Falvaterra

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Falvaterra
coat of arms
Falvaterra (Italy)
Falvaterra
Country Italy
region Lazio
province Frosinone  (FR)
Coordinates 41 ° 30 '  N , 13 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 30 '15 "  N , 13 ° 31' 22"  E
height 279  m slm
surface 12 km²
Residents 543 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 45 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 03020
prefix 0775
ISTAT number 060032
Popular name Falvaterrani
Patron saint San Sosio
Website Falvaterra

Falvaterra is an Italian commune in the province of Frosinone in the Lazio region with 543 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It is located 106 km southeast of Rome and 27 km southeast of Frosinone .

geography

Falvaterra lies above the Sacco valley on a foothill of the Monti Ausoni. It is a member of the Comunità Montana Monti Ausoni .

The neighboring towns are Arce , Castro dei Volsci , Ceprano , Pastena and San Giovanni Incarico .

traffic

Falvaterra is 11 km from the A1 Autostrada del Sole motorway , Ceprano exit.

With the train station Ceprano – Falvaterra (6 km from the center) the place is on the railway line Rome – Naples.

history

The inhabitants of 124 BC Fregellae destroyed by the Romans founded the town of Fabrateria Nova near today's San Giovanni Incarico . When it was destroyed by the Lombards in 580 AD , the residents moved to an easier-to-defend hill, today's Falvaterra. As a result, the place belonged to the Abbey of Montecassino that founded a daughter monastery below Falvaterra.

Around 1200 Falvaterra came to the Pagani family, who sold it to Pietro Caetani in 1301 . In 1556 Ferdinand I gave it to his ally Prospero Colonna . It stayed with the Colonna until the Italian unification in 1870.

After the destruction of neighboring Ceprano in 1944, the municipality of Ceprano moved into Falvaterra's town hall for a few years.

From the 19th century onwards, Falvaterra suffered from the migration of its inhabitants to major Italian cities and northern Europe. This development only came to an end with the industrialization of the Saccotal in the 1970s.

Population development

year 1871 1881 1901 1921 1936 1951 1971 1991 2001
Residents 1,545 1,372 1,307 1.003 998 991 591 587 630

Source: ISTAT

politics

Francesco Piccirilli was elected as the new mayor on June 26, 2019.

Attractions

Falvaterra has a well-preserved town center with parts of the city wall.

  • Colonna's castle dates back to the 14th century.
  • The parish church of Santa Maria from the 14th century was baroque in the 16th century.
  • The San Sosio monastery is located below the village, halfway into the Saccotal. Instead of an oratory that the Benedictines of Monte Cassino had dedicated to Saint Socius, the Passionist Monastery was founded in 1751 .

swell

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

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