The village is spread over the characteristic hills, rich in ancient aromas and flavors, surrounded by olive groves and unspoiled nature; the history and culture that have accompanied it to our days have made it a place where time has stopped
Historic center of Tarano
Position
Via Roma, 2
02040 Tarano (RI)
Opening hours
always open
Contacts
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The village is spread over the characteristic hills, rich in ancient aromas and flavors, surrounded by olive groves and unspoiled nature; the history and culture that have accompanied it to our days have made it a place where time has stopped to allow the visitor to enjoy the pleasure of finding the ancient traditions and the splendid welcome that modernity desires.
The historic center of Tarano offers the view of an unexpected medieval scenery with its tower houses, the stone dwellings perched and joined to each other, which enclose the space of the grandiose pre-Romanesque cathedral, from which the beautiful bell tower of the twelfth rises. century.
Even the toponym “Tarano” invites a historical review of the site and arouses amazement for the correspondence of the Tarano voice with that of “Taranis”, God of lightning and storms, revered by the Celtic tribes who, in their religion of nature, preferred places and forms of worship linked to the hills, to the waters, to the identification of sacred woods.