Collalto Sabino | |
Official Name: | Comune di Collalto Sabino |
Coordinates: | 42.1333°N 16°W |
Region: | Lazio |
Province: | Rieti (RI) |
Frazioni: | Ricetto, San Lorenzo |
Mayor: | Maria Pia Mercuri |
Area Total Km2: | 22.2 |
Population Total: | 421 |
Population As Of: | 30 June 2017[1] |
Population Demonym: | Collaltesi |
Elevation M: | 980 |
Saint: | St. Gregory the Great |
Day: | 3 September |
Postal Code: | 02022 |
Area Code: | 0765 |
Collalto Sabino (Italian: label=[[Sabino dialect|Sabino]]|Collartu) is a Italian: [[comune]] (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about 50km (30miles) northeast of Rome and about 35km (22miles) southeast of Rieti. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").[2]
Collalto Sabino borders the following municipalities: Carsoli, Collegiove, Marcetelli, Nespolo, Pescorocchiano, Turania. It is located near the Lake Turano. It is home to a baronial Castle, which was owned by the Savelli, Strozzi, Soderini and, from 1641, by the Barberini families. The town is surrounded by a 15th-century line of walls.
Among the sites to the town are Palazzo Latini and the small church of Madonna della Speranza.