abstract:Poggio Mirteto is a comune (municipality)in Sabina in the province of Rieti (formerly in the province of Perugia) in the Italian region Latium, about 45 km northeast of Rome and about 20 km southwest of Rieti, situated on a height by the River Tevere, in a fertile region, where pot-herbs, cereals, grapes and pastures are cultivated, and where ancient ruins of villas and of aqueducts are numerous; the villa called "Bagni di Lucilla" and the villa of Terentius Varro was in this neighbourhood.