The City of Passignano sul Trasimeno |
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Ancient hamlet of Roman - Etruscan fishers. In the middleages two towers with ogival gates were build to keep watch over the primitive village, on top of a costly rock and stil today protected by the rests of ancient walIs. Passignano had always been from great importance because it is situated on the compulsory passage between Umbria and Toscana, and for this strategic position, it underwent numerous plunderings, assaults and destructions in the past epochs. In 217 b.C., the promontory on which the village arises was useful to Hannibal to bar the road to the troops of consul Caio Flaminio, in retreat after the defeat in the battle of Trasimeno. In 917, the emperor Berengario gave it in feud to marquis Uguccione del Monte. Subjected to Perugia it was many times ravaged in the fights between Perugia, Arezzo and Florenz. Fenced with walls, it was under the seignory of the Baglioni until 1520 and therefore of the Oddi and the Della Corgna, who in 1643 ceded it to the Grand Duke from Toscana, for centuries, Passignano continued being a little hamlet of fishers. In 1904, thanks to the engagement of doctor Grifi, native passignanese personage, the first partnership of navigation on the Trasimeno has been formed, which began to assure the connections with the other villages of the lake and the Maggiore and Polvese isles. From 1916 to 1922, Passignano gave hospitality to the first flying school for seaplanes of the Regio Italian army, which gratuated the majority of pilots protagonists of the flight across the Atlantic in 1931. From great touring importance, the Trasimeno is for extension the fourth in Italy and the biggest of peninsular Italy, having a surface of about 124 square kilometres. Three little islands are comprised in it: Polvese isle (the largest), Maggiore isle and Minore isle which, together, don't reach the surface of one square kilometre. |
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