Oriolo Romano

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Oriolo Romano

Country	Italy
Region	Latium
Province	Province of Viterbo (VT)
Mayor	Italo Carones

Elevation	420 m
Area	19.2 km²
Population
- Total (as of Dec. 2004)	3,276
- Density	170/km²
Time zone	CET, UTC+1
Coordinates	42°9′N, 12°8′E
Gentilic	oriolesi
Dialing code	06
Postal code	01010

Patron	Saint George
- Day	23 April
Location of Oriolo Romano in Italy
Website: Official Web Site of Oriolo Romano

Oriolo Romano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region Latium, located about 40 km northwest of Rome and about 30 km south of Viterbo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,276 and an area of 19.2 km².^[1]

Oriolo Romano borders the following municipalities: Bassano Romano, Bracciano, Canale Monterano, Manziana, Vejano.

[edit] History

Oriolo Romano counts approximately 3500 inhabitants and is situated to approximately 400m s.l.m. To the border between the province of Rome, from which Km tos be distant 53, and that one of Viterbo, from which Km and of which part tos be distant 39 ago, the communal territory of Oriolo is expanded on a zone to collinare rich of forests of high stalk, along the way Clodia, ancient road that combined the north of the sour Roman with the Tuscania, today partially parallel to the way Braccianese and the way Cassia. On the facade of the Saint palace Croce, today famous like Palazzo Altieri, some words are read that they can be considered the birth certificate of the country: “Saint George Croce fifth getlteman of Viano, son of Onofrio, disboscò the forest of Manziana, and condottovi the coloni in year 1562, yields attended the road Claudia, equipped of walls the castle of Oriolo, built up the church of S. George (1570), built up this palace”. In the first years of 1560, in fact, Saint George Croce, received the feudo in donation from the Orsini family, called Oriolo the new takeover risen from the disboscamento of 1560. The getlteman invited in its lands peasants and boscaioli, capannari”, coming from sayings “above all from the Tuscany and the Umbria, from Pistoia and Siena in particular. Granted enfiteusi and on hand put houses for the inhabitants with it obligation of disboscare spots and cultivating lands, corresponding “fifth” of how much harvest. The origin umbra of the first inhabitants of Oriolo, turns out still today, at a distance of centuries, in some dialectal inflessioni, uses culinari and folkloristic that can be observed in it it puts into effect them population: “The ways to say do not belong to the culture of these zones - the Marcello Piccioni says dr. - because the countries around have been here found to you from persons who came from the orvietano. As an example “to the garbo” it is a intraducibile expression that corresponds more or less to the Italian expression “God it wants it” or “if God wants”, much frequent one in Umbria. These dialectal shapes are getting lost for several reasons, immigrations, emigrations but above all because of the television that has tax a unified language. They remain ways as an example to say characteristic in toponimi, a mount that to Channel is called “the bandifera” in the part that watches to Oriolo is called “scialimate” that it means the “franata thing.” In the 1606 feudo it returned to the Orsini family that in 1671 sold the Altieri family. The feudo it remained to the Altieri until 1922, year in which definitively smembrato based on the laws that facilitated the freeing of the “civic uses”. The Agrarian University, association of peasants residents been born in the first years of the '900 as a result of the emanation of a national law, distributed to the civic uses of lands freed to the residents, maintaining the unitarism of lands.