Soriano nel Cimino has 8,544 inhabitants at four hundred and eighty metres, at the foot of Monte Cimino, the highest peak of the Cimini. Up to eight hundred metres it is all chestnut wood; on the summit, instead, there is a wood of centuries-old beeches of some fifty hectares. The «nel Cimino» is an addition of 1871, decided so as not to confuse the town with Soriano Calabro. On the origin of the name the theories are many: among them the Etruscan surus, which means pole or wood.
In 1278 the family that ruled the village was accused of heresy and lost control of it: pope Nicholas III gave it to the Orsini, had a castle built there and spent the summers of 1279 and 1280 in it — and here he died, in the autumn. Two centuries later, in 1489, count Pietro Paolo Nardini killed the castellan and tried to seize the town: the people of Soriano captured him, killed him and drove back his soldiers. The pope rewarded them with privileges and with permission to add one word to their coat of arms: Fidelitas.
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📅 Every year, on 6 December, with the living nativity scene set in the woods
Soriano nel Cimino celebrates Saint Nicholas on 6 December, in the church dedicated to him; the co-patron, Saint Eutizio, is celebrated on 15 May. During the Christmas season a living nativity scene is set up in the woods.
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Soriano nel Cimino celebrates the co-patron Saint Eutizio on 15 May; the patron, Saint Nicholas, is celebrated on 6 December.
A white wine carved into Etruscan tufa history, toasted by Garibaldi's Thousand: Orvieto has held Denominazione di Origine Controllata status since 1971.
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Outside Soriano nel Cimino, but an easy day trip away.
