Sabine Hills
The Sabine Hills is an area just north of Rome in Lazio in Italy. Perhaps most famous because its population fell victim to the “Rape of the Sabine women” by Rome, the hills have some interesting small towns.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 319 metres
- Description: Mountain range in Italy
- Also known as: “Monti Sabini” and “Sabini Mountains”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Santacittārāma Monastery and Trebula Mutusca.
Santacittārāma Monastery
Buddhist temple
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Santacittārāma is the name of the Italian Theravada Buddhist monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition lineage of Ajahn Chah located near Rome. In the spring of 1990 the Italian Bhikkhu Ajahn Thanavaro and then Anagārika John Angelori were sent by Ajahn Sumedho to take up residence in a small house outside the village of Sezze south of Rome.
Trebula Mutusca
Archaeological site
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Trebula Mutusca was an ancient city of the Sabines. It is located at Monteleone Sabino, a village about 3 km to the east of the Via Salaria. Pliny mentions both Sabine cities named Trebula: Trebulani qui cognominantur Mutuscaei, et qui Suffenates.
Santa Vittoria
Church
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Santa Vittoria is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church located outside of the town of Monteleone Sabino, on the road to Rocca Sinibalda, in the province of Rieti, region of Lazio, Italy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poggio Moiano and Poggio San Lorenzo.
Poggio Moiano
Village
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Poggio Moiano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about 45 kilometres northeast of Rome and about 20 kilometres south of Rieti.
Poggio San Lorenzo
Village
Poggio San Lorenzo is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about 50 kilometres northeast of Rome and about 15 kilometres south of Rieti.
Scandriglia
Village
Photo: santre77, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scandriglia is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about 40 kilometres northeast of Rome and about 25 kilometres south of Rieti.
Sabine Hills
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Rieti, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Sabine Hills” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Monti Sabini”
- Czech: “Sabinské hory”
- Dutch: “Sabiner Berge”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال سابين”
- Esperanto: “Sabinaj Montoj”
- Finnish: “Sabiinilaisvuoret”
- French: “Monts Sabini”
- French: “Monts Sabins”
- German: “Monti Sabini”
- German: “Sabiner Berge”
- Hungarian: “Szabin-hegység”
- Italian: “Monti Sabini”
- Ladin: “Monti Sabini”
- Latin: “Montes Sabini”
- Polish: “Góry Sabińskie”
- Spanish: “Montes Sabinos”
- Venetian: “Monti Sabini”
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