Lazio · Rieti
Magliano Sabina
A 222-meter Sabine town on a Tiber terrace facing Monte Soratte, cathedral seat of the Sabina diocese on the Lazio-Umbria border.
Known for
SABINE DIOCESE
Seat of the Sabina diocese since the Middle Ages, the cathedral on Piazza Duomo carrying an Alfieri façade from 1735.
MONTE SORATTE
The terrace view across the Tiber to Soratte, the conical limestone outlier Horace named in his Carmina.
SABINA OLIVE OIL
DOP-protected Sabina extra-virgin olive oil produced in the comune territory, the first oil DOP recognized in Italy in 1996.
When to visit
Best · Apr–Oct
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- F
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- M
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- J
- A
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- O
- N
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- Best
- Hot or crowded
- Quiet
- Mostly closed
The festa: San Liberatore, 15 May
Why come
Magliano Sabina sits on a terrace above the Tiber valley, fifty kilometers north of Rome on the border between Lazio and Umbria. The hill above the river was Sabine ground; the Roman town of Ocriculum, just across in modern Umbria, was the regional anchor. The medieval centre grew up under the Benedictine abbey of Farfa and passed to the Holy See in the fourteenth century.
The town has been the seat of the Sabina diocese since the early Middle Ages, and the Cattedrale di San Liberatore on Piazza Duomo carries an Alfieri façade from 1735. The Chiesa di San Pietro is a twelfth-century Romanesque survival, one of the oldest standing buildings in town. From the ridge the panorama opens west across the Tiber toward Monte Soratte, the conical limestone outlier Horace wrote about in his Carmina; the view alone earned the Borghi più belli d'Italia membership in 2003.
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What to see
Cattedrale di San Liberatore
Cathedral of the Sabina diocese on Piazza Duomo, with a façade by Alfieri completed in 1735.
Chiesa di San Pietro
Twelfth-century Romanesque church, one of the oldest standing buildings in town, with its original masonry preserved.
Centro storico
Medieval upper town on the Tiber terrace, with the Palazzo Comunale, the Sabine diocese seat and surviving sections of the village walls.
Panorama on Monte Soratte
View from the ridge across the Tiber toward Monte Soratte, the conical limestone outlier praised by Horace in his Carmina.
Area archeologica di Vescovio
Remains of the Roman Forum Novum and the medieval cathedral of Santa Maria di Vescovio in the comune territory, the original Sabine episcopal seat.
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Living here
- Population 3,433
- In-betweeni
- Pharmacy in town
- High school within a 30-minute drive
- Train station in the comune
- Nearest airport Rome, 1 h 37 min drive
- Regional capital Roma, 1 h 2 min drive
Tags & datadesignations · numbers · sources
Recognised as
The numbers
- Elevation: 222 m
- Population: 3,433
- Surface area: 43.23 km²
These figures were compiled from public directories — ISTAT, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata — and from the official listings of the guides named on this page. Town details change; verify with official sources before you travel.
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