Poggio Mirteto

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”Poggio Mirteto is a comune (municipality) and former Catholic bishopric in Sabina in the Central Italian region Lazio (Latium). Administratively Poggio Mirteto is in the province of Rieti (formerly part of the province of Perugia) and geographically this municipality is about 45km northeast of Rome and about 20km southwest of Rieti.According to Giuseppe Marocco's 1833 book the name Poggio Mirteto means the "knoll with plenty of Myrtus plants" because in its territory there would be plenty of Myrtus plants (mirto in Italian and then the adjective Mirteto) and the old town was built on a knoll which in Italian is translated with the toponym Poggio.Poggio Mirteto's cathedral, formerly seat of its own bishops, became the episcopal see of the Bishop of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto.History''For ecclesiastical history, see Roman Catholic Diocese of Poggio MirtetoPoggio Mirteto was founded in the early thirteenth century in an area around some earlier small castles: previously in this area there had been some old Roman villas. Later the town became part of Papal States.On 6 and 7 July 1849 Giuseppe Garibaldi, during his retreat from Rome with about 4,000 troops and his wife Anita, stopped in Poggio Mirteto: in Poggio Mirteto's main square there is a commemorative plaque in the building where Anita, which was pregnant, stayed during these days. Continua a leggere

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