Viterbo

Viterbo is an historic metropolis and comune inside the Lazio location of primary Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo. It conquered and absorbed the neighboring city of Ferento in its early history. It is about 80 kilometres north of GRA at the Via Cassia, and it's miles surrounded by using the Monti Cimini and Monti Volsini. The historical center of the metropolis is surrounded by means of medieval partitions, nonetheless intact, built all through the 11^th and 12^th centuries.

Entrance to the walled center of the town is through historical gates. Apart from agriculture, the principle resources of Viterbo's location are pottery, marble, and wood. The town is home to the Italian gold reserves, an crucial Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Tuscia, and the Italian Army's Aviation Command headquarters and schooling centre. It is positioned in a extensive thermal location, attracting many tourists from the whole of central Italy.

The first document of the brand new town dates to the 8^th century CE, when it's far recognized as Castrum Viterbii. It changed into fortified in 773 with the aid of the Lombard King Desiderius in his vain try to conquer Rome. When the popes switched to the Frankish aid, Viterbo became a part of the Papal States, but this repute become to be highly contested by way of the emperors within the following centuries, till in 1095 it is recognised it became a bad commune.