Castello di Foglia

Like a hawk on a rock overlooking a bend of the river Tevere in Sabina, stands the Castle of Foglia.
Situated on a hill at 220 m. on the sea, where you can admire an enchanting view over a vast horizon that includes the Tiber Valley and Mount Soratte, towns and villages to the mountains of Cimini hills, the Umbrian hills, mountains and Sabini Tiburtini. Building in 980, out existing settlement inhabited since the tenth century b.C. by Sabine populations, the castle owes its importance to the dominant control of the river port and the ford of the Tevere on the Via Flaminia, which flows right behind the rocca, who controls the strength of Foglia controls access to Rome from his nord. The importance at that time is testified by the fact that fled there in 1155 Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III.
Pope Nicholas IV Orsini exchange it with the Castle Sant'Angelo in Rome, rebuilt the fortress, making it the center of the rule of the Orsini in the north Lazio. During the domains in the high end of the sixteenth century, the Donjon is transformed into a building be able of accommodating a renaissance court . Now the castle is a private residence that houses a number of cultural initiatives and patronage of arts.
It's the seat of the Academy of Foglia
of E.Ri.Fo. (Institute for Research and Training),
and Una Voce - Sabina (Association for the Protection of the Mass in Latin and Gregorian chant)