Vitorchiano

This town is an important center of the Catholic printing house that among other things produces tickets (baptism, first communion) and booklets (mass orders). The Trappist Sisters present in the municipality are custodians of this occupation, who for over a century have been concerned with the graphic arts of the Catholic religion in Italy.
Vitorchiano is located at the foot of the Cimini mountains, stretching out towards the verdant Vezza valley. The ancient village, known for the activities related to the extraction and processing of peperino, lies on a bench, fractured into huge boulders, of this stone, with steep slopes overlooking two ditches that flow to form the Rio Acqua Fredda, a tributary of the Vezza.
In Vitorchiano there is a moai statue. It was sculpted in 1990 by eleven indigenous people of Easter Island, invited by the RAI program Alla ricerca dell’Arca, to carry out a cultural “twinning” program. As the original Moai of Easter Island were deteriorating, state television worked to find a volcanic stone similar to that of the quarries of Easter Island in order to build a new one. He found it right here: a huge block of peperino weighing thirty tons. It was then carved with manual axes and sharp stones.