The City of Cascia |
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Cascia is placed in the most mountainous area of Umbria, from probable Umbrian origins it was inhabited by the Romans. Ancient Roman municipality "Carsula", destroyed by an earthquake, it was rebuild with the actual name and in 553 it was besieged and conquered by the Byzantine Narsete. Included in the Longobardic Dukedom of Spoleto, in the Xth century, it became an independent Republic which coined its own currency. From Ghibelline tendency, it was favourable to the emperor, and for this compel led to long wars with Spoleto and the Church. Under the seigniory of Trinci from Foligno, it was occupied by Federico lind in 1228, de vastated by an earthquake in 1300, it was rebuild and fortified. In 1516 it was again besieged and conquered, its fortress was destroyed and therefore definitively subjected. Religious touring centre, Cascia is tied to the name of S. Rita. In 1381, near Roccaporena, was Marherita born, who after her husbands death, killed by the Casciani, to avoid the revenge of her children, decided to interrupt the chain of delicts and vengeances, she forgave her own countryman. For this reason, Rita, still young, decides to enter in the S. Maria Maddalena Agostinian monastery, where she died on the 22nd may 1447 as an Agostinian nun. |
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