San Gemini
San Gemini is a municipality with 5017 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the Province of Terni in the Umbria region of Italy.
Geography
The municipality covers 28 km ². It is located about 60 km south of Perugia and about 10 km northwest of Terni on the ancient Via Flaminia and the modern Strada Statale 3 Via Flaminia, where it has the junctions San Gemini North and Gemini South San. The place belongs to Cittaslow, a company incorporated in Italy in 1999 motion to decelerate and increase the quality of life in cities and was voted the most beautiful villages in Italy. The place was entered in the Middle Ages through the city gates Porta San Giovanni ( direction Perugia) and the Porta Burgi ( direction Rome). The enlargement of the city walls, the Porta Burgi is now centrally located in the local area and was replaced in the south by the Porta Romana ( 1723), the northern city gate is now the Porta Tuderte. The older gates are connected by the Via Casventino, the extension of the Porta Romana is the Via Roma. This part south of the Porta Burgi is called Neustadt.
The districts include Acquavogliera, Colle Pizzuto, Quadrelletto and Sangemini Fonte.
The neighboring municipalities are Montecastrilli, Narni and Terni.
History
First mentioned in writing the place in 1036, in a document of the Abbey of San Nicolò. Since 1119 the site served as a royal estate of Narni. After that was the place with the help of the Papal States free commune, however, awarded in 1530 by Pope Clement VII to the Orsini as a fief, who converted in 1590 the fief under Pope Urban VII in a county. In 1722 they sold the place for 13,500 scudi to the family of Santa Croce. 1781 was the church by Pope Pius VI. city rights.
Carsulae
Carsulae is a former settlement of the Romans in the 3rd century BC, which was created about 4 km north of San Gemini in the course of construction of the Via Flaminia under the name Carsulis. Under the Emperor Augustus, the town was municipium. He was equipped with a graveyard, a forum, an amphitheater, a theater, a Roman Forum Basilica, a church ( Chiesa di San Damiano ), the baths, the temples ( Tempietti gemini ) and the archway of the Damiano ( Arco di San Damiano, at that time the northern city gate ). First archaeological excavations took place in the 16th century, however, the most intense until between 1951 and 1972. The ruins are well preserved, as the city was not inhabited again after an earthquake.
The neighboring municipality Montecastrilli got its name also from the settlement Montes Carsulis.
Attractions
- Abbazia di San Nicolò with associated and homonymous church, abbey from the 11th century, just outside the historic city center.
- Chiesa di San Francesco, built in the 13th century church. Contains the works Adorazione dei magi by Livio Agresti (* 1505 in Forli, † 1579 in Rome) and the terracotta figure of San Bernardino from the school of Vecchietta.
- Chiesa di San Giovanni, and Giovanni Battista church from the 12th century.
- Chiesa di Santo Stefano church with mosaics from the first century.
- Collegiate of San Gemini, late gothic church, also called cathedral, dating from the 14th century, contains the work of San Sebastiano curato dagli Angeli by Giovanni Baglione (oil on canvas, 196 cm x 147 cm).
- Oratorio di San Carlo, formerly known as Santa Maria de Incertis, oratorio, contains frescoes from the 15th century. In the sacristy is the work of San Carlo Borromeo Giovanni Baglione.
- Palazzo Vecchio, also Palazzo del Capitano, the Palazzo del Popolo and Palazzo del Pretorio called Town Hall from the 13th century. Contains partly preserved frescoes from the 14th century. The tower Torre Esperia was integrated in the 18th century.