Italy, Anguillara Sabazia

Anguillara Sabazia sits on the shores of Lake Bracciano, its foundations dating back to the republican period of ancient Rome, the first or second century BC. Here a rich Roman patrician, Rutilia Polla, owned a villa on the shore, just below the Collegiate, and caught fish from the lake to supply the market of Rome. The villa is built on a corner and is called "Angularia" and from here derives the name Anguillara. The suffix Sabazia, the name of the zone, was added to distinguish it from a homonym town in Padua. The area was completely rebuilt in the sixteenth century and many houses retain medieval structure with large overlapping rooms connected by a central staircase.