The best road cycling routes around Casaprota

picturesque village perched on a hilltop. The town hall square provides access to the village and the town's castle, there is also a bar and a public fountain, as well as the possibility to park your bike in the designated stands and rest on comfortable benches

spectacular view of the lake and mountains

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The walls surround the entire center, of Roman origin, of which few traces remain; the medieval walls built in the 13th century are still widely visible with their towers and portals, which are considered "among the most imposing and best preserved in Lazio. Very suggestive

The Osteria del Tancia was built towards the end of the Middle Ages, around the 15th century. It arose in a strategic position, on the pass of Mount Tancia, the highest peak of the Sabine Mountains, at about 800 meters above sea level. For centuries, the Osteria del Tancia represented the most important stop along the Via del Tancia, which was the main connection between the Rieti basin and the Sabina Tiberina. This road was frequently traveled by merchants, shepherds who practiced transhumance, pilgrims and bandits.

Perfect little village with both a castle and a church on the single street. Very tidy, but completely empty at the time of our visit in the shoulder season.

Rocca Sinibalda dominates the lush Turano Valley from above, the second most important river in Sabina after the Velino. The village is dominated by a castle founded around 1060. It was rebuilt as a fortress and noble residence in the 1630s by Cardinal Alessandro Cesarini who hired the famous Sienese architect Baldassarre Peruzzi for the occasion. It can only be visited on certain days. It is therefore advisable to inform yourself before departure.

The Sabine city of Trebula Mutuesca, (or Trebula Mutusca) mentioned by Publius Virgilio Marone in the Aeneid, was located in Lazio, in the province of Rieti, in the territory of the current town of Monteleone Sabino, at 496 meters above sea level , on the southern slopes of the Sabine mountains, about 60 km from Rome. Pliny the Elder mentions two Trebulan peoples: Trebulani qui cognominantur Mutuscaei, et qui Suffenates. The ancient site is located in Monteleone Sabino, a village about 3 km to the right of the Via Salaria, between Osteria Nuova and Poggio San Lorenzo. Here notable ruins of the ancient Roman center emerge, including those of a theatre, baths or spas and parts of the ancient flooring. Several inscriptions have been found, some of which bear the name of its people, Plebs Trebulana, Trebulani Mutuscani and Trebulani Mut., which removes any doubt about the attribution of the site.... continue on the site "https://www. romanoImpero.com/2020/04/trebula-mutuesca-monteleone-lazio.html"