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Things to do in Cantalice Italy – what to see attractions and activities

Welcome to Cantalice Italy. If you’are planning to visit Cantalice for your next trip and you are looking for the best places to visit, here you’ll find tips and suggestions of most popular point of interest and activities not to be missed in Cantalice and surrounding. Travelers will appreciate this italian town with his rich historical and artistic heritage, local culture and environment. Discover the monuments, buildings, natural treasures and all the details that characterize Cantalice and its territory. Share and suggest a place you've visited.

What To See near Cantalice

Rieti (8 Km)

Porta Conca Mura e Torri

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Porta d' Arci

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Teatro Flavio Vespasiano

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Cattedrale Santa Maria Assunta

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Palazzo Ricci

The building entitled to the Tuscan scholar Angelo Maria Ricci is a magnificent model of neoclassical architecture.

Rieti (8 Km)

Palazzo Comunale

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Chiesa di San Rufo

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

Rieti (8 Km)

Organo di Dom Bedos

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Centro Geografico d'italia

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Palazzo Vescovile

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Battistero

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Museo del Tesoro del Duomo

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Via Roma

e historic road leading to Rieti, a place for shopping and walking. It is an ancient extension of the Via Salaria to Rome.

Rieti (8 Km)

Palazzo Vecchiarelli

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Antico Ponte Romano

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Monumento alla Lira

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.

Rieti (8 Km)

Porta Romana

Situated on Via Salaria to Rome, it was built in 1586 by order of Sixtus V, during the refurbishment of the defensive walls.

Leonessa (9 Km)

Fagus Park Leonessa

Micigliano (12 Km)

Museo Civico delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari

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.

Other attractions in Cantalice

Museums

Museo del Volo Libero "M. De Bernardi"

Destinations nearby

Rieti

It is 11,9 Km away - about 15 minutes

Castel Sant'Angelo

Castel Sant'Angelo

It is 21,2 Km away - about 25 minutes

Borgo Velino

Borgo Velino

It is 24,6 Km away - about 29 minutes

Antrodoco

Antrodoco

It is 26,4 Km away - about 31 minutes

Leonessa

Leonessa

It is 33,6 Km away - about 42 minutes

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