Sacrofano is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium , located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Rome . Located near the Monti Sabatini , at the feet of an extinct volcano, it is included in the Regional Park of Veii .
4-465: Sacrofano borders the following municipalities: Campagnano di Roma , Castelnuovo di Porto , Formello , Magliano Romano , Riano , Rome . They were originally part of the territory of the Etruscan city of Veii . Later it was home to numerous Roman villas, which were abandoned in the 5th-6th centuries. A fundus Scrofanum is mentioned for the first time in 780. A castle was built here probably in
8-811: A station on the Roma-Civitacastellana-Viterbo regional railway. It can be reached by car from Rome in c. 20 minutes through the Via Flaminia and the Via Sacrofanese. This Lazio location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Campagnano di Roma Campagnano di Roma is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium , located about 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of Rome . It
12-740: The 10th-11th century; in the 13th century it was a possession of the Prefetti di Vico , and later of the Savelli and the Orsini , who acquired it under the reign of Pope Gregory XI (1370–1377). Apart a short conquest by Cesare Borgia (1503–1516), they kept Sacrofano for nearly three centuries: in 1560 it was included in the Duchy of Bracciano . In 1662 the Orsini ceded it to the Chigi family . Sacrofano has
16-595: Was first mentioned in 1076, having been carved out of the great estate assembled on the Roman pattern by Pope Adrian I , ca. 780, his Domusculta Capracorum . In medieval times, Campagnano di Roma was on the via Francigena . Here, Sigeric , Archbishop of Canterbury, sojourned on his return journey from Rome about 990. Campagnano di Roma borders the following municipalities: Anguillara Sabazia , Formello , Magliano Romano , Mazzano Romano , Nepi , Rome , Sacrofano , Trevignano Romano . The Archaeological Park of Veii
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