Altitude 97 m (318 feet). 9,000 inhabitants
Town
mentioned in the sources for the first time in the eleventh century
It was a duchy
of the Orsini, Sforza, Ludovisi and Ottoboni families
Castle
Medieval
fortress expanded in 1493 by Nicholas III Orsini
The Duke of
Fiano, Marco Ottoboni, at the end of the seventeenth century completed the
castle as a rectangle, adding the wing facing the Capena Gate and Via Roma
In this
castle there is a harmonious intertwining of the three typical elements of architecture
for Italian castle: walls, keep and palace
S.
Stefano Nuovo
St.
Stephen New
Second half
of the fifteenth century
Restorations
in 1774
RIGHT NAVE
Two
paintings "Crucifixion" and "St. John the Baptist "of the
fourteenth century detached from the ruined church of S. Maria ad Pontem
"Sarcophagus
of Nicholas III Orsini" 1510
CHAPEL OF THE
ANNUNCIATION (formerly Orsini Chapel)
Wooden
board with "Salvator Mundi" and on the sides frescoes of “Angels”
probably by the School of Pinturicchio
MAIN ALTAR
Fresco
"Virgin Mary with Sts. John the Baptist, Stephen, Peter and Blaise" by
Antonio Del Massaro aka Antonio da Viterbo or
Pastura (about 1450/1516)
LEFT NAVE
"Sarcophagus of Pietro Gregorio
Boncompagni Ludovisi"
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