The celebration of Corpus Christi has taken place in Pisoniano from the end of the 1700s with the traditional Flower Festival, and a floral carpet along Via Roma. The road is prepared during the night before the festival, and in the morning the city rises to the colourful street with Read more…
Until a few decades ago, hemp was cultivated in the Aniene Valley and hemp was processed to make cloth, used for sheets, sacks, ropes etc. The hemp museum was created by twin brothers, Settimio and Domenico Bernardini who collected antique equipments and tools for processing, hemp products and much valuable Read more…
The church of the eighteenth century, owes its name to the image on the main altar, carried out following the model of that venerated in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The church was an important place of religious acceptance and prayer for pilgrims heading to the nearby sanctuary of Mentorella. Read more…
The first Saturday night of October in Pisoniano is celebrated autumn with one of the typical dishes of this season: pasta with beans and pork rinds. Obviously, the pasta is handmade and the beans are local. The pork rind is the skin of the pig that was widely used in Read more…
Pisoniano is located on the slopes of Mount Guadagnalo, in the Fiumicino river valley. Its name comes from the villa of Caius Calpurnius Piso, one of the conspirators of Nero, to where he fled after the attack. After the Romans and the Barbarian invasions, Pisoniano entered into control by the Read more…
