page_title: Acquapendente
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Acquapendente / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Torre Alfina, near Acquapendente in Lazio, Italy, photographed from afar. The tower was built by the Lombard king Desiderius.
context_page_description: Acquapendente is a city and comune in the province of Viterbo, in Lazio. Acquapendente is a centre for the agricultural production of vegetables and wine, and has a tradition of pottery craftsmanship.
context_section_description: The area of modern Acquapendente was settled by Etruscans in Roman times, as archaeological finds have shown. However, the first historical document of the modern city dates from the 9th century AD, with a town named Farisa or Arisa along the Via Francigena. A document from Emperor Otto I, dated 964, contains the first recorded use of the name Acquapendentem which means "hanging water",  from  several small waterfalls in the Paglia river on the boundary between Lazio and Tuscany.
  Acquapendente was the first stop in Italy in the travels of Saint Roch in the early 14th century; the saint supposedly spent several days in the hospital there curing plague victims.
  The city was later part of the March of Tuscany and, from the end of the 14th century and beginning of the 15th, it was part of the commune (later Republic) of Siena. In 1449 it became an independent centre within the Papal States.
  After the complete destruction of Castro, Lazio in 1649, Acquapendente, previously part of the diocese of Orvieto, became the seat of a diocese that included what had been the diocese of Castro. The diocese of Acquapendente continued in existence until 27 March 1986, when its territory was added to that of Viterbo. No longer a residential bishopric, Aquipendium, as it is called in Latin, is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.
caption: Torre Alfina, about 8 kilometers east of Acquapendente
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