Capena

Capena
Country	Italy
region	Lazio
Metropolitan city	Rome  (RM)
Coordinates	42 ° 8 '  N , 12 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 8 '29 "  N , 12 ° 32' 25"  E
height	160  m slm
surface	29 km²
Residents	10,958 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	378 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	00060
prefix	06
ISTAT number	058018
Popular name	Capenatii
Patron saint	St. Luke

Capena is an Italian commune in the metropolitan city of Rome in the Lazio region with 10,958 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It is 39 km north of Rome .

geography

Capena lies above the valley of the Tiber . The old town rises on a hill above the valley, while the modern districts on the plain stretch to the Roma-Nord motorway exit .

The neighboring towns are Castelnuovo di Porto , Civitella San Paolo , Fiano Romano , Montelibretti , Monterotondo , Morlupo and Rignano Flaminio .

traffic

Capena is eight kilometers from the Roma Nord exit on the A1 Autostrada del Sole motorway from Rome to Milan .

The municipal area is crossed by the Florence – Rome high-speed railway , which, however, has no stop here. The nearest train station, Fara, in Sabina on the FR1 regional line , from Rome-Fiumicino Airport via Rome-Tiburtina to Orte , is 12 km from the town center. At Capena there are small airfields ( Aviosuperfici ) for general aviation .

history

Founded under the name Leprignano as a retreat in the late migration period on a tuff hill with partly steep slopes, a castrum Lepronianum appears in a document from Pope Gregory VII of March 14, 1081 as property of the Abbey of San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome. With various interruptions, the monastery was able to maintain this condition until 1870. In 1933 the place name was changed to the one that is valid today in order to postulate a continuity to the pre-Roman city of Capena , with reference to ancient history by Benito Mussolini , which was the chief town of the small people of the Capenates , who lived until around 390 BC. Between the Faliskern in the north, Etruscans in the west, Sabines in the east and Romans in the south , only to come under Roman rule. Ancient Capena was on the hill called Civitucola a few kilometers north of today's small town.

Population development

year	1871	1881	1901	1921	1936	1951	1971	1991	2001	2011
Residents	1,082	1,148	1,579	1,756	2,066	2,335	2,808	4,875	5,826	9,488

Source: ISTAT

politics

Antonella Bernardoni (list of citizens) was elected mayor in June 2009 and replaced Riccardo Benigni, who was no longer running. With effect from December 1, 2016, Giovanni Luigi Bombagi was appointed by the state as extraordinary administrator of municipal affairs (Italian Commissario Straordinario ); thus the powers of the electoral officials and council members who had been active until then were suspended. In the local elections on June 11, 2017, Roberto Barbetti was elected as the new ordinary mayor.

Attractions

• Palazzo dei Monaci: First a castle-like fortification by the monks of San Paolo fuori le Mura, the building was redesigned in the Renaissance style in 1599 . Inside there are storage rooms below, but rooms for representation, for guests and the monks with a chapel on the two upper floors. Used as the town hall between 1920 and 1930, the building was sold by the abbey to private individuals in the latter year. A renovation was made recently.
• Torre dell'Orologio: Set back between two other buildings on the Piazza del Popolo, the clock tower now serves as a local museum that documents the history of Leprignano using archaeological objects.
• Church of Sant'Antonio Abbate on Provincial Road 51b with remains of Roman architecture on the access stairs.
• Church of San Leone am Friedhof: Early medieval building with an iconostasis composed of richly decorated frieze panels in wickerwork style and high Renaissance frescoes on the rear wall of the apse in two registers one above the other.
• From the destroyed church of San Michele at the Palazzo dei Monaci a lintel has been preserved, on which the building inscription mentions the year 1477 under Pope Sixtus IV . In 1907 a new church of San Michele in the neo-Gothic style was inaugurated at Provinzialstrasse 51b opposite the neo-baroque town hall: Inside there is a late Gothic triptych dated 1452 , the Christ as Savior, the Apostles Peter and Paul and an Annunciation Represents Mary; Antonio da Viterbo is named as a painter.
• In the Scorano district there is a modern building complex of the Italian branch of the German industrial group Würth, in which the associated Art Forum Würth Capena has been holding exhibitions of modern art since 2006.
• A few remains of the ancient city of Capena lie on a hill between two streams in the district of Civitucola, namely parts of the town wall, foundation walls of a building interpreted as a temple, street fragments of the Via Capenate and a church where a number of Roman inscriptions were found in 1931, including one of the Emperor Augustus .
• The area of ​​the Roman city of Lucus Feroniae is located in the valley on Via Tiberina.

Culinary specialties

The white wine Bianco di Capena is produced on the communal territory .

literature

• Enrico Stefani: Capena, scoperte archeologiche nell'Agro Capenate. Ricerche archeologiche nella contrada "Le Saliere" , Rome 1957
• Barri Jones: Capena and the Ager Capenas. Their Historical and Topographical Setting , 2 vols., Oxford 1963
• Daniela Napoletano: L'archivio storico di Leprignano: inventario , Capena 1985
• Giovanni Giacomo Pani: Capena e il suo territorio Bari 1995 ISBN 88-220-4149-6
• Simon Keay - Martin Millett - Kristian Strutt: An Archaeological Survey of Capena (La Civitucola, provincia di Roma) , in: Papers of the British School at Rome 74, 2006, 73-118

Remarks

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.

Web links

Commons : Capena  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Capena on www.comuni-italiani.it (Italian)