The photostory of the week No. 04/2023 in Valle di Comino takes us on a discovery of the natural beauty of this enchanting valley located between the provinces of Frosinone and Caserta, a stone's throw from the Abruzzo Lazio and Molise National Park. The Comino Valley is an enchanting place that deserves to be explored and enjoyed. This [...]
San Donato Val di Comino celebrates Holocaust Memorial Days from 15 to 29 January 2023. The main internment site for foreign Jews in Lazio will host public meetings, lectures, visits to the Museum of the 20th century and the Shoah, screenings and the inauguration of the Shoah Memorial to remember the Shoah.” Programme 15 JANUARY 2023 21 JANUARY 2023 [...]
The first snow of 2023 has arrived in Valle di Comino! After a somewhat anomalous December in terms of temperatures, January brought cold and snow. Enjoy the photos of the Comino Valley villages with snow! Have fun and be careful if you are walking or driving! You can also check out [...]
The Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park celebrates its first century of existence. On 11 January 1923, the hunting reserve of the King of Italy became one of the most beautiful places in our country. In fact, although the park was created by private initiative on 9 September 1922, its establishment was made official on 11 January [...].
Art, handicrafts, typical products, sweets. But also lights, Christmas carols and a world of fun for children, all this and more in the villages of the Comino Valley for Christmas 2022. A double appointment on Saturday 10 December. The Christmas melodies of the bagpipes and ciaramelle of the Comino Valley will be at the centre of the evening in the [...]
Maggio 1944: l’ombra della ritirata sulla Valle di Comino Nel maggio del 1944, la Valle di Comino si trovava sospesa tra la speranza e il terrore. Mentre le truppe neozelandesi stavano entrando vittoriose nel territorio di Atina, portando con sé il profumo della libertà, l’esercito nazista in ritirata si lasciava alle spalle una scia di […]
Giulio Prudenzio di Alvito, nephew of Mario Equicola and courtier of Federico Gonzaga first and then of Vittoria Colonna, retired in old age in Alvito, and was the first of the few learned countrymen to write a «Discrizione d'Alvito et suo Contato raccolta parte dal trovato, parte dal visto et parte dallo inteso». The county of Alvito, in that [...]
Settefrati, a municipality in the Comino Valley, belongs to the district of Alvito, the district and diocese of Sora and the military district of Frosinone; it depends on the Civil and Correctional Court of Cassino, the Court of Assizes of S. Maria Capua Vetere and the Court of Appeal of Naples. It is part of the electoral college of Sora [...].
The immense variety of the ring roads that follow the contour lines, of the radial slope roads and those intermediate between the first two, determines a richness and typological-formal variety in the buildings that flank them that it is impossible here to provide an exhaustive picture of them. The images that follow are only a sampling [...].
On 25 September 1656, d. Giovanni Macari of Settefrati, in a holographic will, signed by five witnesses, wrote his last will regarding the destination to be given to his property after his death. Prominent among his dispositions was the bequest made to the church of S. Maria di Canneto, which began with the ritual formula: “Likewise [...]