Carnival in Graffignano
In March, the village of Graffignano in the province of Viterbo celebrates the Carnival with great fashion shows and celebrations, allegorical floats, handicraft stands and street food through the streets of the town.
Feast of the Madonna della Misericordia in Graffignano
The third Sundays of October in Sipicciano, municipal fraction of Graffignano, is celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Mercy with solemn religious ceremonies and torchlight processions. The effigy of the Madonna is found in the parish church of Sipicciano. The sanctuary, together with the Madonna del Nespolo and the Read more…
Orvieto DOC wine
The origin of Orvieto grape growing is lost in history, and the landscape is characterized by rows of vines. The past is told by paintings on the Etruscan tombs of the territory of the fourth century BC. The frescoes in the Golini tomb reproduce the preparatory stages of the Etruscan Read more…
Feast of the Madonna Castellonchio
On May 1st the feast of Our Lady of Castellonchio is celebrated with a pilgrimage to the sanctuary.
Feast of San Filippo Neri
In May the feast of San Filippo Neri is celebrated with solemn ceremony.
Lake Alviano
The lake is popular with fishing enthusiasts and numerous hunters, who can practice hunting ducks on the river Tiber.
Sanctuary of the Madonna of Castellonchio
In this shrine for over 400 years a miraculous fresco of the Madonna has been revered. There are other frescoes, various votive offerings and a painting of the Umbrian school depicting the ‘Madonna between the Saints Sebastian and Rocco’.
Church of San Martino Vescovo
The church is famous for a copy of the painting by Guido Reni depicting San Filippo Neri. In addition to this there is a wooden bust with gold and silver of the eighteenth century with the relics of the saint, an eighteenth-century picture of ‘San Carlo Borromeo’, a relic of Read more…
Baglioni Castle
The castle is an early Renaissance masterpiece built by the Baglioni family around the fourteenth century to the request of the Papal States. It was built over a previous manor and is characterized by a rectangular plan and a cylindrical tower 23 meters high with an internal spiral staircase. The Read more…
Guide of Graffignano
The area has been inhabited since antiquity as evidenced by traces of Etruscan and Roman remains in the lowlands along the river. The name of the village ‘Carfinianum’ suggests that the land had been owned by a Roman dominus called Carfinius. But the first documented reports date back to medieval Read more…
