City of Soriano Nel Cimino

Beautiful place, very attentive to safety, they had some organization problems but they solved brilliantly and very active on a cultural and tourist promotion level ...

Stop putting a burst of fines (for years!) Even for speeding 1km from the limit of 90km / h (road to Civitavecchia). If you want I will send you the photo of the fine. They raise money at the expense of poor Christians. Good compliments. Keep it up, take a few euros and shame on a country that may be beautiful but obviously hostile to tourists and travelers.

Bad experience. In the middle of the Covid period, while all the regions around Lazio are orange, we decide to take a motorbike ride and go to visit Soriano which according to many is very beautiful and the food is good. In short, we wanted to do our part and help, as far as possible, the economy of a country that does not have the same opportunities as Rome. In short, between eating and refueling we were ready to spend about 300 euros. All good until someone made us change our mind. Arriving on the main square, near the restaurant where we wanted to eat, after noticing the presence of no direction signs, we notice the blue stripes just beside the roadway closed to traffic and we park the motorcycles. In short we are approached by a person who qualifies as the commander of the local police, without however showing a document that certifies it and in plain clothes, and who in short invites us to leave. Not wanting to feed any controversy, also considering how the dialogue proceeded, and after briefly explaining why we parked the bike inside the blue lines, we got dressed and left the country. After a few kilometers we found a much more welcoming place in the Rignano Flaminio area where we ate well and gladly spent our money. Obviously the story of this lack of flexibility towards tourists in this particular period has already made the rounds of the motorcycle clubs that will decide in the future whether to stop in the municipality of Soriano or simply pass through it. In Maiora

Soriano nel Cimino is a small medieval village. The oldest part is made up of small houses and sloping alleys overlooking large expanses of chestnut trees. Absolutely visit the splendid Orsini palace, around the castle stands the ancient medieval village, still in excellent condition, with narrow and characteristic alleys and squares.

Italian wonder in the Cimini mountains. The history of this village is very wide, however between the Middle Ages and the modern Era Soriano nel Cimino experienced its best moment. Soriano nel Cimino was a possession of the Orsini family from 1278 to 1366. Dante in the Divine Comedy refers to Pope Nicholas III in canto XIX of the Inferno making him say: and I was really the son of the bear, cupid yes to advance the bears The imposing castle that dominates the town was built by Pope Nicholas III between 1277 and 1279 [14], in the second half of the fifteenth century it was restored and reinforced. The importance of this fortress in the defense of the papal state is demonstrated by the coats of arms of the popes Callistus III and Innocent VIII. There is also the coat of arms of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia to indicate the role he had played for about 50 years before as vice chancellor under 5 popes and later as pope with the name of Alexander VI. In this period Soriano can count on a large supply of water and has a fair number of fountains. The fountain inside the old walls of the town towards the middle of the fifteenth century is dedicated to Pope Nicholas IV. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century: Cardinal Madruzzo and the Altemps Modify In 1715 Soriano was bought by the Albani family, the family of Pope Clement XI (the first to govern is Carlo Albani) who carried out numerous architectural works of embellishment and restoration: they completed the construction of Papacqua's palace and restored numerous monuments and churches. The Albani also owed the new facade of the church of Sant'Eutizio, the main church of the old part of the town. At the edge of the town and on the main access roads to the town, the Albans built three new gates: Porta Romana, still existing, entrance door from the south to the end of Via Romana (now Via Benedetto Brin), and those destroyed: Porta Castagnara (at the end of Via Roma) and Porta del Casalaccio (at the end of Via Innocenzo VIII) [7] [11]. In 1721 being the Albani family devoid of male descendants Soriano passed to the Sienese family of the Chigi princes. The nineteenth century In 1848 the Chigi family renounced jurisdiction over the fief of Soriano in favor of the Papal State, which exercised direct jurisdiction until 1870, to then be given, to counter the arrival of the Garibaldians, to the newly proclaimed Count Pietro Fusco, who attempted a heroic defense of the city, albeit vain. The Papal State hoped in fact that Fusco was able to repel the Garibaldians and to stop the king's assault. His appointment must therefore be considered in the perspective of the defense of the city, rather than in his administration. Fusco was proclaimed Count of Soriano in Cimino only a few months before it yielded to the assault. RisorgimentoModifica During the Risorgimento the Sorianese territory was characterized by strong fermentation: both during the Roman Republic of 1849, and during the insurrectional attempt of 1861 and by the Garibaldian revolt of 1867: many Sorianesi participated in the battle of Bagnoregio in October 1867. Recent History From the unification of Italy to the Second World War On 12 November 1870 Soriano was occupied by Italian troops heading for Rome and became part of the nascent unified Italian state. The municipal elections of 1920 are won by the Italian Socialist Party but since the end of 1921 episodes of intolerance and violence have begun: the socialist junta is replaced by a prefectural commissioner first and then by a new council. In 1942, following a rectification of borders, the fraction of Chia, already belonging to the municipality of Bomarzo, was aggregated to Soriano [15]. After 8 September 1943 Soriano is occupied by the retreating Nazi troops. Even if the partisan activity never knows the extent of the northern Italian war of resistance, in the territory of the Cimini mountains, following the GAP model, it is active with acts of sabotage, assistance to Italian and allied soldiers and with the spread of the clandestine press. On the evening of June 5, 1944,

As for the fines from the Local Police ... park well and take 4 steps that won't hurt you. In front of the sports field there is a parking lot that is always empty but the car knows to put where it cannot be put.

Days of celebration in Soriano nel Cimino, with the event Il Castello dei Sapori, the flag-wavers and the brass and drum band in period costume (all very young and very talented). Various tastings with exclusively local products and, of course, many chestnuts ... Anyway, a beautiful country all year round, with more than discrete history, art and architecture, still alive today and lived with passion by its inhabitants.