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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.
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 ...
Teatro Unione or Teatro dell'Unione is the main theater stage in Viterbo, Italy, for live dramatic and musical performances.Located at the eastern edge of historic Viterbo, on piazza Giuseppe Verdi, diagonally across from the Biblioteca Comunale degli Ardenti (Civic Library) which partly occupies the former Palazzo Santoro.
The following is a list of the 60 municipalities of the Province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. [1] List. ISTAT Code Comune Population (2005) 056001 Acquapendente: 5,771 ...
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.
It forms part of the network of the Lazio regional railways (Italian: ferrovie regionali del Lazio), which is operated by Trenitalia, and converges on the city of Rome, Italy. [1] The route operates over the infrastructure of the Rome–Capranica–Viterbo railway. Within the territory of the comune of Rome, it plays the role of a commuter ...
A church by the name of San Niccolò del Piano or San Nicola del Scolare is documented by 12th-century, in what would become the Piano Scarano district of Viterbo. [1] The district was soon enclosed by city walls. The parish church and convent was a dependancy of the Benedictine order Abbey of Farfa, with the monks housed at Santa Maria della ...
Italy portal Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. ... Pages in category "Viterbo" The following 12 pages are in this ...