Saturday, November 7, 2020

CAMPAGNANO DI ROMA

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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