What is Bassano in Teverina known for?

A rare animated bell tower, eleventh-century Romanesque, walled inside the sixteenth-century Torre dell'Orologio, with figures carved into its peperino. Città della Nocciola of the Cimini hills, growing region of the Tonda Gentile Romana DOP between Viterbo and the Tiber. Last spur of the Cimini hills overlooking the Tiber, on the historic Via Amerina between Lazio and Umbria.

Where is Bassano in Teverina?

Bassano in Teverina is a comune in the province of Viterbo, Lazio region of Italy, about 38 kilometers from Terni.

Lazio · Viterbo

Bassano in Teverina

A tufa-spur borgo of 1,260 above the Tiber valley between Lazio and Umbria, with a clock tower that hides an eleventh-century animated bell tower.

38 km / 24 mi

Nearest hub (Terni)

1,260

Population

Apr–Oct

Best time to visit

Recognised as

Why come

Bassano in Teverina sitson a tufa spur on the eastern offshoots of the Cimini hills, where Lazio meets Umbria above the Tiber valley. It is the smallest commune in the Tuscia Viterbese: 1,260 residents on a hill above the river. The town is built around the Torre dell'Orologio, a twenty-five-meter peperino tower with a hand-painted majolica clock from around 1700 on its face. Inside it, walled into the structure, stands the Romanesque bell tower of the older church of the Madonna dei Lumi, built around 1100 and embedded within the new tower between 1559 and 1571 by the Madruzzo family. The inner bell tower is one of the rare Italian campanili animati, with anthropomorphic figures carved into its peperino columns. The Madonna della Quercia chapel, built 1674-1678, stands around the oak where a tile of the Madonna and Child was found. Bassano is a Borgo più Bello and a Città della Nocciola of the Tonda Gentile Romana DOP.

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Known for

Torre dell'Orologio
Twenty-five-meter peperino tower of around 1500 with majolica clock face from 1700, built around an older Romanesque bell tower by the Madruzzo family.
Campanile Animato (Madonna dei Lumi)
Eleventh-century Romanesque bell tower walled inside the Torre dell'Orologio, with anthropomorphic figures carved into its peperino columns.
Santuario della Madonna della Quercia
Built 1674-1678 around the oak where a tile of the Madonna and Child was found, on the road below the centro storico.
Centro storico
Medieval ridge town on a tufa spur, one of the smallest in the Tuscia Viterbese, inscribed in I Borghi più Belli d'Italia.

When to visit

Best months · Apr–Oct

Best
Hot or crowded
Quiet
Mostly closed

April through June and September through October are the months for Bassano. Hazelnut groves leaf out in late April, harvest comes in late August into September, and the Tiber valley clears of haze in autumn. July and August touch the mid-thirties; the small centro storico empties in the afternoon heat. November through March is very quiet, fewer than 1,260 residents present some weekends, and the Tiber valley fogs over on cold mornings. The Madonna della Quercia feast in May is the village's principal religious event.