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| Coves of I castrate to m 467 s.l.m. rises on one tufacea cliff of the Volsini mounts on the side western north of the lago of Bolsena, 48 km to NW from capoluogo the Viterbo. It was founded in the High Middle Ages from the inhabitants escapes you to the destruction of the Civita neighbor, to the search of a sure and defensible place. They are present on its territory necropoli Etruscan of the WAYS century a.C. Country to agricultural economy, has placed side by side to the traditional cultivations of screw, ulivo and frumento, the potato, that it has rendered the territory famous. The origins of Coves of I castrate go back to the Etruscan period, of the numerous necropoli scattered in its territory and the multitude of reperti are testimony that still today they reappear to the light. On the called hill Civita to little hundreds of meters from he puts into effect them inhabited center rose, in fact, one flourishing Etruscan citizen which the tradition has tax the name of Shooting, although to care is various theories. One supposes that the city was destroyed during the roman invasion of the 280 to C. while of the successive period we know very little, presumablly the life continued following the customs and the laws you set up from Rome. During the first Middle Ages, the populations of the lago of Bolsena endured the invasion of the Barbarians who give the north decreased on Rome. In such surf Shooting of new it was destroyed in the WAYS sec. for work of the Longobardi. To testimony of that it remains the name of a called locality "goes them muje", that is it goes them of urli, where she seems has happened the bloody one eccidio. The little survivors gathered in small centers giving origin to the countries of S. old Lorenzo and to the Coves, than but they still endured mournings for work of the Saraceni in i centuries IX and X. In the 1077 Contessa Matilde di Canossa it donated to the Roman Church, from part of the Tuscia, a portion of territory that included also Coves, was this the first official action in which the new name of the country appeared. The years that followed were characterize you from bloody territorial fights that they prevented to this center to improve the own living conditions. The period buio finished in March 1537, given in which Pierluigi Farnese, son of Pope Paul III, it permuted the city of Frascati, previously acquired, with Castrates, whose territory comprised also the Castle of the Coves that with such action entered to make part of the possedimenti of the Farnese Family. Under this lineage the populations of the Ducato knew a period of peace and pr0sperity that lacked from too many years. In the 1646 Coves it returned under the dominion of the Church and the two centuries that followed were characterize you from a regimen of life monotone, whose made salienti they were legacies above all to the religious events. Neanche the napoleonico period and that risorgimentale succeeded to shake the fidelity of the country to the Church. In 1886 Large Fontana was built up thanks to which the water caught up the inhabited center. To find the honorary citizenship granted ' 8 september 1926 ' to general Noble Umberto aeronautical engineer, than in the May of the same year flew over with the just dirigible "Norge" the North Pole, launch to you the Italian flags, American, Norwegian, let alone gagliardetto of the circle "Cesar Batistes" of Coves of I castrate, in virtue of the promise made to the population that same it defined: "simple People and fair" worthy representative of all common the rural ones of Italy. To Coves of I castrate are interesting places and monuments to visit: the Necropoli di particularly rich Pianezze of tombe rupestri to complex plant and Vine the Public square where instead they are diffuse those to cassone; both to passed ancient testimony of the Etruscan one. Right in the center historical to little distance from the communal building, the Archaeological Museum is active from 1993 and of the popular traditions that it guards more than 160 reperti Etruschi, in the Palace that accommodated a time the Podestà. The Communal Palace, constructed in XVI the century on design of the Vignola, conserve one beautiful scroll scale in stone. In Cavour Public square a lapide it was placed to memory of the enterprise, on ghiacciai of the North Pole, of Noble Umberto (city honorarium of Coves of I castrate). The Basilica Sanctuary of Maria SS. of the Suffragio; it was constructed in baroque style from the 1625 on a previous Pieve of VIII the century dedicated to S. Giovanni Batiste, of which they remain some you leave inglobate and the basements that accommodate one remarkable collection of sacred objects. They are conserved to its entire precious lignei inlays of baroque age, and a wood statue policromo that it represents the Madonna of the ten Suffragio that is celebrated solemn every anni.La Church of S. Peter Apostle, built up for wanting of Matilde di Canossa in century XI; little conserve of the ancient origins that are hidden from the restorations and successive reconstructions. For how much it concerns the traditional festivities we cite: The first Sunday of August - Alive the lago. Day of festivity in river to the lago with festival of the gastronomica Panzanella and tavolata with exposure of local typical plates. 11/15 of August - Sacred of the Potato. Tasting of plates of the tradition of the same country made up of potatoes. |
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