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Read more →Rieti is the emptiest province in Lazio, and its capital makes a curious claim: a plaque in Piazza San Rufo marks the geographical centre of Italy, the umbilicus Italiae. The province counts 73 municipalities and just over 155,000 inhabitants, nearly 46,000 of them in Rieti itself and 97 in the smallest village. There is no coast here — only the Sabine hills facing Rome, the plain around the capital and the Apennines rising towards Abruzzo.
This is not a place for famous monuments, which is part of the appeal. The Sabina is a landscape of olive groves and hill villages above the Tiber valley — Fara in Sabina, Montopoli di Sabina, Magliano Sabina, Poggio Mirteto — and its oil has been pressed here for centuries. Cittaducale still shows the grid plan of a medieval new town, and east of Rieti, around Borgorose, the country turns to Apennine pasture.
Towns in the province of Rieti
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73 towns
Accumoli Amatrice Antrodoco Ascrea Belmonte in Sabina Borbona Borgo Velino Borgorose Cantalice Cantalupo in Sabina Casaprota Casperia Castel di Tora Castel Sant'Angelo Castelnuovo di Farfa Cittaducale Cittareale Collalto Sabino Colle di Tora Collegiove Collevecchio Colli sul Velino Concerviano Configni Contigliano Cottanello Fara in Sabina Fiamignano Forano Frasso Sabino Greccio Labro Leonessa Longone Sabino Magliano Sabina Marcetelli Micigliano Mompeo Montasola Monte San Giovanni in Sabina Montebuono Monteleone Sabino Montenero Sabino Montopoli di Sabina Morro Reatino Nespolo Orvinio Paganico Sabino Pescorocchiano Petrella Salto Poggio Bustone Poggio Catino Poggio Mirteto Poggio Moiano Poggio Nativo Poggio San Lorenzo Posta Pozzaglia Sabina Rieti Capital Rivodutri Rocca Sinibalda Roccantica Salisano Scandriglia Selci Stimigliano Tarano Toffia Torri in Sabina Torricella in Sabina Turania Vacone Varco Sabino
The top 6 places in Rieti
Our editors' ranking: the area's most important places, drawn from the individual town guides. See the national rankings →
1 🖼️ Museums Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. 2 ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. 3 🏰 Castles & palaces Palazzo Dosi Delfini 📍 Rieti The Vincentini palazzo on piazza Vittorio Emanuele II in Rieti, with a rusticated front and an elliptical courtyard. Rieti and around, on the map
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🏖️ Seaside 5 🏛️ UNESCO heritage 4 🏘️ Villages 1 🍷 Food & wine 1 🛶 Lakes 1 ♨️ Spa towns 1
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Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle
📅 Every year, on 30 November (Saint Andrew) and 10 May (Saint Cataldus)
Cottanello celebrates Saint Andrew the Apostle on 30 November; the municipality also celebrates Saint Cataldus, on 10 May, to whom the Eremo di San Cataldo is dedicated.
Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle
📅 Every year, on 30 November
On 30 November Collevecchio celebrates its patron Saint Andrew the Apostle; the municipal territory preserves the archaeological area of Poggio Sommavilla.
Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle
📅 Every year, on 30 November
On 30 November Pescorocchiano celebrates its patron Saint Andrew the Apostle; the municipal territory is linked to the ancient Italic Res Publica Aequiculorum.
Saint Barbara, patron in a chapel designed by Bernini
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Rieti celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December, venerated in an 18th-century chapel designed by Bernini within the cathedral complex, where in 1234 Pope Gregory IX canonised Saint Dominic and in 1289 Charles II of Anjou was crowned.