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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 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.
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 ...
The Palazzo del Podesta, also known as Palazzo del Governatore, is a 13th-century civic palace located in Piazza del Plebiscito in central Viterbo, region of Lazio, Italy. It is attached and mainly accessible through the arch over Via Filippo Ascenzi connecting it to the larger Palazzo della Commune or Comunale .
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.
Acquapendente was the first stop in Italy in the travels of Saint Roch in the early 14th century; the saint supposedly spent several days in the hospital there curing plague victims. [5] The city was later part of the March of Tuscany and, from the end of the 14th century and beginning of the 15th, it was part of the commune (later Republic) of ...