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| Hill Washbowl is situated on the preAppennine depositor of the Sabini Mounts, on the left river of the Tevere, in almost equidistant position from Rieti, Rome and Cerni. Hill Washbowl and Washbowl is two little distant city centers between they, to approximately 385 meters of same altitude and constituent the Common one. They have to the shoulders a wooded territory in which s' inerpica a road that leads to Rieti, crossing the Calantino torrent that slides in a deep throat between the ruins of two Castles, situates to you on the top of full of rocks peaks: the Tancia on the northern side and the Fatucchio on that meridional. Two summits on the crinale: Mount Pizzuto and Monte Tancia. Historical references do not exist that concur to date with exactitude the origin of these two centers; it is only sure that Washbowl is risen before Hill Washbowl, in the period begins them of the domination longobarda, between the 650 and the 700. Hill Washbowl is in effects a takeover to satellitare; given the impossibility for Washbowl to become larger itself, since constructed on the full of rocks shoulder of a dolina, vertical on a side and strongly acclivio on the opposite side, it came constructed a new Castle to least distance, on the height of a hill (Moricone), in equally happy strategic position. This "sdoppiamento" happened between 1060 and 1100. The history of these incastellati takeovers, deriving from the necessity of control put off center of the territory from part of the Longobardi, evolve in parallel with that one of the Abbey of Farfa, that it carried out to the age a political role of aggregation and reference on the economic plan, social and religious. During the period of domination saracena of the Abbey (898 d.C.), some petty thieves penetrated to its inside being useful for their momentary absence, provoking a fire that he destroyed the monastico complex: these petty thieves were of Washbowl. E' this the first documented historical episode of the existence of Washbowl. Other historical reference is the reconstruction of the Nail head of S. Peter di Catino for work of Abbot Giovanni III (966-997), documented in the registries farfensi. The Church of S. Peter verosimilmente was located on the Hill of Fontegrotti, in the pressed ones of the Villa of Osterno. In this locality they have been recovered, also recently, rests of ancient constructions. The Sabina, in age longobarda, was part of the territory of Rieti that, in its turn, made part of the Ducato di Spoleto. Around to the 781, Carl Magno gives back the territory of the Sabina Lowland to Pope Adrian I, in exchange of its renunciation to the Ducato di Spoleto, than previously he had delivered himself to the same Pope. Washbowl was under the dominion of the Ducato di Spoleto until approximately year Thousands: in the 1198 Ducato it passed under the direct government of Pope Innocenzo III, when Washbowl had already assumed one political structure of oligarchical type, in order to assume of lì to short the shape of Common. In the meantime already Hill was risen Washbowl. The following period was marked from great political disorder and fights between the castles that the Abbey of Farfa did not succeed to hold under adequate control; it was an participation direct of the Sede Saint to re-establish the order and to transform Washbowl and Hill Washbowl in Barony. Successive dynastic fights lead the two castles under the aegis of the Orsini, the Savelli, the Capizucchi and Olgiati (1614); to these last ones important improvements of the territory must to some, which the street connection with the old one Pay wages to, the restoration of the Hill Palace Washbowl (than divenne Center Baronial), the construction of a precious aqueduct and the edificazione of the Church of S. Nicholas di Bari on the rests of the old church by now in ruin. |
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