Patron saint festival In 212 days
Feast of Saint Victor
📅 Every year, on 14 May
On 14 May Otricoli celebrates Saint Victor; in summer, instead, the town goes back to AD 168 with the Ocriculum re-enactment.
At the end of the eighteenth century, digging the Roman town on the bank of the Tiber, a colossal head came to light: it is the Jupiter of Otricoli, now in the Vatican Museums.
Ocriculum stood on the Via Flaminia, where the road crossed the river: in 308 BC it broke away from the other Umbrian cities to ally with Rome, and inscriptions call it splendidissima civitas Ocricolana. Cicero had a villa here. In the Middle Ages people moved higher up, where the town still stands: the 1,915 residents look down on the river from the terrace. At San Vittore grows a moraiolo olive tree that carbon 14 has dated: it is about 680 years old.
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🍝 The flavours of Otricoli
Orvieto white DOC wine from the hills between Terni and Viterbo
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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Near Otricoli
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Otricoli, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.