Philharmonic society
The Monte San Giovanni in Sabina Philharmonic Society was founded in 1890 and has 125 years of uninterrupted activity. Not even the world wars have stopped the band, as shown by the numerous historical documents.
The Monte San Giovanni in Sabina Philharmonic Society was founded in 1890 and has 125 years of uninterrupted activity. Not even the world wars have stopped the band, as shown by the numerous historical documents.
In mid July (16 July 2016) there is the Macaroni Festival in Fezze: the macaroni is a traditional mixture of water and soft wheat flour is processed to obtain donuts which are then transformed into a skein. From this bundle are cut macaroni (irregular spaghetti).
In May there is the Festival dell’Immaginetta with the typical fair of local goods and livestock. Every alternate year they prepare the beans with either pork rind or panzanella (salad of bread, tomatoes, onion, basil and oil) with homemade bread.
St Michael’s Cave is a karst cave dug into the limestone by the erosion of water, which still has concretions in development. You can get to the terrace in front of the cave via a steep staircase carved into the mountainside near the ancient houses of the monks of the Read more…
The Inn of the Tancia was a refreshment stop on the seasonal passage for shepherds with their flocks. From the first millennium BC, in Sabina seasonal stock movement was widely practised. The mountain pastures of the summer and winter ones in the Roman Campagna and the Tuscia. In Roman times Read more…
In the tenth century two fortified settlements were founded in Tancia along the road linking the Tiber Valley and the Rieti valley. The castle of Tancia, founded between 967 and 975, and the castle of Fatucchio, in 988. Of these two villages only ruins remain today, dominated by dilapidated towers. Read more…
Monte San Giovanni is located in the mountains separating the plain of Rieti from the middle Tiber valley. There is not much recorded history and probably the village was formed around a thousand when the population took refuge in the fortified places on the heights, to escape the Saracen invasions. Read more…