On November 23rd in Latera the patron saint San Clemente is celebrated with a very heartfelt religious festival, which over the years has joined a party dedicated to the oil cycle. According to tradition, all night before November 23rd, the bells ring to celebrate the saint and to remind all Read more…
The last two weekends of October in Latera are dedicated to the Sagra del Marrone, which celebrates the best autumn fruit of the Alta Tuscia woods. But not only roasted chestnuts and mulled wine, the occasion of the festival is to make known the local products and the territory. A Read more…
In March is celebrated a wonderful event that occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century when a painting of the Madonna, in the church of St. Joseph, opened her eyes.
It is one of the few celebrations in northern Lazio of a Tuscan folk custom that takes place during the Epiphany. On the evening of January 5, a special group of musicians composed of the Befana, the Befano (the Count of Buon’Umor) and the town crier who reads a formula Read more…
The Good Friday procession in Latera is one of the oldest and dates back to the 1600s. One of its characteristics is the ancient folk songs that can be heard during this event and date back to that era. In fact, among the most intense and engaging moments of the Read more…
The museum is in a former Cistercian manor house, in the oldest part of the town, and shows some finds of the civilization of the town from the collection of Louis Poscia from 1972 to 1998. The museum is divided into three sections: exhibition area, documentary and didactic area.
The church was built around 1400 based on a promise made during the plague and was dedicated to St. Rocco, the patron saint of plague victims. The small church has a unique marble altar-piece, with a fine fresco of the Saint with the wound on his leg, and the little Read more…
The church is located in the heart of the village and is a small religious building in masonry similar to the surrounding houses dating back to the thirteenth century. Every year Latera celebrates a miracle that happened in this church where a painting of the Madonna opened her eyes in Read more…
The Romanesque church was one of the first and was the only baptismal site in the area. This first building is the old Romanesque façade and a Gothic arch incorporated in the Palazzo Farnese. The present church dates back to 1598 from the efforts of the Dukes and Mario Ferrante Read more…
It is also called Fontana Ducale, and was built in 1648 by Duke Pietro Farnese. It is an octagonal pool in stone, with a central pyramid-shaped support which supports a basin from which the water comes. On the eight sides of the pool are drawn emblems and an inscription in Read more…
