Rieti

Rieti is the capital of the province of Rieti in the Italian region of Lazio. It has 47 153 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012). It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rieti.

• 5.1 Twin towns

• 9.1 Persons with reference to the city

Name and Coat of Arms

The name Rieti so can be derived from her ancient name Reate the Sabines for the city. The meaning of this name is unknown. According to legend, he should go back to Rhea Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus.

The adjective to Rieti ( Reatino ) and the name of the inhabitants of the city ( Reatini ) are derived from the Latin name today Reate.

The coat of arms consists of a shield divided. On top of a red background two figures in silver. A female figure with a standard and a rider. Down on azure a network with three silver fish. The figures are intended to represent Rhea Silvia, legendary namesake of the city, that Manius Curius dentate, the Roman conquerors Rieti reaches the town flag. The fish point to the abundance of fish of the rivers in the area of ​​Rieti. The city colors are red and blue.

Geography

Rieti is located 81 km northeast of Rome, 38 km south-east of Terni, 59 km west from L' Aquila. The old town is situated in a bend of the river Velino on the southern edge of the valley Conca di Rieti. The Conca di Rieti is in the north of the, named after the city, limited Reatiner mountains in Monte Terminillo 2,217 m slm reach. In the south of the Conca di Rieti is completed by the Sabine mountains. The municipality takes the Conca di Rieti an almost complete and ranges in the east and south to the mountain regions. The municipality covers an altitude from 370 to 2.105 m slm.

The area boasts numerous neighborhoods, hamlets and isolated farmsteads. The most important are the modern residential and industrial areas Madonna del Cuore, Madonna del Passo, Quattro Strade and Vazia in the valley north and east of the old town. In the Sabine mountains, the villages Casette, Castel San Benedetto, Cerchiara, Maglianello, Fidoni Poggio, Poggio Perugino, San Giovanni Reatino and Sant'Elia lie. In the mountains, the villages Reatiner Castelfranco, Lisciano and Lugnano and winter Pian de ' Valli in Terminillo area are.

The neighboring municipalities are Belmonte in Sabina, Cantalice, Casperia, Castel Sant'Angelo, Cittaducale, Colli sul Velino, Concerviano, Contigliano, Greccio, Longone Sabino, Micigliano, Monte San Giovanni in Sabina, Monte Nero Sabino, Poggio Bustone, Rivodutri, Roccantica, Stroncone (TR ), Terni (TR) and Torricella in Sabina.

The municipality is located in the seismic zone 2 (medium endangered).

Traffic

• Rieti is located on the strada stadale SS 4 Via Salaria, which leads from Rome to San Benedetto del Tronto on the Adriatic coast. Since ancient times the Via Salaria turned from the south on the forum today Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, at right angles to the east. The route bears the names of Via Roma and Via Garibaldi today. In addition to the modern bridge over the Velino is the ruin of the Roman predecessor to see. The modern Via Salaria leads as bypass with separate lanes south past the old town.
• In Rieti branches from her strada stadale SS 79 Ternana that leads to Terni.
• The town has a station on the railway line Terni - Sulmona.
• The airfield Rieti is designed for motor and sail planes.

History

Rieti goes back to ancient Reate, the main town of the Sabines. He was captured by Manius Curius Dentatus for the Roman Empire. Since about 500 AD, is Rieti seat of a bishop. In the Middle Ages it was a free commune, before it became part of the Papal States.

Demographics

Source: ISTAT

Policy

Simone Pietrangeli (SEL ) was in the second ballot on 20-21. May 2012 elected mayor. He defeated Antonio Perelli ( PdL ) with 67.2 %. Pietrangeli's center-left coalition also with 20 of 32 seats, the majority in the City Council.

Mayor of Rieti:

Twin Cities

• Japan Ito in Shizuoka Prefecture since 1985
• France Saint -Pierre- lès- Elbeuf in Haute -Normandie
• Germany Nordhorn (district of Bentheim county ) since 2010

Attractions

Worth seeing is the Romanesque cathedral of 1225, of reaching back to the year 1283 Bishop's Palace and the city's fortifications from the 13th century.

Economy

Of importance is the manmade fiber and sugar industries.

Sports

In Rieti since 1971 takes place Athletics Grand Prix meeting, at the September 9, 2007, the Jamaican Asafa Powell in a time of 9.74 seconds set a new world record in the 100 -meter run.

The American basketball player Joe Bryant played in Rieti from 1984 to 1986 (after another 5 years in Italy ); his son, the current NBA star Kobe Bryant, attended elementary school in Rieti, thus laying the foundation for his fluent knowledge of Italian.

On 29 August 2010, the Kenyan David Rudisha improved with 1:41,01 min over the 800 - meter distance its only a week previously established world record in Rieti by eight hundredths of a second.

From 18 to 21 July 2013, the European Athletics Junior Championships were held in Rieti at the Stadio Raul Guidobaldi.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC -27 BC), polymath
• Antonio Gherardi (1638-1702), painter and architect
• Nicola Canali (1874-1961), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Eugenio Garin (1909-2004), Italian philosopher
• Renzo De Felice (1929-1996), historian

Persons with respect to the city

• Francis of Assisi appeared in Rieti and its valley
• Charles II of Anjou was crowned in 1289 in Rieti King of Naples
• Andrew Howe ( born 1985 in Los Angeles ), Italian athlete who grew up in Rieti

Gallery

Cathedral of Santa Maria

San Francesco

Porta Romana

Banks of the Velino