San Gregorio da Sassola

San Gregorio da Sassola
Country	Italy
region	Lazio
Metropolitan city	Rome  (RM)
Coordinates	41 ° 55 '  N , 12 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 55 '7 "  N , 12 ° 52' 23"  E
height	420  m slm
surface	35 km²
Residents	1,490 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	43 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	00010
prefix	0774
ISTAT number	058095
Popular name	Sangregoriani
Patron saint	San Gregorio
Website	San Gregorio da Sassola

San Gregorio da Sassola is an Italian commune in the metropolitan city of Rome in the Lazio region with 1490 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It is located 46 kilometers east of Rome .

geography

San Gregorio da Sassola is located on a ridge, a foothill of Monte Pagliaro (948 m), in the Monti Prenestini. The community is a member of the Comunità Montana Monti Sabini e Tiburtini .

history

In ancient times, the city of Aequer Aefulae is said to have been located in the municipality of San Gregorio. It was one of the places that fell in the course of the so-called Latin War 340 - 338 BC. Raised unsuccessfully against Rome. Titus Livius wrote that the Romans in 207 BC A garrison soldiers were stationed in Aefulae to stop Hannibal . But Pliny the Elder already reports that Aefula was deserted. Instead, however, a number of wealthy Roman villas were built in their area.

During the migration period , the population withdrew to fortified places. Here it was the Castello Faustiniano, which is said to have been built over a villa of the Roman Empress Faustina : ruins of it are still visible in the district of Colle Faustiniano. In 587 Pope Gregory I donated a property to the monastery of Sant'Andrea al Celio in Rome, from which the Castello San Gregorio arose until the 12th century, to which the inhabitants of the Castello Faustiniano moved over time. From 1300, San Gregorio was controversial between the Colonna and Orsini noble families .

In 1567 Giordano Orsini sold San Gregorio to Cardinal Prospero Santacroce , who had the castle expanded, but also brutally exploited the town's residents. The Cardinal's heirs sold San Gregorio for 130,000 scudi to Lotario II Conti, Duke of Poli, and the latter to the Barberini family for the same amount in 1632 .

Cardinal Carlo Pio di Savoia acquired the place in 1655 . After the plague in 1656 he settled families from the upper Lazio in the newly founded suburb of Borgo Pio; he also had the Santa Maria Nova monastery renovated. San Gregorio remained in the possession of the Savoia until 1855. After several changes of ownership, it came into the possession of Prince Salvatore Brancaccio and his wife Maria Elisabetta, a wealthy American who brought a dowry of one million dollars into the marriage in 1889. In 1920 the municipality acquired most of the princes' property, but the castle was not sold to the municipality until 1991 by the last owner, Duchess Fernanda Brancaccio-Ceccarelli.

During World War II, San Gregorio was occupied by German troops in 1943 and bombed by the Allies on June 4, 1944 .

Population development

year	1881	1901	1921	1936	1951	1971	1991	2001
Residents	1,230	1,858	1,712	1.924	1,957	1,514	1,499	1,444

Source: ISTAT

politics

Franco Carocci was appointed mayor on June 11, 2016.

Twin town

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Attractions

panorama

• The Castello Brancaccio, which defines the townscape, dates back to the 10th century. The current structure dates mainly from the 16th and 17th centuries, but between 1889 and 1899 a comprehensive renovation with the construction of new components took place, which Maria Elisabetta Brancaccio financed: Therefore, the castle today gives the impression of being revised in the style of historicism Building. In some of the rooms there are frescoes by Taddeo and Federico Zuccari .
• The parish church of San Gregorio Magno was built in 1485.
• The monastery of Santa Maria Nova was founded by the Franciscans three kilometers outside the village in the 16th century , but abandoned in 1659. In 1675 it was taken over by the Augustinian hermits and restored.
• Impressive ruins of the aqueducts of Anio Novus , Anio Vetus , Aqua Claudia and Aqua Marcia have been preserved throughout the municipality .

Web links

Commons : San Gregorio da Sassola  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Associazione Culturale Aefula (Italian)
• San Gregorio da Sassola on www.comuni-italiani.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

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