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LANCIANO (anc. Anxanum)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 153 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LANCIANO (anc. Anxanum) , a town and episcopal see of the Abruzzi, Italy, in the province of Chieti, situated on three hills, 984 ft. above sea-level, about 8 m. from the Adriatic
coast
  and 12 m. S.E. of Chieti. Pop. (1901) 7642 (town), 18,316 (commune). It has a railway station on the
coast
  railway, 19 M. S.E. of Castellammare Adriatico. It has broad, regular streets, and several fine buildings. The
cathedral
 , an imposing structure with a fine clock-tower of 1619, is built upon bridges of brickwork, dating perhaps from the Roman period (though the inscription attributing the
work
  to Diocletian is a forgery), that span the gorge of the Feltrino, and is dedicated to S. Maria del Ponte, Our Lady of the
Bridge
 . The
Gothic
  church of S. Maria
Maggiore
 
dates
  from 1227 and has a fine facade, with a portal of 1317 by a local sculptor. The processional
cross
  by the silversmith Nicola di Guardiagrele (1422) is very beautiful. In S. Nicola is a fine reliquary of 1445 by Nicola di Francavilla. The church of the Annunziata has a good rose window of 1362. The
industries
  of the town, famous in the middle ages, have declined. Anxanum belonged originally to the tribe of the Frentani and later became a municipium. It lay on the ancient highroad,
which abandoned the coast at Ortona ro m. to the N. and returned to it at Histonium (Vasto). Remains of a Roman theatre exist under the
bishop
 's palace.
See V. Bindi, Monumentidegli Abruzzi (Naples, 1889, 690 sqq.), and for discoveries in the neighbourhood see A. de Nino in Notizie degli scavi (1884), 431. (T. As.)


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