Parrano

Parrano is a municipality with 586 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2012) in the Province of Terni in the Umbria region of Italy.

Geography

The municipality covers 40 km ². It is located about 35 km southwest of the regional capital of Perugia and about 50 km northwest of the provincial capital of Terni in the climatic classification of Italian communities in the zone E, 2167 GR / G.. It is part of the Comunità montana Monte Selva di Meana Peglia e and is on Chiani, a tributary of the Tiber.

The districts include Contrada Verciano, Cantone, Frattaguida and Pievelunga.

The neighboring municipalities are Ficulle, Montegabbione and San Venanzo.

History

The approximately twenty caves that are now called Tane del Diavolo ( Devil's Cave dt ), built between the late Paleolithic and Bronze Age. To show the 6th to 5th century, the Etruscans were present, as discovered in 1993 Etruscan Tombs ( Tombe di Soriano ). After the Romans had in Parrano settlements. 1118 was the bishop of Orvieto, Guglielmo, the feudal rights and the castle to Bernardo Bulgarello. This agreement was renewed in 1172 by the Bishop orvieter Rustico through the Carta convenientie et facta est que trasactionis inter Rusticum Urbevetanum Episcopum et Ranerium Comitem filium Bulgarelli de castro Parrani. Later, the Count of Di Marsciano family were lords here. 1518 married the Marsciano with the Baglioni to 1531 with the Marescotti who remained in Parrano to 1740. Except for the exception of the Napoleonic occupation of the Papal States took over the rule, which lasted until 1816, when Orvieto took over the place and just one year later Ficulle passed on. In 1927, the town was divided into the newly founded province of Terni.

Attractions

  • Comunale Chiesa
  • Tane del Diavolo, caves from the Palaeolithic and Bronze Age

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Carlo Maccari, Archbishop
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