The City of Sigillo |
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From Umbrian origins, it was placed between todays Sigillo and Villa Scirca along the Consulare Flaminia road, suffering for centuries all invasions of them Barbarians which descended to Rome along this road. "Suillum" was town council of the sixth Augustea and Plinio region the old remembers the inhabitants. Devastated by Totila, during the Gothic-Byzantine war (552), it was rebuild by the Longobardics and subjected to the Dukedom of Spoleto. At the end of the Xth century it was granted in feud by Ottone IIIrd to Count Lupo from Nocera, called Vico di Monaldo. Heavily damaged by Federico lind in 1237, was rebuild and amplified by Perugia in 1274. Plundered by the Montefeltros in 1388, Biordo passed it to the Church States in 1397. In the XVth century it obtains own statutes which were amplified and confirmed in 1616, how the book of the statutes of the "Magnificant community of the land of Sigillo", preserved in the communal archives, testify. |
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