Before arriving in the village, along a tuff wall there is a small facade of a chapel with the classical style of an ancient Roman temple and adorned with a tympanum in peperino and a frame around the entrance arch. The chapel was then dug into the tufa and completely Read more…
Just outside the original city walls and in a lowered position is the small church di Sant’Antonio, a rectangular building of the fourteenth century (later expanded in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) with a gable roof and a steep entrance staircase. The simple stone façade is enriched by a small Read more…
The neoclassical church is located on the hill in front of the ancient village and its dome stands out among all the other buildings. His particular style is influenced by the Vignola architecture with a geometric elegance made of pure volumes. Here is the tomb of the Torlonia family. Its Read more…
The original church was a medieval building consecrated in 1138 and was located outside the walls. In 1628 the church was also renovated with the addition of a college thanks to the Dukes of Poli who offer a land to S. Giuseppe Calasanzio to build a school for the inhabitants Read more…
Poli develops along a very long and narrow hill that originally had two entrance doors. Today the second door is no longer visible but there remain portions of a sheer cliff in the valley and a tower around which the steps that lead inside the ancient village revolve.
The entrance to the town is by a driveway that passes near the ancient gate of the village that has retained its original form. Outside a large arch through which one enters a manned place enriched by a fresco of the virgin. Beyond this area of the stairs lead to Read more…
During the festival of the Patron Saint Eustace, the citizens of Poli prepare food to offer to visitors. You can thus enjoy the first course in one house, the second in another, and so on. This is a special custom of giving hospitality that probably has its origin in a Read more…
In the main street there is the church of San Pietro Apostolo with its magnificent bell tower. The facade is neoclassical and very geometric. The interior of the church has a nave rebuilt in 1600, and is rich in decorations of gold and colored stucco and ornaments. The six side Read more…
Observing what remains of Villa Conti, known as Villa Catena, one has to imagine the beauty and the splendour of its glory when in 1563 Annibale Caro (the renowned translator of the Aeneid) described it in his Letter to Torquato Conti. The villa has three lodges and Pope Innocent XIII Read more…
At the beginning of the main street is the Palazzo Conti built between the thirteenth and fourteenth century. The palace consists of two wings of different eras linked by a large arch with a late Renaissance gateway to the building and courtyard. The entrance and courtyard are decorated and embellished Read more…
