Civita Castellana

Civita Castellana

Italy
      town, Lazio (Latium) region, central Italy. It lies along the Treia River, just southeast of the town of Viterbo. Civita Castellana stands on the site of the 9th-century-BC Falerii Veteres (“Old Falerii”), the capital of the Faliscans (Falisci), a tribe belonging to the Etruscan confederation against Rome. Faliscan vases have been found in its very rich necropolis. The city was destroyed by the Romans in 395 BC and again in 241 BC, and its inhabitants were moved to the plain where Falerii Novi (“New Falerii”) was built; ruins of that settlement's walls still stand. The original site was repopulated in the 8th and 9th centuries AD, when it belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. It was raised to an episcopal see in 990 and was given the title of civitas (city-state) in 998 by Pope Gregory V. In the 14th century it passed to the princes Savelli. Orte (1437) and Gallese (1805) were later united with it. Notable buildings in Civita Castellana include the cathedral, begun in the 7th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 13th centuries, and the imposing pentagonal Castella fort commissioned by Pope Alexander VI in 1494. Agriculture (cereals, wine) and the ceramics industry are the chief occupations. Pop. (2006 est.) mun., 16,156.

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