A few hundred meters through the air and a few kilometers from the center of Aurelia Ladispoli border with WWF Oasis Park in Palo, the Odescalchi castle and the Relais & Chateau "La Posta Vecchia" stands out in a sea green, over a range of 120 acres, the Marina district of San Nicola.
Marina of St. Nicholas as its "workhorse" of the enormous wealth of greenery. To confirm this, the statistic that sees attested the top places in the ranking of Italian places with the highest ratio of green-cement.
In fact, entering the district consortium, at km, 34,500 of the highway, the first impression that you record is certainly a positive impact with the green, be it public or private: an infinity of trees, hedges and plants of all species tend to hide almost anywhere a myriad of houses, built and deployed with the criteria of intelligence and rationality on about 14 kilometers of roads that meander through the area. Fences Roman (and walls) as fencing and the absence of sidewalks complete the picture of what the environment does not seem excessive to define a "pearl" of the Tyrrhenian coast. An oasis for those who abandoned the chaos of the big city, you arrive tired and stressed out after a week of intense work for a peaceful and carefree weekend.
In the area there are two Etruscan necropolis of "Monteroni" (burial mounds, probably referring to the city of Alsium and dated between the seventh and fifth centuries BC, mostly since disappeared) and "Vaccina" (comprising about 60 tombs excavated the rock (VII-VI century BC, probably belonging to a settlement dependent Caere built at the mouth of the ditch Vaccina, or Caeretanus amnis).
Have now been rediscovered many Roman villas used by the second half of the third century BC until the fifth century A.D.