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'' of the Italian capital city,

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. It is identified by the initials Z. LI and falls within the boundaries of

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. The name ''La Storta'' ("the curve"; literally ''twisted'' or ''bent'') refers to a series of curves that the Via Cassia makes through the settlement.

History

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'' on the ''Via Francigena''

During the Middle Ages the locality was positioned along the '' Via Francigena,'' and was specifically mentioned as being a stop on the itinerary of

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during his journey to Rome to accept the

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as archbishop of Canterbury. The surviving account of his journey refers to La Storta as 'Submansio''''Joannis VIIII,'' the first stop outside of the city of Rome. The stop was also referred to as San Giovanni in Nono ( la, Sanctus Ioannes in Nono), since the way station was constructed next to a church dedicated to Saint John, and positioned at the nine-mile marker from the start of the Via Cassia.

Vision of Saint Ignatius

In November 1537,

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was traveling the Via Cassia towards Rome, accompanied by

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and

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. The group paused at a small church in La Storta to pray. It was there that Ignatius is reported to have received a vision of God the Father and Christ holding the cross. Ignatius would later report that the Father had "given him ... to be henceforward consecrated wholly to His service," and Christ spoke the words ''Ego tibi Romae propitius ero'' ("I will be favorable to you in Rome"). The meaning of the sentence was not immediately clear to Ignatius, who thought it could mean that the three might be martyred at Rome.

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instead gave him a very friendly reception. The location of the apparition is memorialized today with a small chapel dedicated to Saint Ignatius in the ''Piazza della Visione'' ("Square of the Vision"). The site of the vision was a place of pilgrimage from the early days of the

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, but the current form of the chapel was achieved only in the year 1700, when it was restored and decorated by the

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. The community celebrates the vision with its own feast day, the Feast of the Vision of Saint Ignatius. (The feast day is not, however, an ancient tradition, having been celebrated for the first time in 2011.) The feast is celebrated on the second Sunday of November, and is marked by processions, bands, and a reenactment of the vision.

La Storta Massacre

On June 4, 1944, the Nazis, who were fleeing from Rome after its liberation, carried out the massacre of fourteen prisoners in the community. Twelve of the fourteen were Italians, including the

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ist Bruno Buozzi; the other two were a

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and the

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John Armstrong. The German soldiers were moving out in a column of vehicles during the night of June 3 to June 4, attempting to escape the

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advance on the city, and executed the prisoners on the grounds of the Grazioli estate in the country, a forested area down the Via Cassia from La Storta. It is not known who issued the order.

Ecclesiastical territory

La Storta is the seat of the bishop of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Porto-Santa Rufina, the territory of which stretches from the GRA to the

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. The Cathedral of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary ( it, Cattedrale dei Sacri Cuori di Gesù e Maria) is located in La Storta. The construction of the present-day cathedral building was abandoned in 1926, having been a project of a German Jesuit, Father Leopoldo Fonck, who intended the church to be dedicated to

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. Construction was suspended, however, and the building was not completed until

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took a personal interest and raised funds from sources including the

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. The new cathedral was dedicated on March 25, 1950, hosted a diocesan

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in August 1957, and was visited by

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on October 27 of the same year. In 1990, construction of a diocesan

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building was completed nearby.

Geography

The territory of La Storta includes the urban zone 20H ''La Storta'' and part of the urban zone 19G ''Castelluccia''. It also includes the locality of Pian Saccoccia (''piano di zona B49''): here is located an unauthorized settlement for which the municipality approved a restoration plan.

Boundaries

The zone borders, to the north, with ''Zona'' Cesano (Z. LII), from which is separated by the Rio Galeria and by Via di Baccanello, up to Via Cassia. Eastward, it borders with ''Zona'' Isola Farnese (Z. LV), whose border is marked by the stretch of Via Cassia between Via di Baccanello and Via Isola Farnese, by Via Isola Farnese itself, by the countryside up to Via Prato della Corte and by Via Prato della Corte up to the

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, the by the stream itself To the east, La Storta also borders with ''Zona'' La Giustiniana (Z. LIV), whose border is outlined by the Cremera, by Via Anna Foà, by the countryside up to Via Giacomo Andreassi, then by Via Cassia and Via Trionfale, up to the GRA. To the south, the zone borders with ''Zona'' Ottavia (Z. L), from which is separated by the stretch of the GRA between Via Trionfale and Via Cogliate. Southward, La Storta also borders with ''Zona''

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(Z. XLVIII), whose border is outlined by the countryside between Via Cogliate and Via della Storta, by a stretch of Via della Storta itself, then by the countryside up to the Rio Galeria and by the stream itself. Westward, La Storta borders with ''Zona'' Santa Maria di Galeria (Z. XLIX), from which is separated by the Rio Galeria, up to Via Braccianese.

Odonymy

For the most part, odonyms of La Storta refers to Italian playwrights and theatre directors. In the southern part of the zone, some streets are named after cardinals, saints and religious benefactors. Streets in the locality of Pian Saccoccia are mainly named after prominent publishers. Odonyms of the zone can be categorized as follows: * Benefactors, e.g. Via

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, Via Giacomo Cusmano, Via Nicola Mazza; * Cardinals, e.g. Via Cardinale

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, Via Cardinale

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, Via Cardinale

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, Via Cardinale Mario Nasalli Rocca, Via Cardinale

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; * Directors, e.g. Via

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, Via Remigio Paone; * Local toponyms, e.g. Via di Baccanello, Via del Casale della Castelluccia, Via del Casale di San Nicola, Via del Fosso dell'Olgiata, Via del Fosso Piordo, Via dell'Olgiatella, Via Pian Saccoccia, Via della Storta, Via della Torre delle Cornacchie, Via della Torre di Spizzichino; * Playwrights, e.g. Via

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, Via

Francesco Albergati Capacelli Francesco Albergati Capacelli (19 April 1728 – 16 March 1804) was an Italian writer and playwright. Albergati was born in Bologna, where he was a marquess and senator and an important administrator. He led a stormy personal life and was ...

, Via

Giambattista Andreini Giambattista Andreini (9 February 1576 – 7 June 1654) was an Italian actor and the most important Italian playwright of the 17th century. Life Born in Florence to stage stars Isabella Andreini and Francesco Andreini, he had a great success ...

, Via

Giovanni Barrella Giovanni Barrella (30 November 1884 – 23 September 1967) was an Italian film actor, writer and painter. Biography Barrella was born in Milan. His father was a major in the Napoleonic Army. Barrella studied Fine Arts. He worked for Teatro Arge ...

, Via

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, Via

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on the Italian Encyclopedia

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, Viale Roberto Lerici, Via

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, Via

Antonio Petito Antonio Petito (22 June 1822, in Naples – 24 March 1876) was an Italian stage actor and playwright. He was a notable Pulcinella performer, and an important figure of Neapolitan theater in the 19th century. Petito was the son of another Pulcin ...

, Via

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, Largo Giorgio Prosperi, Via Annibale Ruccello, Via

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, Via Vincenzo Tieri, Largo Cesare Vico Lodovici, Via

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; * Partisans and war heroes, e.g. Via Carlo Del Papa, Via Amilcare Rossi, Via Luigi Scapuzzi, Via Silvio Solimano, Via Augusto Ugolini, Via

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; * Publishers, e.g. Via

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, Via Romolo Lozzi, Via

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, Via Antonio Zaroto; * Saints, e.g. Via

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, Largo Padre Pio da Pietrelcina, Via

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Places of interest

Civil buildings

* Castle of Castelluccia, in Via Carlo Cavina. A 16th-century farmstead. :it was built on the ruins of a Roman villa, dating back to the Imperial age, and annexed a 13th-century tower. * Casali di San Nicola (near the Acquaviva estate), in Via del Casale di San Nicola. 16th-century farmstead. * Villa Incisa della Rocchetta, in Strada G (within the Olgiata residential area). 16th-century villa. :formerly, it was the ''casino di caccia'' (hunting lodge) of the Olgiata estate. * Nymphaeum, near the ''Casino di caccia'' of the Acquaviva estate, in Via del Casale di Acquaviva. 16th-century fountain. * Villa Bertolami, in Via Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini. 17th-century farmstead. * Secondary farmhouse of the Acquaviva estate, in Via del Casale di San Nicola. 17th-century farmstead. * Casale della Posta Vecchia, in Piazza della Visione. 19th-century farmstead.

Religious buildings

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* Chapel of the Vision of Saint Ignatius, in Piazza della Visione. 17th-century chapel. * Cattedrale dei Sacri Cuori di Gesù e Maria, seat of the

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, in Via del Cenacolo. 20th-century church (1950–56).

Military buildings

* Santa Rosa military district, the seat of the CINCNAV * Torre delle Cornacchie, in Via Cassia. 11th-century tower. * Torre di Spizzichino, in Via Cassia. Medieval tower.

Education

The settlement is home to

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, founded in 1958.

Notes and references

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History

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Vision of Saint Ignatius

La Storta Massacre

Ecclesiastical territory

Geography

Boundaries

Odonymy

Places of interest

Civil buildings

Religious buildings

Military buildings

Education

See also

Notes and references

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Statio A statio (Latin for "position" or "location") is the place where, in the Roman Rite, a devotion to the stations of the Cross is celebrated. On specific station days, on which in the Late Roman Catholic liturgy of the Late Antiquity a devotion ...
'' on the ''Via Francigena''