Olevano Romano

Olevano Romano
Country	Italy
region	Lazio
Metropolitan city	Rome  (RM)
Coordinates	41 ° 52 '  N , 13 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 51 '37 "  N , 13 ° 1' 56"  E
height	571  m slm
surface	26 km²
Residents	6,654 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	256 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	00035
prefix	06
ISTAT number	058073
Popular name	Olevanesi
Patron saint	Santa Margherita
Website	Olevano Romano
Olevano Romano from the east

Olevano Romano is an Italian commune in the metropolitan city of Rome in the Lazio region with 6654 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

Location of Olevano Romano in the Province of Rome

Olevano Romano is 57 km east of Rome and 50 km northwest of Frosinone . The historic center extends up the Monte Celeste , a ridge of the Monti Prenestini, the southern foothills of which the municipality occupies. From here you have a wide view of the Sacco valley and the opposite Monti Lepini . The municipality extends over a height of 246 to 700  m slm

Olevano is a member of the Comunità Montana Valle dell'Aniene .

The community is located in earthquake zone 2 (medium risk).

The neighboring municipalities are clockwise: Genazzano , San Vito Romano , Bellegra , Roiate , Serrone ( FR ) and Paliano (FR).

traffic

• Olevano is 17 km from the Colleferro junction of the A1 Autostrada del Sole motorway.
• It is 5 km from the SS 155 Via Prenestina that goes from Rome to Frosinone .
• The nearest train station on the FR6 Rome – Cassino regional line is 18 km away in Valmontone .

history

Olevano , painting by Albert Bierstadt , 1856/57

Serpentara landscape near Olevano , painting by Paul Weber , around 1860

The oldest structural evidence is the Cyclops walls in Via Ara de 'Santi, which were built by the Aequern to defend against the Romans and are related to similar fortifications in Bellegra and Roiate. With the final defeat of the Aequer in 304 BC. Chr. Was incorporated the area into the Roman Republic. Numerous archaeological finds prove the continued settlement of the area without written reports about a settlement.

After the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire, the municipality came to the territory of the Subiaco Abbey . The first written mention as feudum Castro Olibani dates from 958, when Pope John XII. the Benedictine abbey confirmed ownership.

In the 13th century, the Colonna acquired the place, which they sold to Scipione Caffarelli Borghese in 1614 . In 1849 Giuseppe Garibaldi briefly conquered Olevano, which in 1870 became part of the Kingdom of Italy .

In the 19th century, Olevano was the target of numerous painters from Northern Europe, especially the so-called German Romans around Joseph Anton Koch . The German art historian Karl Friedrich von Rumohr owned a villa in Olevano Romano in the 1820s, the view of which was captured in a watercolor by the German painter Friedrich von Nerly in 1824

Friedrich Preller the Elder - The Serpentara at Olevano

The Serpentara oak forest, located near Olevano, was a sacred oak grove that was particularly worthy of protection for the German Romans. The planned deforestation in 1873 was prevented by a joint action by art lovers and painters by buying the forest for the benefit of the German Empire and the German Emperor. A quarter of the costs were taken over by the painter Carl Schuch . Today the Akademie der Künste Berlin maintains the Villa Serpentara for its scholarship holders. A second scholarship holder is the Casa Baldi , which belongs to the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo .

Population development

year	1881	1901	1921	1936	1951	1971	1991	2001	2011
Residents	3,836	4,753	6,024	6,615	6,482	6.114	6,000	6,814	6,733

Source ISTAT

politics

Umberto Quaresima was elected mayor in June 2016. His citizen list Bene in comune also has the majority in the municipal council with 8 out of 12 seats. His predecessor Marco Mampieri, who was elected mayor in May 2011, no longer ran. Guglielmina Ranaldi ( PD ) was previously mayor from 2001 to 2011.

Town twinning

• Olevano Romano has been twinned with the Russian city of Volgograd since 2011 .

Attractions

• In the medieval Castello Colonna you can see frescoes from the 16th century.
• Palazzo Baronale
• Olevano Romano Art Museum

literature

In 2018 Esther Kinsky won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her novel Hain: Geländeroman , which is partly set in Olevano Romano.

Culinary specialties

The DOC wine Cesanese di Olevano Romano is grown only in the neighboring municipality of Genazzano , except in Olevano .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Italian civil defense
3. ↑ Vittorio Emiliani, Pino Coscetta: Nei borghi antichi la storia è vita , ed. Province of Rome, 2011. PDF ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ FAZ from December 15, 2010, p. N3: painter, gastrosoph , museum man: Rumohrs Welt.
5. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT . Population statistics from the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, as of December 31, 2011.
6. ^ Information from the Ministry of the Interior , accessed on March 19, 2018.
7. ^ Information from the Ministry of the Interior , accessed on May 23, 2012.
8. ↑ Press release of the municipality of Olevano February 1, 2011, accessed on July 2, 2012.
9. ^ Literature award for "Hain: Geländeroman". In: Stern . March 15, 2018, accessed March 19, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Weinstrasse des Cesanese ( Memento des Originals from August 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : Olevano Romano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Olevano Romano on www.comuni-italiani.it (Italian)
• Comunità Montana Valle dell'Aniene (Italian)
• Olevano as an artist colony of the Romantics (German)