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Leonessa
:''Leonessa is also the name of a ''frazione'' of Bassano Romano.'' Leonessa is a town and '' comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Province of Rieti in the Lazio region of central Italy. Its population in 2008 was around 2,700. Situated in a small plain at the foot of Mt. Terminillo, one of the highest mountains of the Apennine range, in the winter Leonessa is known mostly as a low-key staging center for the ski slopes of the Terminillo, and in the summer as a weekend vacation town frequented for the most part by Romans with local roots. Historically, the town is known mostly as the birthplace of St. Giuseppe di Leonessa. Until 1927 it was part of the province of L'Aquila. The town suffered one of the worst German reprisals during World War II when the Wehrmacht and the SS killed 51 inhabitants in early April 1944. A monument dedicated to the dead was erected in 1959. Typical food production include the local variety of potato, known as ''patata di Leonessa''. Leonessa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonessa
:''Leonessa is also the name of a ''frazione'' of Bassano Romano.'' Leonessa is a town and '' comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Province of Rieti in the Lazio region of central Italy. Its population in 2008 was around 2,700. Situated in a small plain at the foot of Mt. Terminillo, one of the highest mountains of the Apennine range, in the winter Leonessa is known mostly as a low-key staging center for the ski slopes of the Terminillo, and in the summer as a weekend vacation town frequented for the most part by Romans with local roots. Historically, the town is known mostly as the birthplace of St. Giuseppe di Leonessa. Until 1927 it was part of the province of L'Aquila. The town suffered one of the worst German reprisals during World War II when the Wehrmacht and the SS killed 51 inhabitants in early April 1944. A monument dedicated to the dead was erected in 1959. Typical food production include the local variety of potato, known as ''patata di Leonessa''. Leonessa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madonna Di Loreto, Leonessa
Madonna di Loreto (Our Lady of Loreto) is a Roman Catholic church and convent located on Via Francesco Crispi just outside of the core of the town of Leonessa, province of Rieti, region of Lazio, central Italy. History In 1520, the nobleman Cristoforo Gizzi donated to the Capitolo Lateranense some lands and property for them to build a church dedicated to Santa Maria di Loreto. In 1534, the heirs of Cristoforo donated the church to the Capuchin order, and under the local patronage of Matteo Silvestri, who had joined the order of friars, they opened a hospital for poor and indigent. For decades there was a debate about building a convent at the site. In 1571, the priors of the town had the monks donate the church to the commune. In 1612 the abbot of the convent at Amatrice, sent to this convent some relics of St Joseph of Leonessa, including his heart, a vial of his blood, clothes, and other sundry property of the saint. These were housed in an armory in the Sacristy, guarded by thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria Del Popolo, Leonessa
Santa Maria del Popolo (Saint Mary of the People) is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Corso di San Giuseppe between via Sbarra and via Recta in the town of Leonessa, province of Rieti, region of Lazio, central Italy. History The first documentation of the church is from 1334. Once called Chiesa del Sesto di Croce, as it was enlarged it became known as the parish church of the town, and from the 15th-century forward it was known as Santa Maria del Popolo or ''dei Preti''. It became a collegiate church In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons: a non-monastic or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by ... in the 17th-century. The facade is made of asymmetric stone bricks, and has a flat sail-like bell-feature asymmetrically placed on the roof. Above the portal is a high oculus. The portal has a rounded, slightly peake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Pietro, Leonessa
San Pietro is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church in the center of the town of Leonessa, province of Rieti, region of Lazio, central Italy. History The church was once part of an Augustinian convent. The present church was built atop an older church structure (Santa Maria delle Grazie) which became the crypt. The church is now property of the Fondo Edifici Culto (FEC). Documents cite construction starting by 1344 but other do not cite completion until the 15th century. It is likely the plague in 1363 slowed construction. In 1422, in the attached convent, the Augustinian order of the valley of Spoleto held a general chapter. In 1609, the local clergy, and not the Augustinians, gained the right to direct funeral services in the atrium of the church. During the Napoleonic era, the government of Murat expropriated the convent for use by the government and military. In 1868, the Italian government granted the sites administration to the . In the subsequent years it underwent significan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terminillo
Monte Terminillo is a massif in the Monti Reatini, part of the Abruzzi Apennine range in central Italy. It is located some 20 km from Rieti and 100 km from Rome and has a highest altitude of . It is a typical Apennine massif, both for its morphology, articulated but not exceedingly sharp, and for the fauna and vegetation. Its slopes are separated by the neighbouring smaller massifs by deep valleys, including the Valle Leonina, leading to Leonessa, and the Ravara and Capo Scura valleys leading to that of the Velino River. On the opposite sides are the Valle dell'Inferno ("Hell's Valley") and Valle degli Angeli ("Angels' Valley") leading to Rieti's plain and the mounts of Cantalice. The Terminillo is an active ski resort. See also *Sabena Flight 503 The crash of Sabena Flight 503 was an accident involving a Douglas DC-6 of the Belgium, Belgian airline company Sabena which crashed into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy, 100 km north east of Rome on 13 Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonesse
Gonesse () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. The commune lies immediately north of Le Bourget Airport, and it is six kilometres (four miles) south-west of Charles de Gaulle International Airport. History Since Carolingian times, cereals have been grown in Gonesse. In the period of the 12th through to the 16th centuries, the cultivation of grain was supplemented by drapery, in particular the production of the coarse woollen material of the ''gaunace''.Histoire de Gonesse – Quelques repères historiques . ''Ville-gonesse.fr'', retrieved July 11, 2011 The commune was an important producer of |
Potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile. The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated by Native Americans independently in multiple locations,University of Wisconsin-Madison, ''Finding rewrites the evolutionary history of the origin of potatoes'' (2005/ref> but later genetic studies traced a single origin, in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia. Potatoes were domesticated there approximately 7,000–10,000 years ago, from a species in the '' Solanum brevicaule'' complex. Lay summary: In the Andes region of South America, where the species is indigenous, some close relatives of the potato are cultivated. Potatoes were introduced to Europe from the Americas by the Spanish in the second half of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazio
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Bandenbekämpfung
In German military history, ''Bandenbekämpfung'' (German; ), also Nazi security warfare (during World War II), refers to the concept and military doctrine of countering resistance or insurrection in the rear area during wartime through extreme brutality. The doctrine provided a rationale for disregarding the established laws of war and for targeting of any number of groups, from armed guerrillas to the civilian population, as "bandits" or "members of gangs". As applied by the German Empire and later by Nazi Germany, it became instrumental in the mass crimes against humanity committed by the two regimes, including the Herero and Namaqua genocide and the Holocaust. Emergence Concept and origins According to historian and television documentary producer, Christopher Hale, there are indications that the term ''Bandenbekämpfung'' may go back as far as the Thirty Years' War. Under the German Empire established by Bismarck in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War—formed as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Rieti
The Province of Rieti ( it, Provincia di Rieti) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rieti. Established in 1927, it has an area of with a total population of 157,887 people as of 2017. There are 73 ''comuni'' in the province. Geography A large part of its territory corresponds to the historical-geographical region of Sabina. Rieti is located in the north-east Lazio. It is bordered to the west, along the river Tiber by the Province of Viterbo and to the south-west by the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. It is also bordered by the regions of Umbria to the north and by Marche to the east. The province is largely mountainous with the Monti della Duchessa and the Monti del Cicolano ranges in the south with Monte Nuria and Monte Giano, the Monti Reatini range with Monte Terminillo (2217 m) in the north in part of the Abruzzese Apennines, and Monti della Laga (2458 m) to the east on the border with Abruzzo. Of particular importance are the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
