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.
From elsewhere in Italy
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Noto
Province: Siracusa
The capital of Sicilian Baroque, rebuilt entirely in golden limestone after 1693.
Cetona
Province: Siena
A medieval borgo at 384 meters, sold by Cosimo I to the Vitelli in 1556 and the centro storico still shaped by their fortress reconstruction.
Macerata Feltria
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
A 1,889-resident Borghi più belli borgo at 321m in the Marche side of the Montefeltro, built over the Roman municipium of Pitinum Pisaurense, with a small thermal spa still drawing on the same sulphurous spring water the Romans used.
Greccio
Province: Rieti
A 705-meter borgo on a ridge above the Rieti valley, built around the cave of the first living nativity scene.
Irsina
Province: Matera
A 548-meter Bradano-valley hill town, called Montepeloso until 1895, whose cathedral holds a Renaissance rarity.
