Altitude 428 m (1,400 feet). 6,700 inhabitants
Between the
Aniene River and its tributary Fosso of Empiglione
Documented
by the tenth century as Castrum S. Angeli
It got its
current name after Margaret of Austria, the daughter of Charles V, lived here
in the sixteenth century
Churches of
S. SEBASTIANO (St. Sebastian) with frescoes attributed to the school of the Zuccari brothers and S. MICHELE (St.
Michael) 1775, above the previous church founded in the fifteenth century, with
works by Luigi Agricola (about 1750/after 1801)
Castello
Orsini
Orsini
Castle
Built
shortly before the year 1000
Rebuilt in
1308 for Riccardo and Poncello Orsini after being destroyed by the inhabitants
of Tivoli in 1123
Renovated
in the sixteenth century for Cardinal Ippolito de’ Medici and later for Margaret
of Austria
From 1635 until
1830 it belonged to the Marquises Pallavicino of Busseto
In 1935 it
was acquired by the municipality
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