Foglia (Magliano Sabina)

Foglia
Frazione
Coordinates: 42°19′53″N 12°28′26″E / 42.33129°N 12.47393°E / 42.33129; 12.47393
CountryItaly
RegionLazio
ProvinceRieti
ComuneMagliano Sabina
Elevation
85 m (279 ft)
Population
 (2001)Stat
 • Total
44
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)

Foglia is a frazione of the Italian comune of Magliano Sabina, in the province of Rieti, Lazio.[1][2]

Geography

Foglia is located on a tuff plateau in the Tiber Valley, between the mouth of the Campana creek [it] to the north and the Aia stream [it] to the south, almost opposite the mouth of the Treja [it] river on the Tiber.

History

Prehistory - archaic era

The town sits close to an ancient ford of the Tiber where it joins the Tiber Valley between Treja and Aia valley an prehistory-archaic way to Archaeological area of Poggio Sommavilla and Falerii Veteres. Inside the town, on the side of the Autostrada del Sole, and above what remains of a necropolis created in the tuff plateau on which the town itself stands, is an inscription in the Faliscan alphabet where a dictus was found. It is located on a slab of local sandstone. The letters are 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) in height, except the sigma which is 4 centimetres (1.6 in) and the V sign which is 3 centimetres (1.2 in).[3][4]

Contemporary

In 1817 Foglia was an autonomous municipality; it was then annexed from 1827 to 1853 to the municipality of Collevecchio and then, from 1853, to the municipality of Magliano Sabina, of which it is still a frazione.[5]

Places of interest

  • Inscription in Faliscan language, rock necropolis of Foglia
    Inscription in Faliscan language, rock necropolis of Foglia
  • Flaminia Verga, Archaeological map, Florence 2006
    Flaminia Verga, Archaeological map, Florence 2006
  • Inscription in Faliscan language on sandstone, removed from the rock necropolis of Foglia, in the Tiber Valley.
    Inscription in Faliscan language on sandstone, removed from the rock necropolis of Foglia, in the Tiber Valley.

Further reading

  • Giovannandrea, Riccardo Di; Bergamaschi, Maria Temide (15 March 2023). "Bartolomeo d'Alviano e Orsina Orsini: un ignoto contratto matrimoniale come suggello tra famiglie di condottieri". Anales de la Universidad de Alicante. Historia Medieval (in Italian) (24): 181–206. doi:10.14198/medieval.23283. hdl:10045/132825. Retrieved 25 January 2024.

See also

References

  1. ^ "La Frazione di Foglia". comune.maglianosabina.ri.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Foglia - Magliano Sabina" (in Italian). Visit Lazio. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  3. ^ Firmani, art. cit. in QuadAEI 3, 1979, pp. 118–119, fig 2
  4. ^ Gigli, Stefania Quilici (1987). "Scali e traghetti sul Tevere in epoca arcaica, in Il Tevere e le altre vie d'acqua del Lazio antico". Quaderni del Centro di Studio per l'Archeologia Etrusco-italica (in Italian): 73.
  5. ^ "Comune di Foglia". beniculturali.it.
  6. ^ "Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta". Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  7. ^ Francesco Paolo Sperandio (1790). Sabina sagra e profana antica e moderna. nella stamperia di Giovanni Zempel. p. 150.
  8. ^ "Foglia". I Borghi più Belli d'Italia (in Italian). 22 February 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
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