The first weekend of November in Filettino is celebrated in autumn with an event dedicated to the discovery of the flavors of the Simbruini Mountains, a stone’s throw from Abruzzo, and with excursions in the nearby woods. Saturday Night’s tastings are accompanied by musicians who play the characteristic popular music Read more…
Saltarello is life. It is a dance of life, of liberation, of challenge. Saltarello contains a world of messages, proposals, waste, gambling, outburst, union and jealousy. Saltarello is an ancient dance. They danced almost always outdoors, on the farmyards, after intense working days in the harvest, in the wheat harvest Read more…
With its “high” slopes it enjoys good snow cover for about five months a year. The slopes, between 1500 and 2000 meters of altitude, are equipped with two chair lifts, three ski lifts and a rope tow and are suitable for all categories of skiers. Campo Staffi looks like a Read more…
The Park is the largest protected natural area of the Lazio region, with peaks that reach and exceed 2,100 meters. There is a path with hundreds of enchanted ways including the “Trail Italy”, the largest national trekking route that crosses the park in full. There are trails for both cycling Read more…
Fountain of ‘Tre Cannelle’ (Three Spouts) receives its water from the source of the Aniene tiver and represents the centre of Filettino.
Go to Filettino and fall in love! Oh yes, it happened to me, but in a metaphorical sense: I fell in love with a taste, that of the Roman Cabbage. I had already tasted it at other times, more or less similar, more or less good. Yet here, at the Read more…
The discoverplaces.travel team is never on holiday! Soon after stuffing ourselves with food on Christmas, we decided to do it in Filettino too. With great pleasure, we drove to the charming town to start the production on a soon to be made guide, it was a fruitful trip. We took Read more…
Filettino is the highest town in the Lazio (1075 metres above sea level), and is surrounded by high mountains covered with beech forests. Before the unification of Italy, the border between the Papal State and the Kingdom of Naples passed along the mountains of Cotento and Viglio. Even today you Read more…
