The Permanent Museum of Contemporary Art of Turania was founded with the donation of over 200 works by the sculptor Silvio Amelio, director of the museum.

It is located within the municipal building, and among the works that deserve attention is a prestigious bronze sculpture of Father Pio.

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The Museum of the artist "Maria Petrucci" in Toffia is in five rooms of the Raniero House dating from the seventeenth century.

The works of art include wood sculptures, oil paintings and artistic passages with experimental materials. A section is then devoted to objects of popular and peasant culture.
 

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In the Museum of Olive Oil of Sabina in Castelnuovo di Farfa there is a section in which five world famous artists - Alik Cavaliere, Gianandrea Gazzola, Maria Lai, Hidetoshi Nagasawa and Ille Strazza - interpreted by sculpture and music, oil and its tradition in contemporary society.

Among other equipments, the museum houses a rare collection of Sabine olive presses showing the evolution of oil production in this region over four centuries.

In Canneto (hamlet of Fara in Sabina) is the largest olive tree in Europe with an estimated age of about 2,000 years, and a trunk measuring about 20.7 meters in circumference.

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The City Museum of Antrodoco is dedicated to the seventeenth-century painter and engraver Carlo Cesi and a collection of the works of Albanian painter Lin Delija.

The artist Carlo Cesi was born in Antrodoco in 1622 and his works can be seen in Rome in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in the Palazzo del Quirinale, the Colonna Palace and Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia.

The Albanian painter Lin Delija was born in Scutari in 1926 and had been forced to leave Albania concluding his studies in Rome and lived for many years in Antrodoco. His interpretation of the deep Catholic faith makes him a unique artist in his genre.
 

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The Emilio Greco Museum in Sabaudia was established in 1985 with donations by the sculptor.

It is located in the ground floor of the Town Hall and exhibits more than eighty works: drawings, etchings, lithographs, bronzes, plasters, coins and medals, and a series of commemorative stamps.

The works of Emilio Greco are exhibited in major museums around the world. He carved the doors of the Cathedral of Orvieto.

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Home-Museum (Casa-Museo) Pietro Moschini in Tuscania collects work of arts made by Pietro Moschini, a sculptor born into farming and lived in Tuscania (1923-2011).

His home-laboratory has been transformed into a museum full of totems, masks, reliefs with animals, carved sticks and dozens of characters derived from wood and stone.
 

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