Sigillo is a ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

'' (municipality) in the

province of Perugia The Province of Perugia ( it, Provincia di Perugia) is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Perugia. The province covered al ...

in the

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region

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, located about 35 km northeast of

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and pa ...

. Sigillo borders the following municipalities:

Costacciaro Costacciaro is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 40 km northeast of Perugia. It is a medieval burgh, which, after the rule of Perugia and Gubbio, became part of the Papal States ...

Fabriano Fabriano is a town and ''comune'' of Ancona province in the Italian region of the Marche, at above sea level. It lies in the Esino valley upstream and southwest of Jesi; and east-northeast of Fossato di Vico and east of Gubbio (both in Umb ...

Fossato di Vico Fossato di Vico is a town and ''comune'' of Umbria in the province of Perugia in Italy, at 581 m above sea‑level on the middle slopes of Mount Mutali. It lies just off the SS 3 highway, the successor to the ancient Roman Via Flaminia, b ...

Gubbio Gubbio () is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennines. History The city's origins are very ancient. ...

History

Before the

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conquest, the territory of Sigillo was inhabited by the ''Suillates'', an

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tribe; later it was a Roman municipality as ''Suillum'' and was a stage on the Via Flaminia. In 410 it was destroyed by the Goths of Alaric I during his march to

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. Later it was part of the Lombard Duchy of Spoleto and of the

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of Nocera, which, after the

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conquest in the late 8th century, became the county of Nocera. In 1230 Emperor Frederick II destroyed it to punish its

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stance. The commune of

rebuilt Sigillo in 1274 with a large castle. Subsequently the center was disputed between the Baglioni, Boldrino, Azzo and

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families, as well as by the condottiero

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. In 1500 it was sacked by Cesare Borgia and, in the mid-16th century, became part of the

Papal States The Papal States ( ; it, Stato Pontificio, ), officially the State of the Church ( it, Stato della Chiesa, ; la, Status Ecclesiasticus;), were a series of territories in the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the pope fro ...

Main sights

*Romanesque-Gothic church of ''Santa Maria di Scirca'', with 15th-century frescoes by Matteo di Gualdo *Church of St. Anne, on the ancient Via Flaminia. *Remains of the medieval ''Rocca'' ("Castle"), now an Augustinian convent. *Roman bridges

References

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