Altitude 185 m (610 feet). 17,000 inhabitants
The origin
of the name is uncertain: maybe Anguillara
derives from the Villa Angularia which
was built for the noble Roman lady Rutilia Polla on a rocky corner of the coast
and Sabazia (added in the nineteenth
century) derives from the Latin name of the lake, Sabatinus
It used to
be a fief of the Anguillara family who lost it in 1488 when it passed to the
Orsini family
The
entrance to the village is through a SIXTEENTH CENTURY DOOR about 5 m (16 feet)
thick
Orsini
Castle
Fifteenth
century. It includes the MUSEO STORICO DELLA CIVILTÀ CONTADINA E DELLA CULTURA
POPOLARE (historical museum of rural and popular culture) "Augusto
Montori" opened in 1992:
Three rooms
with hundreds of tools for agriculture, herding, fishing and domestic objects
from the early 1900s
Baronial
Palace
First half
of the sixteenth century, formerly Palazzo
Orsini, now Town Hall
"Frescoes"
dating back to the years 1535/49 including a rare representation of Naples
before it was enlarged and perhaps the only representation of the "Battle
of the Schooner" that led to the conquest of Tunis in which the commissioner
of the painting, Gentil Virginio Orsini, fought alongside Carlo V
Collegiata
dell’Assunta
Collegiate
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Eighteenth
century. At the end of the right nave "Virgin Mary of the Large Fortress"
fourteenth century and repainted in later periods
MAIN ALTAR
"Assumption of Mary" by Girolamo Muziano (1532/92)
Neolithic
Village
In
"The Marmot" district in the nineties the oldest Neolithic village
(introduction of agriculture, use of clay and ceramics) in Europe (5750/5260
BC) was found on the bottom of the lake
This
village is about 1,000 years older than any other Neolithic village ever found
Even a
canoe was found dating back to nearly 8,000 years ago, now on display at the Pigorini Museum in Rome
Chiesa
di S. Francesco
Church
of St. Francis
Outside
Anguillara, near the train station
Fifteenth
century. Frescoes dating back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including
a "Madonna and Child with Two Angels"
Plant
of the Acqua Claudia
Outside
Anguillara
Mediomineral
water indicated for gastrointestinal and metabolic diseases
Nearby
there are remains of Roman buildings of the imperial period, including a grand ROMAN
VILLA of the second half of the first century BC. The façade of the villa was a
broad semicircular exedra decorated with fountains
“Muracci”
or Walls of St. Stephen
On the way
to the Crocicchie train station
Grandiose
ruins of a Roman Villa with brick structures
of the second century BC adapted in the eighth century, or even before, as the
church and convent of St. Stephen, later suppressed by Pius V Ghislieri
(1566/72)
Air
Force Museum of Vigna di Valle
Opened in
1977
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