This urban park, one of the smallest of the Lazio, extends above the ancient city of Sutri in an area of 7 hectares and is designed to enhance the archeological findings, landscape and nature of that time.
The park includes a large 'tuff island' on top of which there is Villa Savorelli.
At the lower part, near the city centre, is one of the most important archaeological sites of Tuscia with the amphitheatre, Necropolis and several churches.
The Church of the Madonna del Parto is completely dug out of tufa on an area reserved for the worship of the god Mithras of the first century that still has a baptismal area. The Mithreum was transformed into a church in the fourth century.
The church has three naves, a barrel-vaulted ceiling and an apse and is mostly covered by frescoes.
The Santa Fortunata Church was built around 1000 AD near a ‘miraculous’ spring. Women who give birth had made pilgrimages to drink the water that was believed favoured breastfeeding.
The park headquarters is located in the small church of San Giovanni of the fifteenth century that inside has frescoes from different eras.
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