Tolfa

Coordinates: 42°08′59″N 11°56′12″E / 42.14972°N 11.93667°E / 42.14972; 11.93667
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Tolfa
Comune
Comune di Tolfa
Location of Tolfa
Map
Metropolitan City of Rome, in the Lazio region of central Italy; it lies to the ENE of Civitavecchia
by road.

It is the main center in the

Lake of Bracciano.[3]

History

A town of medieval origin in the orbit of

Medici, with the explicit thought that the income from this monopoly should be devoted to the Christian res publica as the infidel Turk, elated by his victories, threatened to devour Christendom.[4] Later, the monopoly in extraction of alum at Tolfa passed as a papal gift to Agostino Chigi
.

In 1530, Pope Clement VII granted the status of comune to Tolfa, which had outgrown its medieval walls. In later times, Tolfa continued to be supported by the extraction of alum. Near the mine, the workmen's village of Allumiere was built; it became an autonomous comune in 1826.

Main sights

  • Remains of the walls and of the
    Roman Republic
    .
  • Town Hall, housing a collection of Etruscan and Roman antiquities discovered nearby.
  • Church of Sant'Egidio Abate
  • Convent of the Augustinians (early 16th century), now housing the communal library and civic museum.
  • Convent of the Capuchin Order (1621).
  • Castle Rota

Film locations

  • In the TV series,
    Medici: Masters of Florence, Castle Rota is both Francesco Sforza's army camp and the village where Lorenzo finds the mercenary Ferzetti.[5]

Twin towns

Notes

  1. ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. Istat
    .
  3. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tolfa" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1052.
  4. ^ Papal brief of 17 June 1472 commissioning Domenico Albergati to treat with the Flemish cloth towns, quoted in F. Saxl, "A Marsilio Ficino Manuscript Written in Bruges in 1475, and the Alum Monopoly of the Popes" Journal of the Warburg Institute 1.1 (July 1937), pp. 61-62. The possibility of alum profits financing a crusade against the Ottomans, pressed by Pius at the Council of Mantua (1459), was no longer an active possibility in 1472.
  5. ^ "Medici Masters of Florence tv series locations: Castle of Rota".

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