Altitude 285 m (930 feet). 9,500 inhabitants
The origins
of the town date back to the ninth century
Agricultural
center since the Middle Ages (grapes and artichokes) and food manufacturing
industries
The town
has a modern section, a medieval center with towers and portals and a section
built in the seventeenth century
In late
April here the Festival of Artichokes and of the Bacchanal is held
Parrocchiale di S. Giovanni
Parish of St. John
1515 over
an older church with materials from another early Christian church destroyed
nearby
Modified in
1659 and in the nineteenth century
CEILING
1971 with
some ancient sections
4th
CHAPEL ON THE RIGHT
Altar
frontal of the Renaissance period
5th
CHAPEL ON THE RIGHT
Wooden
statue of "Our Lady of the Angels" of the seventeenth century
Frescoes
"Presentation in the Temple" and "Birth of Mary" by Federico Zuccari (about 1542/1609) and Taddeo Zuccari (1529/66)
PRESBYTERY
Frescoes
"Stories of St. John" by the Zuccaris
and polychrome wooden ceiling 1582 maybe by Jacopo Del
Duca (about 1520/1604)
TO THE LEFT
OF PRESBYTERY
"Altar
frontal" with five bas-reliefs from Renaissance baptismal fonts and “Aedicula”
with coat of arms of the Orsini family
4th
and 3rd CHAPEL ON THE LEFT
Early Romanesque
altar frontals (eighth and ninth centuries)
AT THE END
OF THE LEFT NAVE
Next to the
entrance "St. John Beheaded" maybe by Giulio Pippi aka Giulio Romano (1499/1546)
Santuario della Madonna del Sorbo
Sanctuary of the Madonna del Sorbo
5 km (3.1
miles) southeast of Campagnano di Roma
Known since
996. Built on a rocky outcrop
The
monastery is in ruins. The church was restored in the seventeenth century for Cardinal
Flavio Chigi and again recently
Canvas on
board of the eleventh century
Valle di Baccano
Baccano Valley
5 km (3.1 miles) southwest of Campagnano di
Roma
One of the
biggest basins that were formerly craters in the volcanic district of the Monti Sabatini
The valley
was originally filled up for almost 13 square kilometers (3200 acres) by a lake
partially drained in 1838 by the Chigi family and completely drained (it was
still 8 km² - 2000 acres) only in 1920
Notorious
for malaria and for the bandits who used to frequently rob the house with stables
to change horses on the Via Cassia which had been built on the site of the
Roman village Baccanae
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