
Just north of Rome, at the foot of the Tolfa, Allumiere was a place devoted to agriculture and pastoralism since the Etruscan and Roman period until 1500, when it became one of the strategic places of the Papal States. The story began with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the need to find deposits of alum, a mineral used in medicine, leather and paper industries. In this area deposits were discovered and in 1500 Agostino Chigi, who had managed the area, built workers' houses, a village, an aqueduct, and so was born Allumiere and it immediately became an important urban-industrial center. Revenues were so large that they enabled Pope Pius V to finance the war against the Turks. In the three centuries of open pit excavations, the territory of Allumiere has been altered and has created a new special morphology.
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Agricultural University
Agricultural universities are forms of management of ‘common goods’ i.e. collectively owned areas. They date…
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Chestnuts
The Allumiere forests have for centuries nourished the inhabitants with their most delicious fruit: chestnuts.…
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Hermitage of the Holy Trinity
The Hermitage of the Trinity is the oldest sanctuary of this area of the mountains…

The Sanctuary of Cibona
In a beech forest near Allumiere is the Sanctuary of Cibona, now abandoned. Its interesting…

Church Santa Maria Assunta in Heaven
The church was built in 1608 by the Olgiati family in the village of miners…

Palace of the Apostolic Camera
Palace of Reverenda Camera Apostolica, was built around 1580 by Pope Gregory XIII and housed…
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District Palio (race)
Agostino Chigi, the founder of Allumiere, came from Siena and wanted to bring its traditions,…

Underground aqueduct of Trajan
A monumental concealed but incredible charm is the long aqueduct which crossed Trajan Allumiere bringing…

Archeological-Naturalistic Museum “Adolfo Klitsche de La Grange”
The museum Palace of the Apostolic Camera is divided into two macro sections: that related…

Our Lady of Grace Sanctuary
This church dedicated to the Assumption was built by the Olgiati family. It was built…