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Ideal place for cycling

Sanctuary of Grecchio, one of the four shrines of St. Francis around Rieti Valley. Here, Francis depicted the Christmas story with living figures to help the local farmers understand it. Since then, setting up a nativity scene at Christmas has been a custom throughout most of the Christian world. Grecchio is a very special place

A small hamlet of Terni, on the border between the Terni basin and the Rieti plain, crossed by the Velino river, it gives its name to the homonymous waterfall. An almost obligatory passage if you are between Terni and Rieti

The walls surround the entire center, of Roman origin, of which few traces remain; the medieval walls built in the 13th century are still widely visible with their towers and portals, which are considered "among the most imposing and best preserved in Lazio. Very suggestive

It is early morning and the air is still like the lake water, everything is silent before the awakening of nature and man. The sun is there and begins to make visible the palette of a thousand colors. It is life that gives itself

The name Piediluco derives from Latin and means "at the foot of the sacred forest", the town stands on the shores of the lake of the same name and at the foot of Mount Luco. Once upon a time the main commercial activity was fishing. This close relationship with the lake is also visible in the bas-reliefs of the entrance door of the church of San Francesco where fish and fishing tools are depicted. On the day of the summer solstice the town comes alive for the Water Festival with concerts, dances and a parade of allegorical boats.

Castel di Tora watches over Lake Turano from above, mirroring itself in its green waters

From Rieti, it seems clear to me