Where was Horace’s Sabine farm located?

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Horace Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Horace’s Sabine farm was located in the Sabine hills, a site identified with considerable probability as being near Licenza, approximately 22 miles (35 kilometres) northeast of Rome. He received the property from his patron, Maecenas, in the mid-30s BCE, and it remained a place of great pleasure for the poet throughout his life.1