Roccagiovine (
Romanesco: ) 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 ...
'' (municipality) in the
Metropolitan City of Rome
Metropolitan City of Rome Capital ( it, Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale) is an area of local government at the level of metropolitan city in the Lazio region of the Republic of Italy. It comprises the territory of the city of Rome and 120 ...
in the
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
region
Latium
Latium ( , ; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
Definition
Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil ( Old Latium) on ...
, located about northeast of
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus ( legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
. It is included in the Natural Park of the
Monti Lucretili.
The ancient town was known by the Romans as ''Fanum Vacunae''.
[Fanum vacunae, Giovanni Pascoli, 1911]
A Roman inscription found here enabled identification of
Horace's Villa nearby.
Twin towns
*
Dampierre-lès-Conflans
Dampierre-lès-Conflans is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Twin towns
* Roccagiovine, Italy
See also
*Communes of the Haute-Saône department
The following is a list of t ...
, France
References
Cities and towns in Lazio
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