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Lazio's second-highest village has attracted artists for 400 years and is now an open-air art gallery.
Named after the deer that used to live in this region, Cervara di Roma is a small village located in the province of Rome dramatically perched on a cliff in the Monti Simbruini Regional Park. It is the second-highest village in the Italian region of Lazio, and today it functions as an open-air gallery. This medieval village overlooking the Aniene Valley numbers just over 400 inhabitants, but for centuries has attracted some of the greatest artists in Europe. Many painters have celebrated the village and its surroundings through the years. The French artist Ernest Hébert is among the most famous. He lived in Cervara during the 19th century and produced a number of paintings depicting the women of the village, such as “Les Cervaroles,” which is exhibited at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
