Ceri

Ceri is a village in the municipality of Cerveteri, was founded in 1236 on a previous small village dating back to the seventh century.

The village was the domain of the Normans, and become the property of some of the great Roman families: from Anguillara to Cesi, the Borromeo, the Odescalchi and finally to the Torlonia, which largely still are owners.

In the main square of the village is the church of Our Lady of the Candles, the place where once there was the worship of the goddess Vesta and where they came from in the light of the frescoes of the Roman School dating from the twelfth century, depicting scenes from the Old Testament.