Ski Area
Ski Area in Lazio
3 towns
Lazio holds 3 Ski Area sites inside our catalogue. They cluster in the Frosinone, Rieti, and Roma provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Subiaco, Rieti, and Picinisco.
Subiaco
Province: Roma · 408 m
The Aniene valley town where Benedict spent three years in a cliff cave, and where Italy's first printed book appeared in 1465.
Rieti
Province: Rieti · 405 m
The Sabine capital on the Velino, claimed as the center of Italy, under Monte Terminillo and the Franciscan sanctuaries of the Valle Santa.
Picinisco
Province: Frosinone · 725 m
A medieval village at 725 meters on the eastern edge of Lazio, the source of much of Italo-Scottish emigration.
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Venzone
Province: Udine
A 230-meter walled medieval town in the Tagliamento valley, leveled by the 1976 earthquake and rebuilt stone by stone, winner of Borgo dei Borghi 2017.
Orta San Giulio
Province: Novara
A promontory facing an islet basilica, with a UNESCO complex of Francis-of-Assisi chapels on the hill above.
Belgirate
Province: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
A small Lake Maggiore village at 199 meters whose Chiesa Vecchia di Santa Maria has held its 11th-century Romanesque bell tower for nine hundred years.
Montegiordano
Province: Cosenza
A 619-meter hill town with a hunting castle and a centro storico turned into a gallery of murals.
Montegridolfo
Province: Rimini
A walled borgo of fewer than a thousand residents on the Romagna-Marche border, held alternately by the Malatesta and the Montefeltro through the fifteenth century.