Foglia (Magliano Sabina) Explained

Foglia
Settlement Type:Frazione
Image Map1:Italy_provincial_location_map_2016.svg
Mapsize1:150px
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Type3:Comune
Subdivision Name:Italy
Subdivision Name1:Lazio
Subdivision Name2:Rieti
Subdivision Name3:Magliano Sabina
Population As Of:2001
Population Total:44
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Coordinates:42.3313°N 12.4739°W
Elevation M:85
Population Footnotes:Stat

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 to the north and the to the south, almost opposite the mouth of the 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 between 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 in height, except the sigma which is and the V sign which is .[3]

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.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: La Frazione di Foglia . https://web.archive.org/web/20211106090620/https://comune.maglianosabina.ri.it/contenuti/128432/frazione-foglia . 6 November 2021 . 2021-11-06 . comune.maglianosabina.ri.it . it.
  2. Web site: Foglia - Magliano Sabina . 2023-05-15 . Visit Lazio . it-IT.
  3. Stefania Quilici . Gigli. it. 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. 1987. 73.
  4. Web site: Comune di Foglia . beniculturali.it.
  5. Web site: 17 May 2023 . Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta .
  6. Book: Francesco Paolo Sperandio . 1790 . 150 . Sabina sagra e profana antica e moderna . nella stamperia di Giovanni Zempel .
  7. Web site: 2023-05-15 . 2017-02-22 . it-IT . Foglia . I Borghi più Belli d'Italia.