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Rieti Province

A province of the Lazio region. Area: 2749 sq. km. Population in 2003: 148,600 • 73 comuni

The village of Castel Sant' Angelo hanging on to its hill overlooking the Velino river.

Rieti is the easternmost and most mountainous of the 5 provinces in the autonomous region of Lazio, sharing in many of the characteristics of the Abruzzo on which it borders.

	The provincial capital of Rieti is an austere sort of place surrounded by mountains. It has a number of interesting medieval churches, and a Roman bridge — underwater. [ 1 page, 1 photo ]
	Not much more than a village, Antrodoco is a handsome place with good clean air in the mountain gorges of the Velino river. One very beautiful church, characteristic streets, and yes, one of the medieval gates has an inscription of the emperor Trajan. [ 1 page, 3 photos ]
	Leonessa, known chiefly as a resort town (both for winter skiing and for summer hiking) in a small plain at the foot of some of the highest mountains in the central Apennines, is also a Città d'Arte with at least eleven old churches, an Angevin tower, a medieval gate, and attractive streets. My site focuses mostly on the churches. [ 19 pages, 74 photos ]
	I have not been to Labro; only been driven past it over a decade ago, an unforgettable experience. I may get there yet. [ 1 page, 1 photo ]

Oddly, since this is the kind of landscape I'm particularly fond of, I do not know this part of Italy very well; you will therefore find yourself using mostly offsite resources.

For the towns just listed, that I do know at least a bit, good photos, information and links to further specific sites are found on their own pages, above.
For the province as a whole, see the sites listed in the navigation bar below. They often have pages on individual towns, of course.
Finally, in the course of roaming the Web, I've happened to find some pages — in addition to whatever towns are represented, usually quite well, on the general sites in the navigation bar at the bottom of this page — for specific places I've never been to; I've collected them here. This list is almost random, by no means comprehensive:
Amatrice • Borbona • Casperia • Cittaducale • Fara in Sabina • Greccio • Magliano Sabina • Poggio Bustone • Torricella Sabina

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