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Extract from the Subiaco Travel Guides:
Around 15km northeast of Palestrina,
SUBIACO
(accessible by bus from Tivoli or direct from Rome), is beautifully set, pyramided around a hill topped by the Rocca Abbazia castle, close to Monte Liviato - one of Lazio's premier ski resorts. Founded as a purpose-built settlement to accommodate workmen building Nero's grand villa nearby (very meagre traces of which survive), during the fifth century Subiaco became the chosen contemplative base of St Benedict, who lived a life of seclusion and prayer in a cave on the slopes of a nearby mountain. St Benedict left after three years to found the monastery at Montecassino
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