Archaeological finds has demonstrated that Lanuvio existed
as inhabited nucleus already around the IX century b.C.. Its name, for someone,
came from the goat wool skin with which Giunone Sospita, was dressed. It
was in fact famous in the antiquity for the cult of this rural fertility
goddess-divinity of the earth in honor of which a temple rose with relative
sacred forest. Lanuvio it was part of the thirty people of the Latin League
that use to meet in the forest of Diana Aricina, in Nemi. Many times Lanuvio
fought against Rome and were always defeat but, in spite of everything,
it get a lot of privileges from the winner, giving back to the roman people
the privilege to participate to the cult of Giunone Sospita. It prospered
in the period of the Empire, but fall on 380 when it was sanctioned the
Christianity the religion of State. The village revived in the century XII
by the work of Benedictines monks. It passed by the Colonna hands to the
Cesarini one and then to the Cesarini-Sforza. Interesting is the walk in
the medieval village with the Colonna palace and the church
of the Collegiata, as much is the archaeological area of the Giunone
Sospita temple, placed on the Lanuvio acropolis,
today inside the villa Sforza Cesarini. It completes the tour the visit
to the Civic Museum.
Altitude 324 mt, 34km from Rome.
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