2-room flat via del Cinema, Vignanello

Vignanello, in the central area, close to the main services, we offer for sale an apartment in a small condominium consisting of a living room with kitchenette, double bedroom with balcony, hallway and bathroom. Large warehouse. Excellent deal.

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The oldest remains are found in a human settlement dating back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic (90,000 – 30,000 years ago) located in Cenciano diruto, where Homo Sapiens Sapiens easily found shelter in the naturally formed tuff caves present throughout the country (among the best known by the villagers are the "cross cave" and the so-called "a cave")

Thanks to the awareness and following the investments of Prince Alessandro Ruspoli, VII Prince of Cerveteri, in the first twenty years of the twentieth century, archaeological excavations were carried out by the Superintendency of Antiquities, which led to the identification, in the territory of present-day Vignanello, of an appreciable Faliscan center (VIII – 7th century BC). On the Molesino plateau there was a busy urban complex with an adjoining necropolis in the adjacent Valle del Fosso della Cupa, where 16 underground chamber tombs with a square plan were found, as well as some valuable finds, currently kept in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome. As further proof of the extensive use of the area in pre-Roman times, the surrounding countryside is also full of tombs with similar characteristics.[5]

There is no certain and clear evidence regarding the development of the inhabited center with the advent of the era Roman, however the legend narrated by the verses of a certain Giuseppe Manini, who arrived in Vignanello at the end of 1800, suggests that in 410 AD, following the disastrous descent along the Italian peninsula of Alaric I at the command of the Visigoths, the people fleeing from the sack of Rome took refuge in the harsh and impervious territory of the Cimini Hills, entering the thick woods. From there a vicus seems to have concentrated between the Zangola and Cupa ditches, where the community found sustenance in the presence of game and numerous water sources. The origin of the name Vignanello could date back to this era. In fact, according to the same legend, the greatest exponent of the vicus may have been a man named Giuliano, hence the first name of Giulianello, who underwent various evolutions until it became Uignanello and finally Vignanello (a toponym perhaps also inspired by the vineyards cultivated in the 'around).[6]

The first official mention of the village occurred in 604 AD, olivetum in Julianelli fiefdom, as a gift from Pope Gregory the Great in favor of the Vatican Basilica, subsequently the farm passed to the Holy Roman Empire, and then again to the pontiffs who made it a Benedictine possession until 1081-1082. In this period the village had already been transformed into a castrum, or rather into a city nucleus fortified by a city wall, of which only scant evidence survives.

In 1169 Frederick Barbarossa wrested Vignanello from the Church, including it in the imperial possessions of Viterbo, thus beginning a tortuous dispute which saw the Aldobrandeschi, Orsini and Prefects of Vico families as protagonists. The castrum returned to the Church in 1435 to be sold to the Santo Spirito Hospital in 1456 and then again in 1534 to Beatrice Farnese, after which, due to parental vicissitudes, the fiefdom became part of the dominion of the Ruspoli-Marescotti princes. In 1816 Pius VII demanded the abandonment of the government by the princes, so that Vignanello was definitively annexed to the Papal States until its fall, which occurred in 1870 with the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy.[7]