Altitude 160 m (525 feet). 6,400 inhabitants
Formerly Leprignano, town surrounded by a
territory cultivated mainly with grapes, divided into two sections, a new one and
a medieval one
Outside the
town hall there are some "Marble stones with inscriptions" found in
the vicinity
In the small
church of S. MARIA DELLE GRAZIE there is a "Madonna" painted in the
sixteenth century
S.
Michele
St.
Michael
On the main
altar "Triptych with Saviour and Sts. Peter and
Paul" by Antonio del Massaro aka Antonio da
Viterbo or Pastura (about 1450/1516)
Ancient
Capena
3 km (1.8
miles) northeast of the town in the area known as Civitucola
It was one
of three cities (the other two were Lucus
Feroniae and Sepernas) of the
Confederation of the Capenati, Italic
population akin to Latin although of Sabine origin and linked to the Etruscans
of Veii until the fourth century BC, when it was subjected to Rome
There is
only evidence of constructions on the hill, but there is a very extensive
necropolis with three sectors:
Le Saliere (Salt Mines), graves with pits of the eighth or
seventh century BC
Le Macchie (The Bushes) where the "Plate with the Elephant"
of the third century BC was found, now in the Etruscan
Museum at Villa Giulia
S. Martino (St. Martin) with tombs dating back from the
seventh to the third century BC
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