Foglia (Magliano Sabina)

Foglia
Foglia
Frazione
	Coordinates: 42°19′53″N 12°28′26″E / 42.33129°N 12.47393°E
Country	Italy
Region	Lazio
Province	Rieti
Comune	Magliano Sabina
Elevation	85 m (279 ft)
Population (2001)Stat
• Total	44
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)

Foglia is a frazione of the Italian comune of Magliano Sabina, in the province of Rieti, Lazio.^[1]^[2]

Geography

Foglia is located on a tuff plateau in the Tiber Valley, between the mouth of the Campana creek [it] to the north and the Aia stream [it] to the south, almost opposite the mouth of the Treja [it] river on the Tiber.

History

Prehistory - archaic era

The town sits close to an ancient ford of the Tiber where it joins the Tiber Valley beetween Treja and Aia valley an prehistory-archaic way to Archaeological area of Poggio Sommavilla and Falerii Veteres. Inside the town, on the side of the Autostrada del Sole, and above what remains of a necropolis created in the tuff plateau on which the town itself stands, is an inscription in the Faliscan alphabet where a dictus was found. It is located on a slab of local sandstone. The letters are 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) in height, except the sigma which is 4 centimetres (1.6 in) and the V sign which is 3 centimetres (1.2 in).^[3]^[4]

Contemporary

In 1817 Foglia was an autonomous municipality; it was then annexed from 1827 to 1853 to the municipality of Collevecchio and then, from 1853, to the municipality of Magliano Sabina, of which it is still a frazione.^[5]

Places of interest

Church of Santa Serena, or Santa Maria Assunta, believed by local tradition to be the place of retreat of Serena of Rome, wife of the Roman emperor Diocletian; it was rebuilt in 1579. It has a copy of the Madonna del Rosario by Sebastiano Conca.^[6]^[7]
Foglia is part of the I Borghi più belli d'Italia.^[8]

Gallery

Inscription in Faliscan language, rock necropolis of Foglia
Flaminia Verga, Archaeological map, Florence 2006
Inscription in Faliscan language on sandstone, removed from the rock necropolis of Foglia, in the Tiber Valley.

References

^ "La Frazione di Foglia". comune.maglianosabina.ri.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
^ "Foglia - Magliano Sabina" (in Italian). Visit Lazio. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
^ Firmani, art. cit. in QuadAEI 3, 1979, pp. 118–119, fig 2
^ Gigli, Stefania Quilici (1987). "Scali e traghetti sul Tevere in epoca arcaica, in Il Tevere e le altre vie d'acqua del Lazio antico". Quaderni del Centro di Studio per l'Archeologia Etrusco-italica (in Italian): 73.
^ "Comune di Foglia". beniculturali.it.
^ "Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta". Retrieved 17 May 2023.
^ Francesco Paolo Sperandio (1790). Sabina sagra e profana antica e moderna. nella stamperia di Giovanni Zempel. p. 150.
^ "Foglia". I Borghi più Belli d'Italia (in Italian). 22 February 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

External links

FAI Foglia
"Foglia". Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2024.

[1] "La Frazione di Foglia". comune.maglianosabina.ri.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021.

[2] "Foglia - Magliano Sabina" (in Italian). Visit Lazio. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

[3] Firmani, art. cit. in QuadAEI 3, 1979, pp. 118–119, fig 2

[4] Gigli, Stefania Quilici (1987). "Scali e traghetti sul Tevere in epoca arcaica, in Il Tevere e le altre vie d'acqua del Lazio antico". Quaderni del Centro di Studio per l'Archeologia Etrusco-italica (in Italian): 73.

[5] "Comune di Foglia". beniculturali.it.

[6] "Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta". Retrieved 17 May 2023.

[7] Francesco Paolo Sperandio (1790). Sabina sagra e profana antica e moderna. nella stamperia di Giovanni Zempel. p. 150.

[8] "Foglia". I Borghi più Belli d'Italia (in Italian). 22 February 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

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