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Municipality of Casalattico in 1897

CASALATTICO Cassino electoral college. Diocese of Sora. Inhabit. 1873. Dist. km. 7 km from Atina (Capol. mandamentale).In the middle of an extraordinarily fertile territory.Products. Lots of cereals.Post. and telegraph office. Atina, dist. km. 7. Railway station. Cassino, dist.km. 24, on the Rome-Naples line. Bus service.Fairs. 10 April, 1 September (cattle) Mayor. No. Secretary. Cafolla Alfonso. PROFESSIONALS Physicians-Surgeons. Note [...]

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Municipality of Picinisco in 1897

PICINISCO Cassino electoral college. Diocese of Sora. Inhabitants. 3510. Dist. km. 14 from Atina (District capital). Surface area 3500 hectares.Above a hill between the Mollerino stream and the Melfi Riviera. Products. Scarce cereals, many pastures.Industries. Paper factory.Post office. Local telegraph office. Railway station. Cassino is 29 km. away on the Rome-Naples line. Bus service.Fairs. 19, 20 [...]

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Municipality of Villa Latina in 1897

VILLALATINA Cassino electoral college. Diocese of Montecassino. Inhabitants 1691. Dist. km. 4 from Atina (Capol. mandamentale). Surface area 487 hectares.Lying on a hill and very fertile.Products. Olives, vines, mulberries, various fruits, cereals.Uff. post. and Uff. telegr. in Atina, dist. km 4. Railway station. Cassino. dist. km 21, on the Rome-Naples line. Bus service. Mayor. Garosaro Pietro, ff.Secretary. [...]

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Municipality of Casalvieri in 1897

CASALVIERI Electoral College of Sora. Diocese of Sora. Inhabit. 4618. Dist. km. 9 from Arpino (Capol. mandamentale).In a very fertile locality, on the top of a hill with slopes covered with imposing oaks.Products. Many cereals, legumes, acorns, grapes, fruit.Uff. post. local Uff. telegr. Alvito, railway station. Roccasecca, dist. km. 18 on the Rome-Naples line. Bus service.Fairs. Third Sunday of [...]

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The Municipality of Settefrati in 1897

SETTEFRATI Electoral College of Sora. Diocese of Sora. Inhabitants. 2582. Dist. km. 13 from Alvito (Capol. mandamentale). Surface area 1853 hectares.A scirocco of Sora, lying partly on a hill, partly on a plain, in fertile soil.Products. Pastures, cattle breeding and especially many very prosperous pigs.Uff. post. locale. Telegr. office in San Donato Val di Comino, dist. km. 9. [...]

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Fontechiari, the fresco of St. Anthony Abbot

Fontechiari the fresco of St. Anthony Abbot

The 16th century fresco discovered 45 years ago in the demolished church of Sant'Antonio Abate in Fontechiari shows the rural population's request for protection from the saints. In the centre is Saint Anthony Abbot, the patron saint of animals, especially pigs, since the death of the pig meant hunger for the winter. On the left, the Madonna [...]

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The Agostini family from Fontechiari

Agostini family portrait of Fontechiari

The Agostini family was one of the most important families of the 19th century rural bourgeoisie in our territory. With the Napoleonic laws and the Unification of Italy, they acquired immense patrimonies by auctioning off ecclesiastical, state, etc. property. The progenitor was Don Giovanni Antonio D'Agostino, a ’physical surgeon“ from Casalvieri who in 1743 married Rosa Anna Simeone of twenty [...].

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Valle di Comino in the Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani (1931)

In popular usage, the name Val di Comino is used to designate a small region in northern Campania, essentially corresponding to the upper Melfa valley, almost entirely surrounded by a cloister of limestone mountains (Apennines and Sub-Apennines) except to the south-west, where a depression (350-450 m) connects this kind of basin with the territory of Sora; [...].

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The legends of the Tracciolino

Sant'Angelo in Pesco Mascolino was the first Benedictine monastic community in the Comino Valley, on the border between Casalvieri and Casalattico towards the Melfa Gorges. The monastery was abandoned about 600 years ago. It had grown to more than one hundred monks who, in the breaks between the ora et labora, hosted local women, sensitive to the [...]