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Viterbo
Viterbo (; Central Italian, Viterbese: ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Lazio region of Italy, the Capital city, capital of the province of Viterbo. It conquered and absorbed the neighboring town of Ferento (see Ferentium) in its early history. It is approximately north of GRA (Rome) on the Via Cassia, and it is surrounded by the Monti Cimini and Monti Volsini. The historic center is surrounded by the medieval walls of Viterbo, which are still mainly intact, built during the 11th and 12th centuries. Entrance to the walled center of the city is through ancient gates. Apart from agriculture, Viterbo's main resources are pottery, peperino stone, and wood. The town is home to the Italian gold reserves, an important Academy of Fine Arts, the Tuscia University, University of Tuscia, and the Italian Army's Aviation Command headquarters and training centre. It is located in a wide thermal area, attracting many tourists from all over central Italy. History The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Rose Of Viterbo
Rose of Viterbo, Third Order of Saint Francis, TOSF (; c. 1233 – 6 March 1251), was a young woman born in Viterbo, then a contested Comune, commune of the Papal States. She spent her brief life as a recluse, and was outspoken in her support of the papacy. Otherwise leading an unremarkable life, she later became known for her mysticism, mystical gifts of prophecy and having miraculous powers. She is honoured as a Canonization, saint by the Catholic Church. Life The chronology of her life remains uncertain, as the acts of her canonization, the chief historical sources, record no dates. Most scholars agree she was probably born around the year 1233. Born of poor and pious parents, even as a child, Rose had a great desire to pray and to aid the poor. She prayed much for the conversion of sinners. Rose was not yet 10 years old when the Blessed Virgin Mary is said to have instructed her to take the habit of the Third Order of St. Francis and to preach penance in Viterbo, at that tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Viterbo
The province of Viterbo () is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Lazio region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Viterbo. Geography Viterbo is the most northerly of the provinces of Lazio. It is bordered to the south by the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital and to the south-east by the province of Rieti. It is also bordered by the regions of Tuscany (province of Grosseto) to the north and by Umbria (province of Terni) to the east. The Tyrrhenian Sea is located to the west. The territory falls in and makes up the largest part of the historical region of Tuscia, with the name sometimes being used synonymously with that of the province. As of 2017, the province has a total population of 318,163 inhabitants over an area of , giving it a population density of 89.05 inhabitants per square kilometre. The provincial president is Marcello Meroi and the province contains 60 (municipalities). The territory of the Province of Viterbo can be roughly divided into four geographical area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palace Of The Popes In Viterbo
Palazzo dei Papi is a palace in Viterbo, region of Lazio, Italy. It is considered to be one of the most important monuments in the city, situated alongside the Duomo di Viterbo (Viterbo Cathedral). The Curia (Roman Catholic Church), Papal Curia was moved to Viterbo in 1257 by Pope Alexander IV, Alexander IV, due to the hostility of the History of Rome#Rome in the Middle Ages, Roman commune and constant urban violence: the former bishop's palace of Viterbo was enlarged to provide the Popes with an adequate residence. The construction, commissioned by the ''Capitano del popolo'' ("Captain of the People") Raniero Gatti, provided a great audience hall communicating with a loggia raised on a barrel vault above the city street. It was completed probably around 1266. image:Viterbo, palazzo e loggia dei papi, 02.jpg, left, A detail of the Loggia of the Papal Palace of Viterbo. The massive façade, facing the central piazza San Lorenzo which is dominated by the Duomo, is approached by a wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiara Frontini
Chiara Frontini (born 24 March 1989) is an Italian politician, Mayor of Viterbo since 2022 and the first woman to hold the office. Biography She made her debut in politics in Viterbo in 2012, when she was appointed councilor for innovation, relations with European institutions, employment policies, energy policies and relations with the University, in the centre-right junta chaired by the Mayor of Viterbo Giulio Marini. In 2013 Frontini ran for the office of Mayor of Viterbo representing the "Viterbo Venti Venti" civic list. She got 4.69% of the votes, managing to win a seat on the city council. In the subsequent elections of 2018 she ran again for office and enters the ballot against Giovanni Arena, candidate of Forza Italia, who nevertheless manages to get the better of winning with 51.09% of the votes and a difference of only 530 votes. Mayor of Viterbo On the occasion of the local elections of 2022, Frontini announced her third candidacy for mayor, once again for a coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walls Of Viterbo
The Walls of Viterbo, in Viterbo, Italy, developed over centuries, but much of these circumscribing, defensive medieval structures still exists, and their entrance gates, often modernized, still limit the access at certain sites. History While it is expected that the Etruscan architecture, Ancient Etruscan or Roman town at this site also had defensive walls, this has not been conclusively determined. Some stone blocks near the Palazzo Farnese, Viterbo, Palazzo Farnese near the town center are assigned to an ancient construction, perhaps a wall. The main walls seen now were erected during the turbulent 11th and 13th centuries to encompass three hills, provided room for urban expansion. The era of its construction was beset by both internicine Guelphs and Ghibellines warfare, as well as foreign army sieges. In Cesare Pinzi's 1911 guide to the principal monuments of Viterbo, he states a timeline: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuscia University
University of Tuscia (, UNITUS) is a university located in the city of Viterbo, Italy. Founded in 1979, the University comprises 6 academic departments. Much of the campus occupies the former monastic complex of Santa Maria in Gradi, Viterbo, Santa Maria in Gradi. The reference in the University's name to "Tuscia", evokes the term used for a historical region of Italy, centered in recent times upon the city of Viterbo, but which once referred to the far wider territories that in ancient times were under Etruscan civilization, Etruscan influence, and in post-antiquity included what is now the whole region of Tuscany, a great part of Umbria and the northern parts of Lazio. The University's core specialist subject areas reflect in considerable part the current character of the territory which surrounds it. The University conducts its activity in a variety of locations within and around the city, which has a rich and complex history, that among other features bears the stamp of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagnaia, Viterbo
Bagnaia is a village in Lazio, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Viterbo, province of Viterbo. Former municipality, it was annexed to the ''comune'' of Viterbo in 1928. Bagnaia is about 7 km from Viterbo and 100 km from Rome. The "Fuoco di Sant Antonio" is a large bonfire erected in the town center and, with much merryment, lit on the evening of each 16th of January in honor of the St Anthony. Main sights *''San Giovanni Battista'', parish church built in the late 16th century, it was entirely restructured in 1753 by cardinal Federico Marcello Lante *''Sant'Antonio Abate'' *Castle of Bagnaia *Villa Lante Villa Lante is a Mannerism, Mannerist garden of surprise in Bagnaia, Viterbo, Bagnaia, Viterbo, central Italy, attributed to Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola. Villa Lante did not become well known until it passed to Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rov ..., built between 1566 and 1588 and commissioned by cardinal Giovanni Francesco Gambara Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazio
Lazio ( , ; ) or Latium ( , ; from Latium, the original Latin name, ) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy, administrative regions of Italy. Situated in the Central Italy, central peninsular section of the country, it has 5,714,882 inhabitants and a GDP of more than €212 billion per year, making it the country's second most populated region and second largest regional economy after Lombardy. The capital of Lazio is Rome, which is the capital city of Italy. Lazio was the home of the Etruscan civilization, then stood at the center of the Roman Republic, of the Roman Empire, of the Papal States, of the Kingdom of Italy and of the Italian Republic. Lazio boasts a rich cultural heritage. Great artists and historical figures lived and worked in Rome, particularly during the Italian Renaissance period. In remote antiquity, Lazio (''Latium'') included only a limited part of the current region, between the lower course of the Tiber, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Monti Sabini and the Pontine M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Martino Al Cimino
San Martino al Cimino is a hamlet located a few kilometers south of Viterbo, at the top of Mount Cimino, in the Province of Viterbo within Lazio, Italy. Until 1928, it functioned as a separate town, but today, administratively, it is now a neighborhood or frazione of Viterbo. The oval central portion of the hamlet, sheltered behind town walls and punctured by two gates, arose around a former 13th-century Cistercian monastery, acquired circa 1647 by Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj (1591-1657), sister in law of Pope Innocent X Pamphili, who became highly influential during this pope's reign. Her palace is now referred to as the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj (not to be confused with the similarly named palace in Rome). In 1899 the palace with a new facade by Enrico Calandrelli, was converted into an orphanage for abandoned infants: ''Ospizio Umberto I per gli Esposti''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferentium
Ferentium was a town of ancient Etruria, situated near the modern city of Viterbo in the northern part of the Roman province of Latium, now in modern Lazio. The city was also known as ''Ferentinum'', ''Ferentum'' or ''Ferentia'', and should not be confused with ancient ''Ferentinum'' (now Ferentino), which is in southern Lazio. History Ferentium had an Etruscan predecessor at modern Acquarossa, as shown by the presence of a necropolis. In the Roman period, the city was a municipium of the Stellatina tribe and part of the seventh regio of the province of Italia. Several famous families came from the city, including that of the Roman emperor Otho and Flavia Domitilla, the wife of the emperor Vespasian. Either she or her identically named daughter were worshipped as ''diva Domitilla''. Around 400 AD. diocese Ferentium was established. After 700 AD, the diocese was suppressed. In 1172 Ferentium was conquered, sacked, and depopulated by Viterbo, and the territory incorporated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Army
The Italian Army ( []) is the Army, land force branch of the Italian Armed Forces. The army's history dates back to the Italian unification in the 1850s and 1860s. The army fought in colonial engagements in China and Italo-Turkish War, Libya. It fought in Northern Italy against the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I, Abyssinia before World War II and in World War II in Albania, Balkans, North Africa, the Soviet Union, and Italy itself. During the Cold War, the army prepared itself to defend against a Warsaw Pact invasion from the east. Since the end of the Cold War, the army has seen extensive peacekeeping service and combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. Its best-known combat vehicles are the Dardo IFV, Dardo infantry fighting vehicle, the Centauro (Tank destroyer), Centauro tank destroyer and the Ariete tank and among its aircraft the Agusta A129 Mangusta, Mangusta attack helicopter, recently deployed in UN missions. The headquarters of the Army General Staff are located in Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
