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| The castle of Torri was mentioned in the records for the first time quite late. Its foundation is presumed to date from the second half of the 13th century, as the first certain information of its existence goes back to 1289. Around 1350 it depended directly on the Holy See. Pope Urbano V granted it in feud to Buccio and Francesco, sons of Giordano Orsini, in 1368. The Orsini constructed a palace in Torri, in which they often stayed. In 1477 castles of Torri, Roccantica, Selci and Castiglione were assigned to Cardinal Catino Orsini. In 1596 Torri lost the castles of Selci and Castiglione, distrained by the congregation of barons as payments of the debts of the feudatories. The State of Torri survived till 1698 when the last feudatory Flavio Orsini died. His widow Anna De La Tremouille managed to keep the feuds for the rest of her life and when she died in 1728, Torri passed definitively to the Apostolic House. In November 1817 in consequence of the decree of Cardinal Consalvi which sanctioned definitively the new layout of the province of Sabina (divided into districts of Rieti and Poggio Mirteto), Torri with its 952 inhabitants was inserted as an autonomous municipality in the territory of Calvi and had Montasola, Rocchette with Rocchettine and Vacone under its dominion. |
