Montefiascone

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Montefiascone in our articles

• The best towns on a walking route in the province of Viterbo6 towns, Montefiascone among them.
• The 8 best hill towns on a walking route within 90 minutes of Terni8 towns, Montefiascone among them.
• The best towns you can reach by train in the province of Viterbo8 towns, Montefiascone among them.
• The best cheese towns within two hours of Perugia9 towns, Montefiascone among them.

What to see

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  Rocca dei Papi

  The fortress walls enclose the summit; the tower stair is narrow and gives out onto the panorama at once, the water filling the whole crater rim below.

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  Basilica di San Flaviano

  Two churches stacked on each other, the lower nave older and darker, the upper one built two centuries later and open to more light. The frescoes are original to the walls, not restored copies, and the German bishop Johannes Defuk is buried here.

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  Cattedrale di Santa Margherita

  The octagonal dome is 27 meters across, third largest in Italy by base diameter, finished in the late sixteenth century. It dominates the town's roofline the way the fortress dominates its summit.

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  Belvedere su Lago di Bolsena

  A second, lower vantage than the fortress tower, facing north across the lake rather than down onto it, and reached without the climb.

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  Via Francigena stage

  A credentialed pilgrim hostel serves the stretch of the route between Bolsena and Viterbo, part of the pilgrim road from Canterbury to Rome.

Through the year

What happens here

Feasts and festivals that come back year after year. We give the month rather than the date, because the date moves and the month rarely does. Check with the source before you plan a journey around one.

• Fiera Del Vinomarket

  usually held in August. VisitLazio - Appuntamenti per il weekend (Regione Lazio)

• Mercato Settimanale Di Montefiasconemarket

  usually held in November. eventiesagre.it