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  2. Italy in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The history of Italy in the Middle Ages can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Late antiquity in Italy lingered on into the 7th century under the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty, the Byzantine Papacy until the mid 8th century.

  3. Civitavecchia - Wikipedia

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    Civitavecchia. Civitavecchia (Italian: [ˌtʃivitaˈvɛkkja], meaning "ancient town") is a city and major sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea 60 kilometres (37 miles) west-northwest of Rome. Its legal status is a comune (municipality) of Rome, Lazio. The harbour is formed by two piers and a breakwater on which stands a lighthouse.

  4. Hilltowns in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Hilltowns in Italy. Ariano Irpino, a hilltown lying astride Apennines at 2,585 feet (788 m) elevation. Italian hilltop settlements were built upon hills for defensive purposes, surrounded by thick defensive walls, steep embankments, or cliffs which provided natural defenses for their earliest inhabitants. In the Middle Ages, earthworks and ...

  5. Pacentro - Wikipedia

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    Pacentro is a comune of 1,279 inhabitants of the province of L'Aquila in Abruzzo, Italy.It is a well-preserved historic medieval village located in central Italy, several kilometers from the City of Sulmona about 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Rome.

  6. Viterbo - Wikipedia

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    Viterbo (Italian: [viˈtɛrbo] ⓘ; 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. It is approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of GRA ...

  7. Bracciano - Wikipedia

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    Bracciano[4] is a small town in the Italian region of Lazio, 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of Rome. The town is famous for its volcanic lake (Lago di Bracciano or "Sabatino", the eighth largest lake in Italy) and for a particularly well-preserved medieval castle Castello Orsini-Odescalchi. The lake is widely used for sailing and is popular ...

  8. Garden of Ninfa - Wikipedia

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    The castle and a river. The Garden of Ninfa is a garden in the territory of Cisterna di Latina, in the province of Latina, central Italy. The park has an area of 105 hectares (260 acres), and is an Italian natural monument. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The landscape garden within the park comprises 8 hectares (20 acres) and contains medieval ruins, several oaks ...

  9. San Gimignano - Wikipedia

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    San Gimignano (Italian pronunciation: [san dʒimiɲˈɲaːno]; named after St. Geminianus) is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of its tower houses, [3 ...

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