Porta Conca Mura e Torri
Rieti
(24 Km)
The city of Rieti is surrounded by medieval walls, consisting of towers and gates, built in the 13th century. They are the most well preserved walls in all of Italy, and over the centuries they have been restored several times. They are the best point of interest in all of Lazio. A small part of the wall was knocked down to build a street.
Via Roma
Rieti
(24 Km)
e historic road leading to Rieti, a place for shopping and walking. It is an ancient extension of the Via Salaria to Rome.
Cattedrale Santa Maria Assunta
Rieti
(24 Km)
A Romanesque church, it has several chapels in Baroque style, the crypt and the Diocesan Museum and the bell tower of the 1252 in front of the chair.
Museo del Tesoro del Duomo
Rieti
(24 Km)
The Museum of the Treasure of the Duomo was founded in the premises of the old Upper Sacristy, in the 1970s. Religious educational goods are possessions of the entire Christian community. The gallery was opened to preserve these goods and make them known to the whole community.
Museo Civico
Rieti
(45 Km)
The Civic Museum of Rieti houses in its two sections, Historical, Artistic and Archaeological, works by artists from the surrounding area. Among the collections of great importance stands out the polyptych depicting “the Madonna with Child and Saints” by Luca Tommè dated 1370 and the triptych with the Crucifixion of Zanino di Pietro of the fifteenth century.
Teatro Flavio Vespasiano
Rieti
(24 Km)
Started in 1854 on a design by Vincenzo di Camerino Ghinelli and refurbished by the Milanese architect Achille Sfrondini. The walls of of the hall are decorated with paintings of Antonino Calcagnadoro.
Chiesa Gotica di San Francesco
Cascia
(22 Km)
It was built in 1424 by Bishop Anthony Alms. Striking for the beauty of the rose window and its arched doorway. Worth seeing!
Monastero di Santa Rita
Cascia
(22 Km)
The old part of the monastery dates back to 1200, it was dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. It was enlarged in the first half of 1700 with the generous offer of John V, King of Portugal, the eye healed of cancer through the intercession of the saint.
Museo Civico delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari
Micigliano
(9 Km)
The Civic Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions was built in 1997. It is considered as one of the most particular that exposes traditional objects of everyday life. For example, cupboards, plows, tools of work in the house and also of craftsmanship. Particular is the room with the photos explaining the works.
Battistero
Rieti
(24 Km)
The construction is of the the XIII century. At the heart a XV century baptismal font with the arms of the Cardinal Angelo Capranica. Made of marble, finely decorated with flowers at the basis, with dolphins along the edge of the tub.
Chiesa di San Rufo
Rieti
(24 Km)
The nineteenth-century church has a single nave with the interior decorated of stucco and wood in particular. There is a painting called The Guardian Angel formerly attributed to Caravaggio
Porta Romana
Rieti
(24 Km)
Situated on Via Salaria to Rome, it was built in 1586 by order of Sixtus V, during the refurbishment of the defensive walls.
Torre del Cassero
Cantalice
(17 Km)
The tower of the Cassero, dating back to the 11th century, was part of a castle from the Middle Ages. Over the centuries the tower has been the subject of various renovations, this can be seen both from the rectangular shape and from a partial cylindrical shape. The structure was higher than the other Cantalice fortifications.
Centro Geografico d'italia
Rieti
(24 Km)
The city of Rieti turns out to be the Geographical Center of Italy. Named Umbilicus Italiae, it is located on a plain and on the slopes of Mount Terminillo. The origins of the founding of the city date back to the Iron Age and was dominated by the Sabines as well as by the Romans during 290 BC. annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in 1860. It is also called a city of water because on its territory there are the sources of Cottorella.
Organo di Dom Bedos
Rieti
(24 Km)
It is an impressive organ in the church of St. Dominic: it is a construction based on two treaties of the Art du Facteur d'Orgue by Dom Bedos de Celles and L'Art du-Menuisier Carrossier by Andreas Roubo.
Monumento alla Lira
Rieti
(24 Km)
The Lira Monument was inaugurated on 1 March 2003 and the choice fell on the city of Rieti, which represents the geographical center of Italy. The work was built with the use of 2,200,000 coins of 200 Lire on the project and design by the artist Daniela Fusco.
Santuario Santa Maria delle Grazie
Amatrice
(17 Km)
The Sanctuary of Madonna delle Grazie is located in Amatrice. The villa was owned by Marco Terenzio Varrone. The interior of the building is composed of baroque decorations with wooden cover.
Antico Ponte Romano
Rieti
(24 Km)
The Ancient Roman Bridge was built during the 3rd century BC. It covered the function of connecting the central area of the city with the district of the Borgo. The history of the bridge ended in the thirties of the twentieth century when it was decided to lay it in the waters of the River Velino where it initially stood.
Porta d' Arci
Rieti
(24 Km)
Porta d'Arci was built in the 13th century in the place where originally stood another door called Porta Interocrina. The structure takes its name from the Roman fortifications, called archs. It is shaped like a crenellated parallelepiped with front arch that forms the upper part and two arches one on top of the other at the back.
Castello Dragonetti de Torres
Pizzoli
(20 Km)
Dragonetti de Torres Castle was built in the 17th century on a project by Pietro Larbitro. The structure has a square plan with impressive angular turrets at the top.
Palazzo Vescovile
Rieti
(24 Km)
Often called the papal palace, located adjacent to the cathedral and built at the end of the XIII. To notice wonderful stone arches that surmount the great vault.
Palazzo Comunale
Rieti
(24 Km)
The result of several works of expansion and renovation of a structure built in the thirteenth century. The facade, which culminates in a small bell tower, has a late Baroque style.
Palazzo Ricci
Rieti
(24 Km)
The building entitled to the Tuscan scholar Angelo Maria Ricci is a magnificent model of neoclassical architecture.
Palazzo Vecchiarelli
Rieti
(24 Km)
The building, located along Via Roma, with an elegant façade and impressive portal, was built at the end of the 16th century, designed by Carlo Maderno.
Palazzo Carli
Cascia
(22 Km)
Seat of the Library of the Historical and Cultural Office, it is an old mansion owned by the city, enriched by an internal Italian garden
Museo del Volo Libero "M. De Bernardi"
Castel Sant'Angelo
(16 Km)