Foglia (Magliano Sabina)

Foglia is a frazione of the Italian comune of Magliano Sabina, in the province of Rieti, Lazio.^[1][2]

Foglia
Frazione
Coordinates: 42.33129°N 12.47393°E / 42.33129; 12.47393
Country	Italy
Region	Lazio
Province	Rieti
Comune	Magliano Sabina
Elevation	85 m (279 ft)
Population  (2001)Stat
• Total	44
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)

Geography

Foglia is located on a tuff plateau in the Tiber Valley, between the mouth of the Campana creek [it] to the north and the Aia stream [it] to the south, almost opposite the mouth of the Treja [it] river on the Tiber.

History

Prehistory - archaic era

The town sits close to an ancient ford of the Tiber where it joins the Tiber Valley between Treja and Aia valley an prehistory-archaic way to Archaeological area of Poggio Sommavilla and Falerii Veteres. Inside the town, on the side of the Autostrada del Sole, and above what remains of a necropolis created in the tuff plateau on which the town itself stands, is an inscription in the Faliscan alphabet where a dictus was found. It is located on a slab of local sandstone. The letters are 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) in height, except the sigma which is 4 centimetres (1.6 in) and the V sign which is 3 centimetres (1.2 in).^[3][4]

Contemporary

In 1817 Foglia was an autonomous municipality; it was then annexed from 1827 to 1853 to the municipality of Collevecchio and then, from 1853, to the municipality of Magliano Sabina, of which it is still a frazione.^[5]

Places of interest

• Church of Santa Serena, or Santa Maria Assunta, believed by local tradition to be the place of retreat of Serena of Rome, wife of the Roman emperor Diocletian; it was rebuilt in 1579. It has a copy of the Madonna del Rosario by Sebastiano Conca.^[6][7]
• Foglia is part of the I Borghi più belli d'Italia.^[8]

Gallery

• 
  Inscription in Faliscan language, rock necropolis of Foglia
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  Flaminia Verga, Archaeological map, Florence 2006
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  Inscription in Faliscan language on sandstone, removed from the rock necropolis of Foglia, in the Tiber Valley.

Further reading

• Giovannandrea, Riccardo Di; Bergamaschi, Maria Temide (15 March 2023). "Bartolomeo d'Alviano e Orsina Orsini: un ignoto contratto matrimoniale come suggello tra famiglie di condottieri". Anales de la Universidad de Alicante. Historia Medieval (in Italian) (24): 181–206. doi:10.14198/medieval.23283. hdl:10045/132825. Retrieved 25 January 2024.

See also

• Italy portal

• Tiber Valley
• Grappignano [it]
• Archaeological area of Poggio Sommavilla

References

1. "La Frazione di Foglia". comune.maglianosabina.ri.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
2. "Foglia - Magliano Sabina" (in Italian). Visit Lazio. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
3. Firmani, art. cit. in QuadAEI 3, 1979, pp. 118–119, fig 2
4. Gigli, Stefania Quilici (1987). "Scali e traghetti sul Tevere in epoca arcaica, in Il Tevere e le altre vie d'acqua del Lazio antico". Quaderni del Centro di Studio per l'Archeologia Etrusco-italica (in Italian): 73.
5. "Comune di Foglia". beniculturali.it.
6. "Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta". Retrieved 17 May 2023.
7. Francesco Paolo Sperandio (1790). Sabina sagra e profana antica e moderna. nella stamperia di Giovanni Zempel. p. 150.
8. "Foglia". I Borghi più Belli d'Italia (in Italian). 22 February 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

External links

• FAI Foglia
• "Foglia". Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2024.