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The
town of Capodimonte is placed in the south western part
of the lake of Bolsena. Thanks to the beneficial infuence
of the lake, the winters are always myths with moderate
rains and most insufficient snowy precipitations, while
the summers are warm but not sultry for the constant presence
of the breeze. Therefore the exceptionally favorable climate
has contributed to the ideal reproduction of numerous
faunistic and floreal species and to the development of
the tourism.
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A Lot
of
species characterize the aquatic flora: a well known between
the fishermen is the potamogeto perfoliato (in slang: lojja)
and the aquatic ranuncolo (in slang: marajja), among the
fish we had to remark the good ones coregoni exalted roasted
in the fair, not to forget, the lattarini, the lucci, the
trouts and the appetizing eels remembered from Dante Alighieri
in the Divine Commedy (song XXIV of Purgatorio).
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In
speaking of the past we can assure that the territory of
Capodimonte has been attended since the remoter ages, like
widely demonstrated by the most important discoveries of
prehystoric age (numerous objects going back to the Paleolitic
age), the protohistoric piroga monoxile of the dimensions
of mt 6,25 X 0,70, currently in restoration in a room opportunely
adapted by the citizens, soon exposed in the museum actually
in building. Numerous reperts of villanoviana, Etruscan,
and roman age coming from the city of Vesentum, that it
rose on the Bisenzo mount, where today have been realized
a naturalistic archaeological park.
Vesentum, moreover marked from the Latin historian Plinio
the Young in the list of the greater Etruscan cities, is
particularly famous to the students for the archaeological
reperts found in the sepolcreti of the necropoli around
the acropolis of the Bisenzo mount, with several king of
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ipogei,
realized in the shape of cassa, fossa, with or without sarcofago,
Many of this objects, escaped to the despoliation of the
clandestines, constitute some collections exposed in numerous
and famous museums of great cities of all the world (New
York, Chicago, Buffalo, Paris, Copenaghen, Basel, Ascona
etc.) and in the most important archaeological museums in
Italy among them the museums of Villa Julia and Pigorini
of Rome, the Gregorian Etruscan museum of the Vatican and
in the museums of Florence, Siena, Grosseto, Viterbo etc.. |
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Some
important archaeological researches, (still in course),
have been documented the uninterrupted continuity of life
of Bisenzo since the age of the Recent Bronze (interesting
are the rests of inhabited structures going back to the
X° century b.C.) until the V° century b.C., period
in which Vesentum it endured the fates of other Etruscan
cities, decaying quickly after the destruction operated
by the Roman until the late republican age when it rose
with the constitution of a Municipium, ascribed to the Sabatina
tribe; subsequently with the arrive of the Christianity
it was elected to episcopal center until the destruction
carried out by the Longobardi in the VIII century with consequent
transfer of the diocese to Castro. |
After this destruction many inhabitants survivors were sheltered
in the surrounding zones originating some countries between
which Capodimonte, that only in 1102 was erected to christian
center. In 1254 was built up a fortified castle incorporating
an old tower, in 1269 it passed under the Patrimony of Saint
Peter for wanting of Bonifacio VIII° and in the course
of the XV century it passed under the lordship of the Farnese
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Thanks
to this noble family, the most remarkable artists of that
period have left important works of a high artistic and
historical value. Between them there are the octagonal size
of the Rocca, restructured in years 1510 - 1513 from Antonio
Giamberti said the Sangallo the Young, in Bisentina isle
we find the church of the S.S. Giacomo and Cristoforo attributed
to Jacopo Barozzi said the Vignola, realized in the vicinities
of the "Malta", a prison made to build up by the
Cardinal Albornoz for the heretical ones and remembered
from Dante in the Divine Comedy. Always in the Bisentina
isle, are found the two existing of the seven small churches
decorated with fresco and realized by painters of the 1400,
perhaps of the school of Benozzo Gozzoli, (some critics
attribute the designs of the nail head of the Trasfigurazione
to Melozzo the Painter from Forlì).
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Today
Capodimonte is articulated in two parts, the village and
the new town. The village, of medieval period, is situated
on the cape that comes down on the lake, where is built
the Rocca Farnese, the church, where there is the image
of the Madonna delle Grazie, attributed from some critics
to the school of Neapolitan painter Sebastiano Conca, the
Bourgeois palace, currently communal center and the Puniatowski
palace, built up on plan of the Valadier.
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The
new zone has been developed mainly in the plain terrain,
in front of the beach of the lake, summery goal of numerous
tourists, preferred for its water, for the cooling shadow
of the trees and the cleaning. The mass tourism is placed
side by side to the cultural one, and is favorited not only
by the climate and the beauty of the places, but also from
the numerous historical, artistic and folkloristic attractions. |
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As a
traditions that last for twenty years, on the First Sunday
of August is realized the festival of the Coregone, in which
the fish is cooked on the live coal and accompanied by the
good local wine.
Moreover
is celebrated the festivity of Saint Rocco during the half
of August with the organization of numerous manifestations
between which spectacular fireworks on the lake and the
festivity of the Madonna delle grazie with the traditional
"infiorata".
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In
the restaurants and the trattories of Capodimonte is possible
to taste some of local gastronomical products based also
on the fish of the lake such first plates: zuppa of fish
of lake, pasta in brodo with eggs of tinca, and the acquacotta
of the fisherman (in slang: sbroscia); second plates: frittura
of lattarini, marinata eel or to the vernaccia, roasted
carpa, coregone to the cartoccio, etc.
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An
underwater manger is realized in locality Giardinetti, in
the Naturalistic Archaeological Park in Loc. Bisenzio has
been realized a pedestrian tour that, dipped in the green
of the park, combines the camping to the historical center.
From some years beyond to the traditional fair of goodses
of the forth Sunday of August, during the summery Sundays
in the public walk of the Lungolago and the historical center
has been organized a market of the handicraft and the antique. |
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