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| CULTURE IN THE PROVINCE |
Culture in Rieti has a living value: it is read in every stone
of the buildings and in every corner of the countryside. |
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All of the territory within the province is a showcase of culture. If you like
prose, lyric poetry, dance or operettas, you can find the musical season to
be lively and interesting throughout the Territory, culminating in eventi which
are organized at the Flavio Vespasian Theatre, architectural pride of
Rieti. The theatre is a fine acoustical jewel, and as such, has been the place
of
many recordings. The Flavio Vespasian Theatre is also an authentic art gallery
with its decorations, stuccowork, and paintings done by artists such as: Antonio
Calcagnadoro, |
Guglielmo
Ballester e Giulio Rolland. Rieti boasts as many as six theatrical groups, some of which carry on a
theatrical tradition in vernacular,
capable of using dialects and local customs.
If you love concerts you can choose from a thousand types: from
classical music, taking place in the Literary Club of Rieti, to
Jazz, with its festival in Magliano Sabino, to pop, and to ethnic
music; the province is rich in eventi and festivals throughout
the year. The bands merit a separate place: many towns in the province
have their own bands that are the pride of the town and enliven
both religious and civil festivals.
The province has many museums that have pieces of great value,
small collections, but treasures to discover: Rieti’s Civic
and Archaeological Museum, (just recently restored), The Cathedral’s
Treasury Museum, The Civic Archaeological Museum of Magliano Sabino,
The Popular Arts and Traditions Museum of Micigliano, The Farfa
Abbey Museum, The Archaeological Museum of Monteleone, and many
others. All together, they form a far-reaching cultural fabric.
Walking through these rooms one can catch the history of this land,
through Sabine and Roman archaeology or sacred medieval art, and
will also get to know ethnic and popular models of life.
Rieti also has an extraordinary library patrimony, often ignored.
From the secular Farfa Abbey Library, with its 45,000 volumes and
its valuable manuscripts, to the City Hall’s Paroniana Library
to which has been donated a new and efficient building; from the
Riposati Library, with its Latin thematic section to the numerous
libraries of the other municipalities.
To visit the territory’s cultural places…be guided by
our Routes for the Culture
in the province. |
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