Point of interest
More than 3,000 years of history, the passage of extraordinary artists, the passion of today's men for art and culture, great works of the past, as well as contemporary experiments: among fortresses, museums, abbeys, adventure parks and nature trails, you will discover a surprising territory.
Fossato di Vico
Municipal Antiquarium
The civic collection, set up in 2001, is housed on the upper floor of the medieval building which was the first seat of the Municipality and then...
Abbatial Church of the Silvestrini
On the abbatial Church of the Silvestrini, of Benedictine observance, perhaps built in 1200, the date of foundation is engraved in Gothic...
Church of San Pietro
The church of San Pietro is the oldest of Fossato di Vico, originally erected as a monastery of the Camaldolese monks as reported by the...
Church of San Sebastiano
The first news, which refers to a monks and san Sebastiani, is from 1502 and therefore the church, municipal, is likely to origin late fifteenth...
Templar Church of Santa Croce
In the locality of Collina di Purello stands the small rural church of Santa Croce de Culiano. The toponym Culiano is very likely Latin origin....
Former Church of San Cristoforo
13th century abbey church. The oldest piece of information from a parchment deed drawn in the church of St. Peter in 1304 by the notary Petre...
The oven of the Pan Venale
Bakery of the "pan venale" in the papal era, meant paid bread; here the panicocolo (baker) did it and sold it, giving it to be sold also...
The Roccaccio
The Roccaccio is the ruin of the primitive castrum ditches, built by Byzantine, in Greek fossaton means fortification on the hill, in function of...
The old Municipal building
It is the palatium comunis castri ditches whose construction in loco and casalino ubi nunc est can be read in the medieval Statutes of the castle...
The Piaggiola
La Piaggiola is a twelfth-century studio with a barrel vault and four arches hinting to move it, called Chiesina of Santa Maria della Piaggiola,...
The Public Tower
The Public Tower is a stone building overlooking the central square and topped by round arches. In the Middle Ages it had the function of scanning...
The Ancient Jails
The Carceri are made up of three rooms, perhaps dating back to the thirteenth century, intercommunicating, carved into the rock that in some...
Wrinkles
Le Rughe is a rare and evocative example of 13th century castle architecture, which solves the problems of traffic and defense along the perimeter...
Monastery of Santa Maria del Fonte
The Monastery of Santa Maria del Fonte belongs to the Benedictine order. Among the five monastic settlements of the Middle Ages fossatano is the...
Bridge of San Giovanni
The bridge, located along the Via Flaminia route, presumably dates back to the Augustan age. It has a single archway, shoulders and masonry...