Category: What to see
In the historical building of the former orphanage “Beata Lucia”, in Piazza Galeotto Marzio, is hosted the Open-air Museum of the Plein-Air Painters (Museo Diffuso dei Plenaristi), an itinerary traced along the Nera River discovering the locations where these artists first started painting two centuries ago. The Beata Lucia The path with its real and virtual […]
The small village of Vigne is located on a hill crossed by the route of the ancient Via Flaminia near the Sanguinaro bridge. Vigne of Narni. A reading of the Municipal Statutes reveals a continuous state of submission of Vigne with respect to Narni. The village stretches around what is the Church of San Lino […]
The Church of San Martino, surrounded by oaks in the countryside of Taizzano is a unique place and out of time. The Church of San Martino in Taizzano. Maybe built on a pre-existed pagan temple, for the finding of some stone material in the area, the building has a structure dating between the end of […]
The ancient Abbey of Sant’Angelo in Massa rises above a hill not far from Taizzano, on the Via Tiberina towards Borgaria. The Abbey of Sant’Angelo in Massa. The structure was built on the place that was occupied by an ancient roman residence of the emperor Antonino, as evidenced by inscriptions and archeological remains found there. […]
The Church of the Saints Maria Annunziata and Silvestro, with its original bipartite structure, rises in the highest point of Taizzano. The Church of Taizzano dedicated to the Saints Maria Annunziata and Silvestro. The building, recently restored, dates between the end of 1440 and the first half of 1500. Particular is its structure with two […]
The old castle of Taizzano is located along the Via Tiberina, just above the village of Stifone and the emerald course of the Nera river. The former castle of Taizzano. Since before the Romans and also after that, the territory of Taizzano must have been useful to Nequinum (Narni before the Roman age) as point […]
The wonderful and ancient Church of San Michele the Archangel rises on a little hill not far from what was the castle of Schifanoia. The Church of San Michele Arcangelo along the Way of the Protomartyrs. Today the church is a suggestive work in Romanesque architecture, but in ancient times it must have been one […]
Not much remains of the ancient castle of Schifanoia, now a little village but in the past sentinel on the gorge between Poggio and Otricoli. The ancient fort of Lombard origin of Schifanoia. The village in the territory of Narni, hids probably in its name its longobard origin, because schiffa means “revenge”, while nauda means […]
Sant’Urbano, near the Sacred Cave of San Francesco and from Itieli, is the last village of Narni on the border with Vasciano and the municipality of Stroncone. Sant’Urbano di Narni. The medieval castle was a domain of the Castelli family from Terni and was donated half to the Abbey of Farfa in 1038. From 1277 […]
The Church of Santa Marina, now under renovation, is dedicated to the patron saint of the village along the banks of the Nera and is located in the heart of the village of Stifone. The Church of Santa Marina in Stifone. The Building, of medieval origin, was amplified and modified in 1600 in its actual […]
