On the coat of arms of Pozzaglia there is a well with a cockerel on top of it, and the reason is the name: tradition derives it from Pozzo Gallo, the well of the cock, and the arms illustrate the idea. The Farfa Chronicle, though, gives another version and derives it from Puzalia. These lands did belong to Farfa for a long time: in the first half of the tenth century they appear in a document among the properties squandered by abbot Campone, in years when the abbey was under Saracen pressure, and they were bought back later, as a confirmation diploma of 1027 requested from the emperor Conrad II records. The abbey of Santa Maria del Piano, tradition says, was raised by Charlemagne after he had driven the Saracens from these parts.
In 1360 the chronicles of Rieti record that the Romans destroyed Pozzaglia. The village then passed to the Orsini, the Santacroce, the Borghese; but the family that left the longest mark is another one, and a local one: the Focolari, who from the seventeen hundreds onwards administered the municipality and held public office into our own century. It was Paolo Focolari who in 1818 had the great cross set up that can be seen on the mountains above the village. In the church of Santo Stefano, on the high altar, there is a painting from the school of Pietro da Cortona showing Saint Helena discovering the true cross.
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday after Pentecost
On the first Sunday after Pentecost Pozzaglia Sabina, a municipality of 361 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, celebrates its patroness Sant'Ulpia.
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Outside Pozzaglia Sabina, but an easy day trip away.
