Tagliacozzo

The town grew at 740 metres on the slopes of Monte Civita, and its name may come from the Latin for 'a cut in the rock', after the cleft between Civita and the next peak. On the nearby Palentini plains Charles of Anjou defeated Conradin in 1268, a battle Dante recalls in the Inferno. The Orsini later ran a mint here and built the Palazzo Ducale.

Highlights

• Palazzo Ducale, with a Renaissance portal and a loggia frescoed in the 15th century
• The convent of San Francesco, with the relics of Blessed Tommaso da Celano
• The 18th-century fountain in Piazza dell'Obelisco
• The Museo Orientale in the sanctuary of the Madonna dell'Oriente
• The Festival internazionale di Mezza Estate, in July and August

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.