Gradoli

Gradoli
Country	Italy
region	Lazio
province	Viterbo  (VT)
Coordinates	42 ° 39 ′  N , 11 ° 51 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 38 ′ 40 "  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 20"  E
height	470  m slm
surface	37 km²
Residents	1,294 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	35 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	01010
prefix	0761
ISTAT number	056028
Popular name	Gradolesi
Patron saint	San Magno
Website	Gradoli

Gradoli is a municipality with 1294 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Viterbo in the Italian region of Lazio .

Gradoli

geography

Gradoli is 120 km northwest of Rome , 44 km northwest of Viterbo and 12 km west of Bolsena . It is located in the Monti Volsini above Lake Bolsena . The community is a member of the Comunità Montana Alta Tuscia Laziale .

The neighboring municipalities are Bolsena , Capodimonte , Grotte di Castro , Latera , Onano and Valentano .

traffic

Gradoli is on the state road SS 489, a side road of the Via Cassia .

history

Probably originated in the late migration period as a retreat settlement before Lombards , Arabs and Hungary enters the Castellum Gradolarum in 1114 in the gift of Matilda of Canossa in appearance, with this their lands appropriated over the popes. After various changes of ownership, including the city of Orvieto , Cardinal Egidio Albornoz returned the place to direct papal rule around 1360. In 1445, Pope Eugene IV appointed Ranuccio V of the Farnese family as papal vicar for Gradoli, which Leo X extended indefinitely in 1513. In 1537 the place came to the Duchy of Castro and served as the summer residence of the dukes. After the second Castro-War of 1649 he was re-direct the Papal States incorporated until this autumn 1870 in the Kingdom of Italy came up. The townscape is dominated by the Palazzo Farnese and the parish church of Santa Maria Maddalena.

Population development

year	1881	1901	1921	1936	1951	1971	1991	2001	2011
Residents	1,832	2,048	2,096	2,303	2,358	1,849	1,548	1,496	1,479

Source ISTAT

politics

Luigi Buzi ( PD ) was elected mayor in June 2009 and was confirmed in office in the elections on May 25 and 26, 2014, with no opposing candidates. His center-left list therefore also occupies all 10 seats on the municipal council. Buzi replaced Gerardo Naddeo ( center-right alliance ), who served as mayor from 2004 to 2009 and was defeated by him in the 2009 election.

Attractions

• Palazzo Farnese, built on the site of a previous castle from 1515 to 1534 by Antonio da Sangallo , the court architect of the Farnese on behalf of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, since 1534 Pope Paul III. After 1649 it was used as a monastery, became state property in 1874, only to come into private hands in 1878; Pope Benedict XV donated the palace he bought back in 1922 to the municipality of Gradoli. In 1997, a major renovation was largely completed. Outside, determined by large bastion walls at three corners in the form of tower extensions, the building rises with its main facade of seven axes and the basement and three high upper floors; the rear facade is designed similarly. Inside there are three staircases that lead to the representative floors: In the first, the Sala Ducale is furnished with mannerist wall frescoes in grotesque style and a fireplace. On the second floor, further representative rooms are decorated with frescoes of mythological content; they house the Museo del Costume Farnesiano, which exhibits replicas of 16th century costumes.
• Collegiate church S. Maria Maddalena to the left of Palazzo Farnese as a new building with a baroque facade after the fire of the medieval predecessor church, consecrated on April 25, 1705 by Cardinal Marcantonio Barbarigo. Three-aisled interior with six side chapels and high altar with a statue of the Madonna. In the first chapel on the left the Renaissance baptismal font by Isaia da Pisa , in the church museum a cycle of frescoes with scenes of the Passion of Christ.
• Chapel of San Michele Arcangelo with fresco of the crucifixion accompanied by Mary and John the Evangelist.
• Country church of San Vittore in the southwest outside Gradolis with painting of the Madonna della Vittoria.
• Country church of San Magno east of the village near Lake Bolsena from the early Renaissance, once owned by the Order of Malta , with a large portal and coat of arms and three altars inside. Near the church excavation site of a Roman country villa.
• Two fountains in the square in front of the western gate to the town center and in the main square in front of the Palazzo Farnese.

Culinary specialties

The red dessert wine Aleatico di Gradoli is grown in three varieties in Gradoli and the neighboring communities . Another specialty is the Grappa di Aleatico di Gradoli. A grechetto Bianco and Rosso is also produced.

Events

In spring, on Shrove Tuesday, the Pranzo del Purgatorio takes place, a "poor people's meal" in preparation for Lent. For the local dessert wine, at the end of July / beginning of August di Sagra dell'Aleatico, a folk festival with wine tasting, food and games.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Giuseppe Perugini (1759–1829), Curia Bishop
• Cardinal Domenico Ferrata (1847–1914), papal diplomat, cardinal priest of Santa Prisca in 1896 , briefly cardinal state secretary of Pope Benedict XV in the autumn of 1914 until his death on October 10 ; his monumental mausoleum is in the local cemetery.

literature

• Les Mémoires du Cardinal Dominique Ferrata , 3 vols. Rome 1920.
• I Farnese: trecento anni di storia , Rome 1990.
• Flaminia Gennari Santori: La decorazione del Palazzo Farnese di Gradoli , in: Storia dell'arte 83, 1995, pp. 82-110.
• This. - Sabina Robert - Francesca Vicarelli: Decorazioni farnesiane nei palazzi di Valentano, Capodimonte e Gradoli , Rome 1996 ISBN 978-88-8016-166-0
• Elena Agostini: Gradoli, storia e territorio , Viterbo 1998.
• Paolo Cirigliano: Territorio della doc Aleatico di Gradoli e definizione di sottozone , in: L'Informatore agrario 61, 2005, pp. 59-62.
• Salvatore Enrico Anselmi: La decorazione pittorica nelle residenze farnesiane di Capodimonte e Gradoli. Due esempi di vulgata raffaellesca , in: Laura and Massimo G. Bonelli (eds.): L'età di Michelangelo e la Tuscia , Viterbo 2007, pp. 28–41.
• Georg Henke - Frank Schwarz: Latium with Rome , 2nd edition Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8317-1714-9 , p. 134 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT . Population statistics from the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, as of December 31, 2011.
3. ^ Information from the Ministry of the Interior
4. ^ Information from the Ministry of the Interior
5. ^ Speciale elezioni 2009. In: La Repubblica . June 8, 2009, accessed January 26, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Gradoli  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Gradoli on www.comuni-italiani.it (Italian)
• Comunità Montana Alta Tuscia Laziale (Italian)