Luco dei Marsi | |
Official Name: | Comune di Luco dei Marsi |
Coordinates: | 41.9667°N 41°W |
Region: | Abruzzo |
Province: | L'Aquila (AQ) |
Frazioni: | Petogna |
Mayor: | Marivera De Rosa |
Area Total Km2: | 44.87 |
Population Total: | 6047 |
Population As Of: | 30 September 2017 |
Population Demonym: | Luchesi |
Elevation M: | 680 |
Saint: | Madonna dell'Ospedale |
Day: | Last Sunday in August |
Postal Code: | 67056 |
Area Code: | 0863 |
Luco dei Marsi is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central-eastern Italy. It is part of the Marsica.
The town was probably founded by the Roman Emperor Claudius to house workers in the drying of the Lacus Fucinus (Lake Fucino). The name derives from a nearby wood, Lucus Angitiae, "Sacred Grove of Angitia", referring to a divine sorceress of the Marsi Italic tribe.
During the Middle Ages it was a fief of the d'Avalos and then of the Colonna family.