Poggio Mirteto is a comune (municipality) is situated in the Tiber Valley Central Italian region of Latium. Administratively Poggio Mirteto is in the province of Rieti (formerly part of the province of Perugia) and geographically this municipality is about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of Rome and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Rieti.
According to Giuseppe Marocco's 1833 book the name Poggio Mirteto means the "knoll with plenty of Myrtus plants" because in its territory there would be plenty of Myrtus plants (called mirto in Italian, which is where the adjective mirteto comes from) and the old town was built on a knoll which in Italian is translated with the toponym Poggio.
Poggio Mirteto's cathedral, formerly seat of its own bishops, became the episcopal see of the Bishop of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto.
Distance between:
Rome to Poggio Mirteto27 Miles / 44 Kms Milan to Poggio Mirteto282 Miles / 455 Kms Venice to Poggio Mirteto221 Miles / 355 Kms
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