Casalattico (

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'' (municipality) in the

Province of Frosinone The Province of Frosinone ( it, Provincia di Frosinone) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy, with 91 ''comuni'' (singular: ''comune''; see Comuni of the Province of Frosinone). Its capital is the city of Frosinone. It has an area of ...

in the

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region of

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. The village is located about southeast of

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and about east of

Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the ...

. It is home to a summer Irish festival celebrating the local families that moved to Ireland with the twinning of the town with

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in Co kildare Ireland. The festival hosts Irish folk music and local artists. The nearby

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river, a tributary of the

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, flows in the commune. The town houses the local commune offices and postal services. The commune is bounded by the communes of Atina and

Casalvieri Casalvieri (Campanian: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about southeast of Rome and about east of Frosinone. Casalvieri borders the following municipalities: Alvito, Arpino, Ati ...

on one side and

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and Terelle,

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, and

Santopadre Santopadre is a small town and ''comune'' in the province of Frosinone, Lazio region of Italy. It served by its station on the Avezzano-Roccasecca Roccasecca is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Frosinone, in the Lazio region of centr ...

on the other. Casalattico is surrounded by mountains reaching up to 1700 meters.

History

The Roman entrepreneur and banker

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is believed to have had a villa in what is now the ''frazione'' of Montattico. In 1944, during the World War II, largo San Nazario, of the Casalattico commune was the site of a German forward Emergency Hospital confiscated from the Fusco family owners of the period after the war subsequently reclaimed by the present owners. People from the Monforte and Casalattico area were transported by the occupation German military forces to the Concentration camp at Cesano. At the end of hostilities in 1945 in the nearby valley towns the level of destruction was huge, leading to a large immigration wave.

Main sights

The Casalattico area includes the medieval ruins of the ancient

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monastery of Sant'Angelo in Pesco Mascolino (780 AD), and an earlier example of a

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on the

river. Other Roman remains are found in the archaeological site of San Nazario. The centre Piazza housese an example of a

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-style tower dating from 1200 AD. The hilltop town has no moat and is accessible by one winding access road passing the graveyard to the left on approach.

References

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