Greccio, Italy Editorial Image

Greccio is an old hilltown and comune of the province of Rieti in the Italian region of Lazio, overhanging the Rieti valley on a spur of the Monti Sabini, a sub-range of the Apennines, about 16 kilometres 10 miles by road northwest of Rieti, the nearest large town. The village is surrounded by an oak forests. Trails lead through the forest to the summit of Mount Lacerone, 1,204 metres 3,950 ft above sea level. Here St. Francis of Assisi, would retire in prayer and meditation in a hut protected by two hornbeam plants. In this same place, in 1792, by popular demand, it was built a memorial chapel dedicated to him, `the chapeln