Mustaccioli
These are sweets with diamond shape and are covered with a chocolate glaze. They are characterized by soft dough, flavour of honey and candied fruit.
La Conca Spring
La Conca Spring is another of the fountains of Fonte Nuova. Source located in the neighbourhood of the Quarto della Conca. It is of considerable size and is fed by two large basins.
Sidella Spring
Fonta Nuova is characterized by the presence of many small fountains, drinking troughs and washing sinks, now abandoned. The Sidella spring is located inside the Trentani Park.
Tor Sant’Antonio
The square tower dates back to tufo brick construction of the thirteenth century and is located in a farmhouse around which in those years was a fortified castle. Later in the seventeenth century it came under the control of the monastery of St. Anthony. The house is typical of those Read more…
Castello Di Monte Gentile
The castle was founded as a fort in 944 and in 1374 passed under the control of the Orsini family. Today only part of the central body, a tower and another small building, remain preserved.
La Torre Lupara
Until the fifties, the tower was part of an estate which had taken its name from a tower that dates back to the eleventh century when baronial families began to live in the small fortified villages, called castrum or casalia, with lookout towers. Tor Lupara is also called ‘tricolour tower’ Read more…
Church of Jesus Maestro in Tor Lupara
The church was built in 1967 and quickly expanded to match the growth in the number of residents. The old structure remains with the reinforced concrete skeleton to which two side aisles were added.
Guide of Fonte Nuova
Fonte Nova is located in Lower Sabina area along the Via Nomentana, one of the main access road to the city of Rome in the east along the course of the Tiber and Aniene rivers. In this area, even before Rome, many small centres were founded by the Sabines and Read more…
