San Biagio is a medieval

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Orte Orte is a town, ''comune'', former Catholic bishopric and Latin titular see in the province of Viterbo, in the central Italian region of Lazio, located about north of Rome and about east of Viterbo. Geography Orte is situated in the Tiber vall ...

in the province of Viterbo, region of Lazio,

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History

The neighborhood was named after the church. An inscription in its stone bell-tower is dated 1253. In 1352, The church and its property were assigned to the Order of Hospitallers of Santo Spirito in Saxia. They operated an adjacent hospital with remained open until 1613, when the property was transferred to a confraternity, the ''Congregazione dell’Annunziata''. In 1754, the former Romanesque structure was nearly razed by a fire, and rebuilt in a sober Neoclassic style.Comune of Orte, tourist information.
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