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The remnants of an abbey that Charlemagne is thought to have founded in the ninth century.
A short distance away from Rome, on a foot-trail departing from the historical village of Orvinio, there stands a magnificent abbey in ruins known locally as Santa Maria del Piano. According to legend, the abbey was built by Charlemagne in the 9th century following a victory on the battlefield of nearby Pozzaglia Sabina against the Saracens. An inscription on the façade states that presbyter Bartholomew restored the church in 1219: Bartholomeus hoc op fierifecit 1219.
