Rocca Orsini and the lake
Channel: Die Gus
Date: 2020-06-09

The fortress of Trevignano Romano stands on a steep volcanic tuff hill partly defended naturally by overhanging slopes.
It is not known exactly when the fortress was built, it probably existed in the middle of the thirteenth century: there were several changes of ownership between the Curtabraca, the Prefects of Vico and the de Stinco, until in 1377 Trevignano was in the power of the Roman people. At the end of the fourteenth century it went into the hands of the Orsini who gradually, during the fifteenth century, came into possession of the entire territory of the lake. In 1496 the militia of Alexander VI, Pope Borgia, attacked and took Trevignano; in 1503 he confiscated all the Orsini feuds, but for a short time, since they took them back after his death in the same year. A few years later Gian Giordano Orsini had the fortress dismantled, which was not completely destroyed, but simply abandoned and used sporadically in different ways in the following centuries.
The collapses of the structure occurred little by little due to lack of maintenance and the building material reused for the construction of other buildings.