Morlupo

Morlupo

Morlupo is perched on a horseshoe-shaped tufa rock spur, surrounded by steep plunging crags, with higgledy-piggledy rows of houses, overlooking the Tiber Valley. It is about 30 km from Rome. In Roman times the Ad Vigesimum Station, one of the mansiones [stopping...
Colle di Tora

Colle di Tora

Colle di Tora, a village of Roman origins, was called until the late nineteenth century Collepiccolo and stretched across a hill on the banks of the Tora River. The hydroelectric reservoir, created in the 1930s, gave rise to the Turano and Salto Lakes. Thus, Colle di...
Collevecchio

Collevecchio

The ancient Collevecchio (Colavetus), founded in the 13th century, offers a unique sight in the whole Rieti area for the beauty of the noble dwellings that still enrich the historic centre. The privilege of being the seat of the Papal Governor of Sabina for two...
Soriano nel Cimino

Soriano nel Cimino

Soriano nel Cimino is a small village in the Tuscia Viterbo area characterized by two different forms of urban settlement: medieval around the Orsini Castle and Renaissance. The village seems to have been inhabited since the Palaeolithic. At the time of the Etruscans,...
Frascati

Frascati

Built on the ruins of a Roman villa, Frascati probably owes its name to the branches used to build of the houses. After the destruction of Tusculum in 1191, many residents took refuge in the village below and founded a new town, which, between 1200 and 1300, underwent...