Rocca Priora

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Rocca Priora
coat of arms
Rocca Priora (Italy)
Rocca Priora
Country Italy
region Lazio
Metropolitan city Rome  (RM)
Coordinates 41 ° 48 '  N , 12 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 47 '34 "  N , 12 ° 45' 47"  E
height 768  m slm
surface 28 km²
Residents 12,258 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 438 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 00079
prefix 06
ISTAT number 058088
Popular name Roccaprioresi
Patron saint San Sebastiano
Website Rocca Priora

Rocca Priora is an Italian commune in the metropolitan city of Rome in the Lazio region with 12,258 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It is located 29 km southeast of Rome .

geography

Rocca Priora is on the edge of the Alban Mountains and is one of the municipalities of the Castelli Romani .

It is the seat of the Comunità Montana dei Castelli Romani e Prenestini .

history

The medieval town of Rocca Priora was successively owned by the Annibaldi and Savelli families until they sold it to the Camera Apostolica in 1596 because of their debts . Since then it has belonged to the Papal States and since 1870 to the Italian nation-state.

Population development

year 1881 1901 1921 1936 1951 1971 1991 2001
Residents 2,057 2,458 3,018 3,222 3,516 4,414 8,456 10,002

Source: ISTAT

politics

On May 26, 2019, Anna Gentili (Lista Civica: Siamo Rocca Priora) was elected mayor.

Attractions

  • At Piazza Umberto I, the castle and parish church stand side by side. The Castello Savelli, now serving as the town hall, is a free invention by the architect Virginio Vespignani from 1880 on the ruins of the former castle of the Savelli family with rectangular towers and a two-flight staircase leading to the entrance portal.
  • The parish church of Santa Maria Assunta, with its facade and three-aisled interior, is determined by the architecture of the period after the Second World War.

Town twinning

Rocca Priora has partnerships too

Son of the community

Web links

Commons : Rocca Priora  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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