Acuto - Italy

Acuto (FR)

Lazio (Italy)

Acuto seat in the house of the foundation of the Precious Blood Sisters of Adoration, order spread throughout the Catholic world since 1834, by the Blessed Maria de Matthias.
The town has ancient origins, with pre-Roman ruins.
The birth of an urban settlement dating back to 455 AD, when the first era of barbarian invasions (Geiseric, king of the Vandals), many citizens of Anagni took refuge on a nearby mountain, difficult to cross.
The country was then assigned to the Bishop of Anagni, said Treble dominus until the birth of new Italian State (1861).
Remarkable entrance of the ancient, the beautiful medieval castle, with large and robust portal Tower roundabout.
The territory is completely mountainous, there are two quarries (both abandoned), whose graniticità has been exploited for the construction of most houses and portals admired for their elegance and robustness.
Features are the narrow alleys formed by well-structured.
Stands out among them Gaudente Alley, the center of the old country, which retains almost intact medieval buildings with vaulted arches and terraces.
Beside the castle is the beautiful Church of Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral of the Bishop of Anagni, renewed in the nineteenth century, but high-medieval origin.
Was found in the basement of the well known Lady Hawkwood, wooden statue of the thirteenth century, which is a dedicated room in the National Museum of Palazzo Venezia in Rome.
Preserved interesting frescoes from the fourteenth century Church of St. Peter, the Parish of St. Roch and Sebastian, and the rustic La Maddalena, with the remains of an ancient leper colony.