sunny roof terrace.
HOTEL
AGRITURISMO ANTICA SOSTA€
( 0761 25 13 69;
www.agriturismoanticasosta.it
; SS Cassia Nord; s/d €40/65, restaurant meals €35; )
This
mansion, set in pea-green countryside, is five kilometres from Viterbo on SS Cassia Nord,
with spacious, simple rooms and a delicious restaurant, serving scrumptious dishes such as
strozzapreti con salsiccia, porcini e pancetta
('priest-strangler' pasta with sausage, porcini
mushrooms and cured ham).
AGRITURISMO
LAGO BRACCIANO & AROUND
Lovely Bracciano lies 32km northwest of Rome, and is the second largest of the volcanic lakes in the region. It's a
beautiful blue expanse of 57.5 sq km, with picturesque towns dotted around its edge. At
Bracciano
itself, you can
visit the 15th-century
Castello Odescalchi
( 06 9980 2379;
www.odescalchi.it
; Via Gregorio VII 368; €7.50/5;
10am-noon & 3-6pm daily summer, shorter hours in winter) , with its small museum. A particularly good base
is
Anguillara Sabazia
, a charming small medieval town. It's possible to swim in the lake from the small gravelly
beach in the town. If you'd like to stay,
Domus Anguillara
( 06 996 83 96;
www.domusangularia.com
; Piazza
del Comune 7; d €60-75) is a charming small B&B with three rooms, lovely owners and stunning lake views. If
you have your own transport, the restaurant
Iotto
( 06 904 17 46; Corso Vittorio Emanuele 96; meals around
€35) , in nearby Campagnano di Roma, is a fabulous place to eat, with particularly good fried dishes. Anguillara
(55 minutes) and Bracciano (one hour) are accessible via train from Roma Ostiense (€2.60, half-hourly).
Orvieto
Explore
Crowning a steep hill, beautiful medieval Orvieto is dominated by its awe-inspiring
humbug-striped
duomo
(cathedral). Unsurprisingly, it's a tourist honeypot and gets
