Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Viterbo (Italian: ⓘ; Viterbese: Veterbe; Medieval Latin: Viterbium) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Lazio region of Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo. It conquered and absorbed the neighboring town of Ferento (see Ferentium ) in its early history.
Location of Lazio within Italy Provinces of ... 121 in the Metropolitan Metropolitan City of Rome Capital; 60 in the Province of Viterbo ... Viterbo: 5,655 Acuto ...
Corchiano is a town and comune in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, central Italy. It was an ancient settlement of the Faliscans and, in the Renaissance and later, a fief of the Farnese family. The local produce is hazelnuts and wine. Annual sagre include a live re-enactment of the birth of Jesus performed during Advent.
Ronciglione (Italian pronunciation: [rontʃiʎˈʎoːne]; locally Ronció) is a comune in the province of Viterbo, in the Italian region of Latium, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Viterbo. The city is located in the Cimini mountains, over two tuff scarps, on the southeastern slope of the former volcano crater now housing Lake Vico .
Grotte di Castro is a municipality (Italian: comune) in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region of Latium, located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of Rome and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) northwest of Viterbo.
In Cesare Pinzi's 1911 guide to the principal monuments of Viterbo, he states a timeline: [1] Prior to 11th century: walls or moats, if present, enclosed only the city center around the Duomo; 1095: Wall erected from Porta Fiorita to Porta di San Sisto and San Matteo dell'Abbate (now Verità), and the hill of Santa Rosa, to the Porta di Sonza.
Latera is a small town and comune in the Province of Viterbo, Lazio, central Italy.Stephen Owen considers it to be an "archetypal" Italian hill town.[3]Situated near Bolsena Lake and Mezzano Lake, is important for volcanic underground activity near the town centre.
The area of the province of Viterbo contained a number of Etruscan cities including Tuscania, Vetralla, Tarquinia, and Viterbo. [6] Viterbo was conquered by the Roman Republic in 310 BCE; despite this, minimal information is known of the city until it was utilised in 773 CE by Desiderius, King of the Lombards, as a base against the Holy Roman ...