Montopoli di Sabina is a town and ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

'' (municipality) in the

Province of Rieti The Province of Rieti ( it, Provincia di Rieti) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rieti. Established in 1927, it has an area of with a total population of 157,887 people as of 2017. There are 73 ''comuni'' ...

in the

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

region

Latium Latium ( , ; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire. Definition Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil (Old Latium) on whi ...

, located about northeast of

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

and about southwest of

Rieti Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 47,700. It is the administrative seat of the province of Rieti and see of the diocese of Rieti, as well as the modern capital of the Sabina re ...

. In 2011, it had a population of 4,222.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1055, in a document of

Farfa Abbey Farfa Abbey ( it, Abbazia di Farfa) is a territorial abbey in northern Lazio, central Italy. In the Middle Ages it was one of the richest and most famous abbeys in Italy. It belongs to the Benedictine Order and is located about from Rome, in ...

. It is locally known as ''The Town of

Privateer A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or deleg ...

s'' ( it, Il paese dei Corsari).

Geography

Montopoli, located in the southwestern corner of the province, at the borders with the one of Rome, borders with the municipalities of

Castelnuovo di Farfa Castelnuovo di Farfa is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central ...

Fara in Sabina Fara in Sabina, also spelled Fara Sabina, is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italy, Italian region Lazio, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti. History The area was inhabited in Prehistoric It ...

Fiano Romano Fiano Romano is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy, approximately north of that city. Fiano Romano borders the following municipalities: Capena, Civitella San Paolo, Montelibretti, Montopoli di Sabina, ...

( RM),

Nazzano Nazzano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about north of Rome. Twin towns * Iași Iași ( , , ; also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically ...

(RM),

Poggio Mirteto Poggio Mirteto is a ''comune'' (municipality) and former Catholic bishopric in Sabina in the Central Italian region Lazio (Latium). Administratively Poggio Mirteto is in the province of Rieti (formerly part of the province of Perugia) and geogra ...

Salisano Salisano ( it, label= Sabino, Saricianu) is a (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in L ...

and

Torrita Tiberina Torrita Tiberina is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about north of Rome. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,010 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: ...

(RM). Its southwestern borders with Fiano are crossed by the

Tiber The Tiber ( ; it, Tevere ; la, Tiberis) is the third-longest river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where it is joined by the Riv ...

river. Montopoli counts the hamlets (''

frazioni A ''frazione'' (plural: ) is a type of subdivision of a ''comune'' (municipality) in Italy, often a small village or hamlet outside the main town. Most ''frazioni'' were created during the Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Fascist era (1922–1943) as ...

'') of Bocchignano, Casenove, Colonnetta La Memoria, Ferruti, Granari, Granica, Ponte Sfondato, Ponticchio and Santa Maria.

Demographics

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Main sights

*The

Modern Automata Museum The Modern Automata Museum is a private museum of Montopoli di Sabina in the Province of Rieti, Italy, dedicated to modern automata, founded in 2001, entered in the Lazio Regional Museum organisation and listed as one of theplaces of culture from ...

, founded in 2001, is located in the town *The

cyclopean masonry Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and with clay mortar or no use of mortar. The boulders typic ...

of Grotte di Torri is located nearby the village of Ponte Sfondato

Gallery

Transport

Nearest railway station,

, is 7 km far and lies in Poggio Mirteto Scalo. It is part of the Roman suburban railway line FL1 Orte–Fiumicino, a line that crosses the southwestern corner of the municipal territory.

References

External links

Montopoli official website

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