How many people there were in the castrum Belmontis at the beginning of the fourteenth century is known from salt: from its consumption two hundred and fifty souls are reckoned. In 1483 the tenant farmers rebelled against their feudal lord Gabriele Cesarini and called Rieti to help; the siege that followed was driven off, and in 1501 Cesarini even obtained the protection of the Borgia pope.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus writes that Palatium, a city of the Aborigines, stood in these parts, and that in his own day it was still inhabited by Romans: the site has been located only recently, and at Terze Ville a polygonal wall remains, twenty metres long and four high. At the Guardiola there was a menhir, but it rolled down the valley. The little church of Sant'Elena is built on top of a Roman shrine.
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📅 Every year, on 10 September
On 10 September Belmonte in Sabina, a municipality of 649 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, celebrates its patroness Maria Santissima della Croce.
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