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Arpino
We do not know the exact age of the founding of Arpino, although archaeological findings demonstrate the origins Volscians people of uncertain origin to which they relate the story of the rostra of the forum (prey after the Roman naval battle off the coast of Anzio) and Coriolanus. Local traditions, and a series of inscriptions still visible, being the original foundation of the city to the god Saturn or the Pelasgians, like the other cities of southern Lazio surrounded by impressive megalithic walls and these cities Saturnia. Goal and was the scene of clashes between the Romans and Samnites, until it was conquered by the first two years after he obtained Roman citizenship and suffrage became sine prefecture. In 188 BC finally obtained the Roman citizenship. The Acropolis of Arpino is an archaeological site near the town of Arpino. The civitas vetus the city is one of the best preserved city walls built in polygonal in pre-Roman times. Of particular significance is the presence of a pointed arch only survivor of its kind in the entire Mediterranean area.

Isola del Liri

The name comes from the Isola del Liri site in which it has developed the town, an island formed by the river Liri. The first recorded name of the city was Insula Filiorum Petri, ie Island of the children of Peter, steward of Sora. In fact in a document dating back to 1004 there was a town in the county named Sora Hill Island. In common usage in cartography and was always isolated, sometimes with the specification of Sora, because it is closely linked with Castelliri (then Castelluccio) close to Sora, which followed the fortunes until the age of Napoleon. Following unification in 1863 became the Island Island at Sora and then get its present name in 1869. The Great Falls is formed by the left arm of the river, and she is about 27 meters to be one of the few waterfalls in the heart of a city. The Waterfall Valcatoio, formed by the right arm of the river, is less spectacular than the first because its waters are regimented and captured to power an electricity plant. His vertical jump is not perfect, but it follows a slope of about 160 meters along a gradient of about 27 meters.


Casamari Abbey
Casamari Abbey is one of the most important monasteries of Cistercian Gothic architecture. It was built in 1203 and consecrated in 1217. It is located near the town of Veroli in the province of Frosinone. It was built on the ruins of a Roman town called Cereatae, because dedicated to the goddess Ceres. Casamari The name derives from Latin and means "House of Mario", the home of Gaius Marius, a famous commander, consul seven times and opponent of Sulla in the civil war of 88 BC, also mentioned in the name of the road along which rises' Abbey (which connects with Sora Frosinone): Maria Street. With the decline of the Roman Empire and the subsequent barbarian invasions Cereatae Marii-House suffered the same fate of the decay of Rome until the eleventh century monks settled in the place and founded the abbey. The "Chronicle of Paper"or "Chartarium Casamariense" written by Gian Giacomo de monaco casamariense Uvis Trustee on behalf of the abbot gives the news about the foundation of stessa.Secondo the report, the monks of the nearby Veroli decided to meet in a monastery, and chose Cereatae Marii-house built on the remains of a temple of Mars. Some of them (Frank, John, Bear and Azo) she went into the monastery at Sora to take the habit of a monk. According to some historians, dates from 1005 to the erection of a church dedicated to and Sao Paulo, while the construction of the monastery dates back to 1036.

Montecassino Abbey

Founded in 529 by St. Benedict of Norcia on the site of an ancient tower and a temple dedicated to Apollo, situated 519 meters above sea level, has suffered throughout its history an alternate story of destruction, looting, and subsequent earthquakes reconstructions.Rebuilt around 717 under the impetus of Petronace of Monte Cassino, the monastery was destroyed again by the Saracens in 883, and was rebuilt by Pope Agapito II only in 949.Throughout, the abbey was a lively center of culture through its abbots, its libraries, its archives, schools and miniature writer, who transcribed and preserved many works of antiquity. Historical evidence of the highest interest of safe and validity have been collected and handed down to Monte Cassino from the first precious documents in the vernacular to the famous illuminated manuscripts Montecassino, the precious and rare incunabula. The most illustrious of his abbots was perhaps Desire - the future Pope Victor III - that at the end of the century completely rebuilt and adorned the abbey church of precious frescoes and mosaics, whose reflection you can still see today in those who the Abbot had run in Sant'Angelo in Formis. Destroyed by an earthquake in 1349 and rebuilt in 1366, the abbey became in the seventeenth century, the appearance of a typical Neapolitan Baroque monument, thanks to the decorative paintings of many artists, including Luca Giordano, Francesco Solimena, Francesco de Mura Giovanni de Matteis.In these forms had come down to us the ancient monastery before in February, during the second phase of the battle of Monte Cassino, a massive bombardment of, that you suspected erroneamenteù [1] the presence of German forces, it destroyed again. The bombardment began on the morning of February 15 and 142 heavy bombers and 114 medium bombers razed the abbey. During this were killed numerous civilians who had sought refuge inside the building, several German soldiers and even forty soldiers of the Indian unit.The restoration was carried out from 1948 to 1956, under the leadership of Joseph Breck Fratadocchi, who made a reconstruction of the interior of the abbey with blind and dumb spaces between the frames of the time, opposed by art historians bitter enemies of the fundamentalist false antique. The task of merging the bells of the abbey in 1949 was assigned to the Agnone.Negli eighties were commissioned a series of frescoes which still adorn the basilica, the master Pietro Annigoni ABB. The realization of the pictorial cycle involving several students including Master Romano Stefanelli, Ben Long and Silvestro Pistolesi.


National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise
The National Park of Abruzzo was established by private enterprise in 1922 and recognized with RDL 257 11 January 1923. At the current territory was reached after successive additions. The management is the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise. It affects 25 municipalities in the provinces of Frosinone, and L'Aquila. Large mammals have been the main cause of the establishment of reserves. At one time all the protected animals in the park area were widespread throughout the central and southern, being genetically independent populations compared to European species, often of real endemism, zoological important yet not fully studied in their genetic identity.

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