Cori (ancient Cora) is a city and ''

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'' in the

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, in the

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region of central

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History

Cora was well developed in the age of the expansion of

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(7th-6th century BC). It is recorded as being part of the

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. According to

Livy Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in ...

, in 503 BC it sought unsuccessfully to revolt against the

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, together with

Suessa Pometia Suessa Pometia ( el, ; also Pometia) was an ancient city of Latium, which had ceased to exist in historical times. Although the modern city of Pomezia is named after it, the exact location of the ancient city is unknown. It bordered on the Pomp ...

, and with the assistance of the

Aurunci The Aurunci were an Italic tribe that lived in southern Italy from around the 1st millennium BC. They were eventually defeated by Rome and subsumed into the Roman Republic during the second half of the 4th century BC. Identity Aurunci is the n ...

. By 495 BC Cora and Pometia are said by Livy to have been

Volsci The Volsci (, , ) were an Italic tribe, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. At the time they inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of Latium, bounded by the Aurunci and Samnites on the ...

an towns. Upon hearing of Volscian attempts to foment war, the Roman army marched against the Volsci, and in order to avoid war the Volsci offered three hundred children of the leading men of Cora and Suessa Pometia as hostages. War nevertheless broke out later in the year. It is unclear what happened to the hostages. Coins of Cora exist, belonging at latest to 350–250 BC. Cora became a Roman possession after the Social War (90–88 BC), maintaining some administrative and political autonomy, and before the end of the Republic it had become a . Cori suffered a steep decline in the early centuries of the

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. It was often allied with its neighbour

Velletri Velletri (; la, Velitrae; xvo, Velester) is an Italian ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Rome, approximately 40 km to the southeast of the city centre, located in the Alban Hills, in the region of Lazio, central Italy. Neighbouring comm ...

. It was a possession of the Annibaldi until 1234, when it went back to the Papal suzerainty, under which (apart from a short period under

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in 1400–10) it remained until the

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. It has been part of the province of Latina since 1934.

Climate

Cori has a

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(

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''Csa'') with mild winters and hot summers.

Cori DOC

The hilly region of Cori is permitted to produce both red and white

Italian DOC wine The following four classifications of wine constitute the Italian system of labelling and legally protecting Italian wine: * ''Denominazione di origine'' (DO, rarely used; ; English: “designation of origin”), * ''Indicazione geografica tipi ...

, with the region producing more white wines. Grapes are limited to a harvest yield of 16 tonnes/ha with finished white wines needing a minimum

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of 11% and finished reds needing 11.5%. The white wines are a blend of up to 70%

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, up to 40% Trebbiano and up to 30%

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and

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. The reds are composed of 40-60%

Montepulciano Montepulciano () is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and ''comune'' in the Italian province of Siena in southern Tuscany. It sits high on a limestone ridge, east of Pienza, southeast of Siena, southeast of Florence, and north of Rome b ...

and 20-40%

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, 10-30% Cesanese.

Main sights

*The Temple of

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, early 1st century BC. It is a national monument of Italy. *Sanctuary of ''Madonna del Soccorso''. *''Santa Maria della Pietà'', originally in Romanesque style, rebuilt in the 17th century *Church of St. Francis (1521–26). *Church of ''Santa Oliva'', built in 1467–85 over a Roman temple dedicated to Janus. In the apse is a fresco of

Pinturicchio Pinturicchio, or Pintoricchio (, ; born Bernardino di Betto; 1454–1513), also known as Benetto di Biagio or Sordicchio, was an Italian painter during the Renaissance. He acquired his nickname (meaning "little painter") because of his sma ...

's school. Annexed is a cloister from 1480. Nearby are the remains of the Temple of Castor and Pollux (a 1st-century BC restoration of the 5th-century BC sanctuary). * Polygonal walls *''Ponte della Catena'' ("Chain Bridge"), of Roman origin. *Oratory of ''SS. Annunziata'', with frescos. *Church of St. John the Baptist (16th century).

Cultural Events

Each year, international folk dance groups perform in Cori as part of the Latium World Folkloric Festival, a CIOFF event.

International relations

Cori is twinned with: *

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, Greece *

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, Poland

References

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