Altitude 250 m (820 feet). 7,700 inhabitants
Medieval section
elongated with the shape of a fishbone on a ridge and modern section developed towards
the Via Flaminia with some industrial plant
It was a fief
of the Colonna family who enlarged it and built the walls
It belonged
for some time to the diocese of Porto that gave it the current name
Two springs
of water are nearby: S. Antonio (St.
Anthony) and another sulphuric-irony one by the Grotta Pagana (Pagana Grotto)
Palazzo
Ducale
Ducal
Palace
Sixteenth
century, transformed in the seventeenth century with angular square towers
In a hall
frescoes of the school of the Zuccari brothers
Collegiata
di S. Maria Assunta
Collegiate
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Built on 1756
over the previous Romanesque church of which only the bell tower of the
thirteenth century still stands
"Triptych" by Antonio Aquili aka Antoniazzo Romano (about 1435-40/1508)
"Its
clients belong to the more moderate and conservative Roman society of the fifteenth
century. Antoniazzo is the representative of the kind of religiosity of people living
on the edge of the papal court, oblivious to Humanism and looking for a convergence
between classical culture and Christian thought" (Anna Cavallaro)
"Deposition"
of the Carracci school
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