Altitude 451 m (1,480 feet). 8,370 inhabitants
Known as
the "City of Orchids"
Mentioned
in the sources since 1078 as Castrum
Montis Portii maybe because the ancient Portia family had a villa here
It was
dominion of the Annibaldi family, after 1581 of the Altemps family and in 1613 it
became dominion of the Cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli (1577/1633) who commissioned
the construction of the PALAZZO BORGHESE
In the
center of town there are the MUSEO DELLA CITTÀ (Museum of the City) in four
rooms in the seventeenth-century sector of the cathedral and the MUSEO DIFFUSO
DEL VINO (Museum of Wine) in three rooms in three different buildings of the
historical center
S.
Gregorio Magno
St.
Gregory the Great
1580 for Gregory
XIII Boncompagni (1572/1585)
Renovated
in 1616 by Jan Van Santen aka Giovanni Vasanzio (1550/1621)
for Cardinal Scipione Borghese
Destroyed
in 1666 and rebuilt during the years 1666/72 by Carlo
Rainaldi (1611/91)
Stuccos by Francesco Fancelli (1624/81)
"Angels
and cherubs on the altar" by Cosimo Fancelli (1620/88)
brother of Francesco
ALTAR ON
THE RIGHT
"St.
Anthony of Padua in front of Jesus as a Child" 1674 by Ciro Ferri (1634/89)
MAIN ALTAR
"St.
Gregory intercedes with the Virgin Mary to stop the plague" 1672 by Giacinto Brandi (1621/91)
ALTAR ON
THE LEFT
"Virgin
Mary of the Rosary" 1673 by Guillaume Courtois aka
Borgognone (1628/79)
Osservatorio Astronomico del Tusculo e Museo
Didattico “Astrolab”
Astronomical
Observatory of Tusculum and Educational Museum "Astrolab"
Near Monte
Porzio Catone
It is part
of the OAR, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (Astronomical Observatory of Rome),
along with the headquarters of Monte Mario and that of Campo Imperatore
Eremo di
Camaldoli
Hermitage of
Camaldoli
In the area
known as Grotta del Ceraso
Built in 1772
by Giuseppe Tarquini who replaced a smaller
seventeenth century church
Stuccos and
reliefs with "Stories of St. Romuald" 1776 by Tommaso Righi (1727/1802)
Oil on
canvas "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" about 1610/12 by Carlo Saraceni (1579/1620) for Olimpia Aldobrandini
"The
moment represented in the canvas shows a perfect balance between the Virgin Mary
who turns Her face towards the divine event with a sweet face so typical of
Saraceni’s style, the angels with liturgical vestments under the soft shade of
palm trees, Josef thoughtful, all in a landscape partly abraded, but always of
high quality in terms of luminosity, that recalls the meditation of Camaldoli’s
community about nature as mediator towards the divine" (Maria Giulia
Aurigemma)
MAIN ALTAR
"Dream
of St. Romuald" about 1620 by Antiveduto
Grammatica (about 1572/1626)
Barco
Borghese
Ancient
huge structure, a wide quadrangular esplanade about 219 x 245 m (718 x 804
feet), decorated with a monumental fountain of tufa stone and bounded by a
continuous wall built in the Renaissance period
180 rooms
for an area of about 16,000 m² (4 acres) built as foundations around two long
and high (8 m - 26 feet) parallel corridors
Maybe it
dates back to the first century BC on an area already occupied a century before
Maybe it
was a huge foundation for a Roman villa
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