Pieve Santo Stefano Town Center

Pieve Santo Stefano is an Italian town of about 3000 inhabitants famous for having become the "City of the diary" in 1984. In fact, here is the National Diary Archive, a unique place in Italy created by the journalist and writer Saverio Tutino where more than 8000 unpublished testimonies and memories of ordinary citizens are kept. In 1944 the mines of the retreating German army destroyed the ancient town and erased the memory of the past of Pieve Santo Stefano. The agitated post-war reconstruction did not restore the architectural personality to the ancient village. Today, thanks to the archive, as a sort of compensation for the damage suffered, Pieve Santo Stefano has become the capital of memory.

In the northern part of the Tiber Valley, at the confluence of the Tiber with the Ancione stream.