Tisichelle
The ’tisichelle’ are a typical local sweet: donuts covered with icing made with egg whites and sugar.
Hermitage of Saint Michael Archangel
The hermitage of Saint Michael Archangel is located in Montorio in Valle, in the municipality of Pozzaglia Sabina. It is a small church built inside a cave, where, according to tradition, the warrior killed the dragon. Today this territory is part of the Way of St. Benedict. The cave, which Read more…
Church of Santa Maria del Piano
This church was once a powerful and prosperous abbey of which little remains because of numerous thefts. The first documentation of the eleventh century is located in the register of the Abbey of Farfa. Oral traditions speak of a church founded in the ninth century by Charlemagne. Of the limestone Read more…
St. Stephens Church
The church is mentioned for the first time in 1252 in Rieti church inventory, but its appearance dates back to the seventeenth century to the Santacroce works and the feudal lords at that time. The interior has a nave and three altars surrounded by columns and fake baroque decorations. On Read more…
Arch of the seventeenth century
The arched entrance to the village, or the Gate, is a round arch in limestone of irregular shapes. It was built by Valerio Santacroce in the first half of the seventeenth century, as evidenced by the coat of arms on the vault.
Guide of Pozzaglia Sabina
The name of the town should derive from Pozzo Gallo as depicted in the municipal coat of arms. According to tradition, Pozzaglia was founded by Charlemagne’s troops after defeating the Saracens in the ninth century and it became a possession of the Abbey of Farfa. In the thirteenth century it Read more…
