Priverno today is on a hill, overlooking the narrow valley of the river Amaseno, in the province of Latina, halfway between Frosinone and the sea.

Until 1928 it was called Piperno, keeping the name of the medieval city built from scratch towards the beginning of the thirteenth century and that still today lives, with its spaces, its architecture and its art, within the current city center.

Before the thirteenth century the city was on the plain, in Mezzagosto, in the heart of the fertile Valle dell'Amaseno, where the colony of Privernum was born, a thriving Roman city that was in turn preceded, in history, by another Privernum, much older and of Volscan origin.

Roman privernum, gradually reshaped and remodeled and with the name that progressively changed into Piperno, it remained alive in the plain site until the Middle Ages. It was abandoned at the end of the twelfth century when the inhabitants moved to the new hill Piperno.

Priverno, City of Art boasts a rich cultural heritage that, starting from its historic center and within a radius of only 8 km, includes important archaeological realities, monumental, artistic and landscape even more valued for the richness of artistic and cultural events that take place during the year.
The Archaeological Park of Privernum with the impressive ruins of the Roman and early medieval city, the Cistercian abbey complex of Fossanova with the impressive Medieval Museum and the Monumental Park of San Martino with the Renaissance Palazzo Gallio, (Historical residence ) are a corollary to the precious historic city center in which the urban and monumental fabric of medieval Priverno survives, now enriched by the presence of an important Museum for Mathematics and an Archaeological Museum, dedicated to Privernum, that accompanies the visitor to discover the most ancient phases of life of the territory, from the protohistoric age to the birth and life of the Roman colony, founded in the late second century B.C.

The happy position of the cultural basin of Priverno, in an area that has always been a hinge between the mountains and the sea, positioned on paths that naturally open this hinterland towards the Latina valley and the coastal area Pontina, It is an obligatory passage for the transversal connections between the major arteries of southern Lazio, the A1 motorway and the coastal road network between Rome and Naples. This road, strengthened by the railway line Rome-Naples with a stop at Priverno-Fossanova, is crossed by tourist, hiking, cycling and religious routes that certainly benefit from the presence of a cultural attractor the reach of the abbey of Fossanova, inserted in fact in international tour.

The borough of Fossanova
Five km from the historic center of Priverno, along the river Amaseno, stands the charming borough of Fossanova, all enclosed in the architectural setting of one of the most grandiose Cistercian monastic complexes in Italy, built between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The abbey complex of Fossanova, with its church solemnly consecrated by Innocent III June 18, 1208, is the result of a centuries-old settlement process started in Roman times and has not known solution of continuity, and close to the main and oldest road routes of the Lepini Mountains that still connect the privernate hinterland with the coastal plain and the pleasant seaside towns of Sabaudia, S. Felice Circeo and Terracina. In the area occupied by the abbey was originally built a Roman villa, to which is superimposed the Benedictine monastery of Santo Stefano de Fossanova, then assigned, around the fourth decade of the twelfth century and by the will of Pope Innocent II, to the Cistercians of San Bernardo. Fossanova therefore embraces, in a happy and rare union, the entire historical story of the region from antiquity to today, gathered in an evocative natural environment that enhances the elegant architectural proportions of the abbey church and the imposing Cistercian factories that surround it and that now relive inside the small village of the same name. The main nucleus consists of the Church with the Cloister on which rotate the Chapter Room, the Refectory, the Infirmary of the Monks and the house of the Abbot where St. Thomas Aquinas died in 1274. Just outside stand the Infirmary of the Conversi (today room for cultural activities), the Guest House of the Pilgrims (home to the Medieval Museum) and the remains of what was the Hospice of the Pilgrims.

Included in the national and international tourist routes, along with the nearby Ninfa, Valvisciolo, Sermoneta and Casamari, the village of Fossanova has been the subject of a careful program of enhancement in recent years that has led to a restyling of the site along with a development of its cultural potential marked mainly by the setting up of the Medieval Museum and the realization of important events and events.

The Archaeological Park of Privernum is in the locality of Mezzagosto, in a plain site in the heart of the Amaseno valley, on the S.R. 156 of the Lepini Mountains that connects Latina to Frosinone. On an area of over 4 ha, the Park reconstructs impressive views of the urban landscape of Roman Privernum, a city founded in the late second century B.C. and remained alive in this place of plain until the twelfth century, when, with the name Piperno, was transferred to the hill that still houses Priverno.
The ancient remains of the city are musealized within tours that trace its building history: from the city walls to the sumptuous patrician domus with rich mosaic floors, from the square with arcades, shops and theater to the imperial baths up to the imposing church-cathedral of the early Middle Ages (VI-IX century).

The Archaeological Park, thanks to its large spaces, the charm of its ruins and the beauty of its environmental context is a privileged place for events and events.