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Rieti (23,2Km)Rieti, a city of culture and tradition

Rieti (23,2Km)Food and wine in Rieti

Rieti, a city of culture and tradition

Rieti, historic center, on the left modern Italian architecture of the thirties

It tells the legend that the ancient Reate, was founded by the goddess Rea, but the origin of the city of Sabini is lost in the mists of time. The Gens Flavia, from which the principal comes from Tito Flavio Vespasiano, Roman emperor and creator of the Colosseum in Rome (finished only in the government of his son), is one of the nobles Sabine families who gave luster to the city of Rome.

Today, Rieti, is the capital of the homonymous province of the Lazio region, and here you will find history, tradition, culture, legend, and a beautiful landscape.
The city, located at an altitude of 405 meters, has a continental climate, with really hot summers and winters with nights of strict cold weather. Some typical products to taste are Fregnacce alla Reatina (a pastry filled with tomato, onions, salt and chili pepper) and the Pizzicotti (a pasta similar to that of bread served with a spicy sauce).

I recommend a visit to the Monument to the Lira, to the Church of San Domenico (inside is the remarkable organ of Dom Bedos), the City Walls (a part of an ancient wall) medieval that surrounded the city) and the Roman Bridge (its ruins on the Velino River).

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Food and wine in Rieti

Rieti, a characteristic fruit and vegetable stand

Capital of that part of Lazio called Sabina, Rieti is traditionally considered the geographical center of Italy, at an equal distance between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Adriatic Sea and between the Val Valley of Aosta and Calabria. To point out this geographical particularity, in Piazza S. Rufo there is a circular monument that conventionally identifies the center of Italy.

The monument is jokingly called the Caciotta by the Jews, almost a reference to the richness of the culinary and gastronomic traditions of Sabina. Typical of Rieti are, for example, the strengozzi, flour paste, water and salt, pulled by hand and cut into thick strips, and the frognaccia alla reatina, ie lozenges of water and flour, with or without eggs. Also worth trying are the pizzicotti di Contigliano so called because deriving from the pinch that the housewife gives to the dough to peel off a small piece of it; the concavity that comes from the pinch forms a kind of orecchietta that collects the castrato sauce with which this type of pasta is accompanied.

Almost legendary is the very tasty porchetta by Poggio Bustone, available practically everywhere in Rieti, even in small retailers that serve it as a filling of padded sandwiches. Originally from Leonessa is the tasty truffle, which is often proposed together with a typical cereal of the area, spelt, in two singular recipes, the spelt with Truffle and the soup of spelt. Finally, we should not forget a “classic” of the cuisine, the amatriciana sauce that draws its origins in Amatrice, a town in the province of Rieti on the slopes of Gran Sasso.

Created by the shepherds as a sauce for pasta, combining tomato with pork guanciale and pecorino cheese, the amatriciana sauce has long crossed national boundaries for a long time ago for also establish itself in international cuisine.

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Visit Farfa Sabina - Tourism and travel tips for your vacation or weekend.

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Rieti (23,2Km)Rieti, a city of culture and tradition

Rieti (23,2Km)Food and wine in Rieti

Rieti, a city of culture and tradition

Food and wine in Rieti

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