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| On the bases of recent documents it is possible to reconstruct, at least approximately, the history of Poggio Mirteto. Nowadays Poggio Mirteto is situated on a hill surrounded by flourishing fields with millenary olive trees, and grapevines and where times ago also corns were rippling. However, its development through centuries has been long and difficult. The oldest houses date back to 488. A certain locality called Mirtetum was mentioned in that same year in ?Chronicon farfense?. The already large Poggio Mirteto was furthermore expanded during 400?s, but the hegemony of the sabine centre, situated along the banks of Tiber, increased only thanks to the Farnese dominion on Farfa. Together with an increasement of political influence new religious structures emerged in the urban landscape, which, figuratively, marked that moment of increased prestige. |
