Lived
sin from the times of the preistoria, Guarcino must its name to the abundance
of the oaks wood.
For some students, but,
the toponimo it would derive from the belongings of the territory of Guarcino
to the family of roman consul Lucio Betileno Varo, zone of I launch, that is
Several coenum, Varcenum, Guarcenum.
Risen like shelter for
the shepherds of the zone, Guarcino made part of the Ernica Confederation,
beyond to the geographic location of strategic importance for the passage in
goes them of the Aniene was known like the “full water place”.
To the time of the
Roman in Guarcino they had been erected the templi of Mars and of Apollo who,
with the advent of it was Christian they came replaced with the churches
dedicated to the Madonna and Saint Michele Arcangelo. The isolation of the
places attracted many hermits. In its travel from Subiaco to Montecassino,
Saint Benedict crossed Guarcino sure and had contacts with the hermits who
lived in the coves of the zone.
Sant'Agnello, patron of
the citizen, been born to Naples around to the 535, came as hermit in goes
them of the Thing, after one life of prayer and charity in its city born them
and the Gargano, in Puglia. It lived for seven years in a cove to 800 meters
of altitude, died to the age of 67 years and from XV the century it was
proclamato protecting of the citizen.
Subordinate to the
barbaric invasions, in the 762 city entrusted itself to the protection of the
Church and in 1180 she was granted in feudo from Pope Alexander III to
Graziano di Belmonte, but in 1263 Pope Urbano IV revocò such concession.
Fortified with one
poderosa town-walls building, Guarcino was victim of the contese between
Papacy and Empire, like testifies the episode that the young person guarcinese
Malpensa saw to gain in duel a soldier of the invading army of Enrico VI . In
the course of the centuries the country was in continuous fight with the
common neighbors.
Around to 1200 it had
to face with Anticoli for the possession of the territory of Pratalonga.
In 1240 it endured I
besiege of the Alatrensi that destroyed three hundred houses, while in the
1336 it formed an alliance with the common ones limitrofi against Ferentino.
Granted in feudo in
1378 Conti, powerful Anagnina family, under the pontificato one of Martino V
was assigned to i Column, than they governed it until the 1431, when of
perdettero possession for being come down in fight against Pope Eugene IV.
Place under the control
of the Papal State, Guarcino was besieged from the Spanish army to the
continuation of Ferdinand Alvarez di Toledo, duce of Alba and Vicerè of
Naples, and in 1656 it was contagiato from the bubbonica plague.
After to have known the
invasion of the French army of the Revolution of seven hundred aim and the sad
phenomenon of brigandage, during the second world war, the country was
besieged from the Germans who could here better control the passage of the
armies and the refueling.
Guarcino still
introduces the original medieval structure. One town-walls
sturdy building with nine
towers and three towers, four
doors of access and a ditch around to it.
In the medieval part of
the town-walls building the large one arched
to sixth acute one can be admired that support the ancient palace of
Tomassi cardinal; the historical
center is still particularly integral, with the characteristic medieval,
portali constructions, double lancet window windows, alive walls to stone.The
church of Saint Nicholas, built
up in the WAYS century on the hill where the tempio rose of Apollo, came
completely reconstructed in 1754, baroque late style. Conserve to its inside
the representing burlap “the Visitazione” of the school of the Cavalier d'
Arpino; burlaps of the Ranuccini of century XVIII and other pittoriche works
of authors ignoti. The church of Saint
Michele Arcangelo is found to the northern apex of the lived one, where
the tempio rose of Mars. The structure originates them to only navata came
adapted in 1587, for being able to you to accommodate the monache Benedictine,
in the contiguous Patrasso palace. The
church and the monastero of Saint Luca, on the massive montuoso over Filette,
build up to you in century XI, accommodated i monaci Benedictines, than they
abandoned them in XVI the century. The main characteristic of the citizen,
located in the heart of the Ernici mounts, is that one to possess a territory
of great naturalistic importance; to its shoulders in fact, the equipped
sciistica station of six systems is raised majestic massive of rinomata Campocatino
of gone back and perfectly connected with line bus, with summits that exceed
the 2000 meters, and from which the wonderful panorama is enjoyed the low
Lazio until the mar Tyrrhenian, comprised the Pontine islands.
On
those sources the legions were cured roman
A long history
`' centuries, that one of Source Filette and Saint Source Luca, the two purest
oligominerali waters that gush out respective one to 900, the other to 800
meters above sea level, in the common one of Guarcino. Enough to think that
Filette in 1894 it came already bottled and distributed: still before Saint
Pellegrino, than movements instead the first `steps' in 1899. Between several
the documents that of it testify the antiquity, laughed them to 1899 one of
first doctor-scientific manifestos on an Italian mineral water, that he was
compiled from Vittorio Davoli, then sanitary director of the source.
But already in
the 50 after Christ, a Latin author - Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella -
extolled waters of Guarcino, where the legions were stopped roman to cure the
wounds of the campaigns in East: “East in Guarcino Campaniae, fluens aqua
and montibus oriunda, salubrita to you corporis accomodatissima”. A “jump'
in the future in order to arrive to the albori of XX the century, when Filette
- prerunning widely the modern times - bottled the water smooth and gassata
and a range of drinks in known mineral water in all the Italy center and then
exported with succeeding until to 1976. And' towards the end of 1999 that
FonteItalia limited liability company riattivato the source for superior in
quality immettere newly on the market a water. Antichi born them also for
SanLuca Source, whose source is found in the park of omonima the house of
prayer, in Goes them of the Lamb. From the monography “History of the
Monastero and Convento di SanLuca”, conserved near the historical archives
of the Common one of Guarcino, finds that the ancient Monastero was founded
from the Saint patriarch Benedict to its long passage the distance that
carried the Saint from Subiaco until Monte Cassino. From the 520 to the 528
the Monastero was constructed from follows us of the Saint who inhabited it
for beyond seven centuries, until 1256, when then yielded to the Monache
Benedictine of Alatri that you remained until 1587. In 1962 the property
passed to the Congregation of the Daughters of the Madonna of the Divine Love
who, as a result of the restorations carry out you from 1980 to the 1992 from
the Soprintendenza to the Assets Acclimatize them AA.AA of the Lazio, have
used the complex of the Monastero after House of Prayer and acceptance: just
in that period the old “source of the Monache” was recovered
