The best city hikes and walks in Rieti

The statue was commissioned by Monsignor Massimo Rinaldi, created by the sculptor Cristo Giordano Nicoletti from Rieti, and solemnly inaugurated on November 25, 1927.

Via Roma is the central shopping street of Rieti.

The gardens are named after Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, the architect who built them, and belong to Palazzo Vincentini, which overlooks them from a splendid loggia. The Italian garden remained the property of the Vincentini family until the 20th century, inaccessible and separated from the square by a high wall. When the palace was sold to the Province of Rieti in 1927, the garden was made accessible to the public and the wall was replaced by a gate. From the gardens, there is a beautiful panoramic view of a part of the city of Rieti. Absolutely worth seeing.

From Piazza Cesare Battisti you have a good view of the Roman ruins.

The palace was built between 1283 and 1288 by Maestro Andrea. As it was damaged by several earthquakes over the centuries, it was repeatedly rebuilt and remodeled. For example, after the earthquake of 1298, the Arco di Bonifacio VIII was erected. On the ground floor, space was created for various shops, which were used until the beginning of the 20th century. Today, exhibitions (e.g. a life-size nativity scene) take place there.

The walls surround the entire center, of Roman origin, of which few traces remain; the medieval walls built in the 13th century are still widely visible with their towers and portals, which are considered "among the most imposing and best preserved in Lazio. Very suggestive

Monument to the victims of the 1944 air raid, Rieti Monument to the victims of the air raid of June 6, 1944 Via Borgo Sant'Antonio, 72, 02100 Rieti RI, Italy

Palazzo Governo, Piazza Cesare, Rieti Prefecture of Rieti / Prefecture - Territorial Office of the Government of Rieti Historical Notes on the Government Palace The Palazzo Vincentini, located in Piazza Cesare Battisti in Rieti, is remembered in ancient documents as Casa Poiana, since the powerful Marco Antonio Vincentini purchased it from the Poiani family of Amelia in 1589. Renovation work began that same year and was completed after 1624. According to literary tradition, the architect responsible for the construction was the 19th-century painter Jacopo Barozzi, known as Vignola. The palace, in the late Mannerist style, has an elegant door on its main façade, decorated with the family coat of arms with the flame in the center, five eight-pointed stars in the central band, and the sea in the background. When the Vincentini family sold the palace to the Province of Rieti in 1927 to provide a worthy home for the Prefecture, the garden fence was demolished, transforming it from a place of private entertainment into a place of popular assembly. Inside the building are the Prefectural offices, and on the ground floor are the Prefect's private apartments. From an artistic point of view, it is important to remember two valuable pictorial works by local artists active in the various fields. On the ground floor, in front of the entrance, there is a small room painted by the painter Arduino Angelucci (Rieti 1901-1981), who in 1931 created the pictorial decorations of the wall in tempera and the safe. The murals tell the ancient history of Sabina through medallions, coats of arms, and monumental figures in niches celebrating the region's historically significant figures: the scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC) and the Emperor Flavius Vespasian (9 AD). The coats of arms of the most important villages of Sabina are highlighted: Rieti, Cittaducale, Poggio Mirteto, Fara Sabina, Orvinio, Leonessa, Borbona, Rocca Sinibalda, Borgorose, Amatrice, and Magliano. In addition, views of the centers of Rieti, Vescovio, Amatrice, Farfa, and the forged bronze medallions depict four episodes from the Legends of the Sabine Women: the "Rape of the Sabine Women," the "Sacrifice to Rhea," the "Sacrifice to Saturn," and the "Sacred Spring." Text / Source: Prefecture - Territorial Office of the Government of Rieti https://www1.prefettura.it/rieti/contenuti/Cenni_storici_sul_palazzo_del_governo-8273.htm