Anagni is an ancient town and comune in Latium, central Italy, in the hills east-southeast of Rome. It is famous for its connections with the papacy and for the picturesque monuments of its unspoiled historical center. It is a historical center in Ciociaria.
Anagni appears today as a small medieval town, placed on the ridge of a hill (460 meters above sea level), with small twisting streets and steep lanes everywhere. It is built inside powerful ...
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Anagni is an ancient town and comune in Latium, central Italy, in the hills east-southeast of Rome. It is famous for its connections with the papacy and for the picturesque monuments of its unspoiled historical center. It is a historical center in Ciociaria.
Anagni appears today as a small medieval town, placed on the ridge of a hill (460 meters above sea level), with small twisting streets and steep lanes everywhere. It is built inside powerful Roman boundary walls which seem to preserve, like a treasure-chest, its innumerable treasuries of art and history and its troubling modern contradictions.
Initially, the built-up area included only the acropolis (the north-east zone comprising the Cathedral, Tufoli gate and Piazza Dante) and partially defended by walls in opus quasi-quadratum (almost squared work). Under Roman domination, the map of the city changed, starting from the modification of the boundary walls. The archaic inhabited places spread out protected by the so-called Servian...
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