Acquapendente rises on a tufaceous spur that slopes towards the valley of the river Paglia, with irregular shape, flowing into a particular funnel shape. The wealth of natural springs and watercourses, which have always plowed the place, is at the origin of the town’s...
The main square of the city is named after Girolamo Fabrici d’Acquapendente, born here in 1533 from a noble family. At the age of 17 he moved to Padua to study medicine and became a great anatomist. Tito Sarrocchi immortalizes him in a splendid statue placed in the...
The church, to which a convent was annexed, was born in the Gothic style in 1290. The traces of the original building are still preserved, but over the years it has undergone several changes. In the sixteenth century the primitive portal was closed, still visible...
Monsignor Aldobrandini consecrated the Franciscan church of Santa Maria, later known as the Church of San Francesco, in 1149. It was part of a monastery until a few decades ago inhabited by the friars of minor conventuals. Access to the church is via a large portal...
Torre del Barbarossa Last vestige of the ancient Castle of Federico I Barbarossa, destroyed by the population following the rebellion of 1166, where the story is tinged with the miraculous. A dry cherry tree that, for a miracle of the Madonna, suddenly covered itself...
The courageous gesture of the girl, Julia de Jacopo in 1550, who during the attack of the Pitigliano troops of Nicola IV Orsini ran to close the door left open by the soldiers on guard, and saved the city. It was the door of the Holy Sepulcher, or Porta Romana, one of...
Basilica del Santo Sepolcro e Cripta The Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher stands along the Via Francigena and according to a legendary tradition the church was founded by Queen Matilde of Westphalia, headed to Rome with a caravan of mules laden with gold to build a...
Castle and Village of Trevinano Trevinano is a hill town belonging to the municipality of Acquapendente, located right on the border between Lazio and Tuscany. The first document that bears the name Trevinano dates back to January 1073 and is an act of donation to the...
Castle and Village of Torre Alfina From the top of its 602 meters the village dominates the surrounding area. Fraction of the municipality of Acquapendente, it was born in the early Middle Ages around a sighting tower located at the highest point of the Alfina...
