Cantalupo in Sabina

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Cantalupo in Sabina
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Comune di Cantalupo in Sabina
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Cantalupo in Sabina
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Cantalupo in Sabina
Cantalupo in Sabina (Lazio)
Coordinates: 42°18′N12°39′E / 42.300°N 12.650°E / 42.300; 12.650
Country Italy
Region Lazio
Province Rieti (RI)
Government
 • MayorPaolo Rinalduzzi (since May 2014)
Area
[1]
 • Total10 km2 (4 sq mi)
Elevation
297 m (974 ft)
Population
 (2001) [2]
 • Total1,621
 • Density160/km2 (420/sq mi)
Demonym Cantalupani
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
02040
Dialing code 0765
Patron saintSt. Blaise
Saint dayFebruary 3
Website Official website

Cantalupo in Sabina (Sabino: Candalupu) is a town and comune in the province of Rieti, on the Sabine Hills of Lazio. It is famous as the reputed origin of the melon called a cantaloupe melon.

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It is one of several Italian comuni named "Cantalupo" ("song of the wolf" or "howl of the wolf" or literally "sings wolf") and it seems that these place names are due to an elevated presence of wolves at the time of their naming (probably because wolves could be heard howling, but this etymology is actually disputed nowadays).

History

Cantalupo in Imperial Roman times housed a scattering of villas, one belonging to the Tullii, the family of the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, but in the Migrations period the inhabitants were protected by a walled castle at the high point of a rocky spur, which was in possession of the counts of Cuneo. Cantalupo was not mentioned however, until an 11th-century register reported the walled village as a possession of the abbots of Farfa. Though in 1278 the commune's representatives swore fealty to the Papacy, its borderlands position in the marches of Lazio (governed from Rome) and Umbria, Cantalupo passed from one feudatory lord to another.

The rocca commanding the town was expanded into a residence for the counts of Sant'Eustachio in the 13th and 14th centuries, and then passed to the Savelli family in the 15th century before it was further enlarged by a series of successive holders of the feodo. The site is now privately owned. [3]

In the Papal States, Cantalupo was governed by a direct representative of the Apostolic Camera.

Among the landmark buildings is the baroque church of Santa Maria Assunta in Cielo.

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References

  1. ↑ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. ↑ Comune of Cantalupo in Sabina.


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