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CORNETO TARQUINIA (anc. Tarquinii)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 173 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CORNETO TARQUINIA (anc. Tarquinii) , a town of Italy, in the province of Rome, 62 m. N.W. by rail from the town of Rome, 490 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901) 5273. Corneto probably arose after the ancient town had been destroyed by the Saracens. In the loth
century
  it began to acquire importance, and for some time was an independent commune. It is picturesquely situated, and commands a fine view. It possesses medieval fortifications, and no less than twenty-five towers are still
standing
  in various parts of the town, which thus has a remarkably medieval
appearance
 . The castle on the N. contains the Romanesque
church
  of S. Maria in Castello, begun in 1121, with a fine portal of 1143, a ciborium of 1168 and a pulpit of 1209, both in " cosmatesque "
work
 : the' pavement in
marble
  mosaic also is fine. There are several other Romanesque and
Gothic
  churches in the town more or less restored. The oldest parts of the Palazzo Comunale date from about Imo. The
Gothic
  Palazzo Vitelleschi (1439) contains remarkably
rich
  windows. The municipal museum (which is to be transferred to this palace) and the Palazzo Bruschi, contain fine collections of
Etruscan
  antiquities from the tombs of Tarquinii. Four miles to the S.W. is the
Porto
  Clementino (perhaps the ancient Graviscae, the port of Tarquinii), with government saltworks, in which convicts are employed. '
See L. Dasti, Notizie storiche archeologiche di Tarquinia e Corneto (Rome, 1878) ; for the cemeteries, Notizie degli Scavi, 1906, 1907.


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