Vignanello, in the central area and close to the main services, we offer for sale an apartment comprising entrance hall, lounge with balcony, kitchen, two bedrooms and bathroom.
Ideal as an investment or as a first home
For more information 0761/1900314 soriano@bonifazi. it
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 the Cenciano diruto area, where Homo Sapiens Sapiens easily found shelter in the naturally formed tuff caves present in the whole town (among the best known by the villagers are the "cross cave" and the so-called "a cave")
Thanks to the awareness and investments of Prince Alessandro Ruspoli, 7th prince of Cerveteri, in the first twenty years of the twentieth century, archaeological excavations were carried out by the Superintendence of Antiquities, which led to the identification, in the territory of present-day Vignanello, of an appreciable Faliscan center (8th – 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 transformed into a castrum, that is, into a city nucleus fortified by a city wall, of which only scant evidence survives.--3a91cc724451bf30fab865e9ad93dfa7!