Fiuggi: Lazio region, Province of Frosinone
Fiuggi, thanks to the remarkable receptive truth is, after Rome, the city of the Lazio that has the greater number of places read in hotel and extra-hotel exercises.
Immense and diversified much it is also the net trades them with nearly 300 exercises that they comprise boutiques, handicraft stores, supermarkets. Numerous the characteristic restaurants, pizzerie, pub and premises.
They detach between the others a PalaFiuggi, the Theatre of the Source, the communal Theatre and numerous discotheques and knows them from dance.
Fiuggi annually accommodates national and international manifestations of great importance and conferences.
Inhabitants, surface, altitude slm:
Inhabitants: 9.302 in 2007
Surface: 33,06 Kmq
Altitude: 747 mt/slm
Distance from the chief town and street distance
The distance from Frosinone is of 30 km
The distance from Rome is of approximately 90 Km, and from Naples 180.
How to arrive: - Freeway of a1 Sun - Casello Anagni-Fiuggi Terme - with the FFSS Rome-Cassino-Naples draft Station Anagni-Fiuggi Terme (A direct service of courier COTRAL leaves from Rome Terms).
ORIGIN AND HISTORY
The common one today is composed from two distinguished nuclei: Fiuggi the Old Town (m. 747 s.l.m.) that it is the nucleus of more ancient takeover, and the novecentesca Fiuggi Thermal Resort (m. 621 s.l.m.), inserted in the thermal and wrapped zone in the green of the chestnut tree forests.
One thinks that a small village, of Felcia name, existed already all' age of the Ernici, the allocated preroman population in this area of the low Lazio. In the 367 a.C the roman domination had beginning, and to the roman period they go back the first attestations on the properties of local waters of Fons Arilla, as now it came called. Called later on Anticoli di Campagna, whose name seems to come they give that is before colles before the hill, came that is in 1911 transformed in Fiuggi (from feuci ferns, than, abundant, they grow in the territory of the citizen). The lived one, anciently, was situated in the campaign, but, as a result of the barbaric invasions and of the Saraceni, the inhabitants moved themselves in the near hill, where rise currently the historical center, for being able itself to defend in more effective way.
To the beginnings of XII century, as a result of one ill-fated fight against Guarcino and other centers, ancient Anticoli part of its territory lost. While in XIII the century Bonifacio VIII acquiring Cajetani Tower it could boast feudali rights also on same Anticoli. With the advent of Alexander IV Borgia the castle of Anticoli came entrusted cardinal Ascanio Sforza and, successively, to Giovanni, son of Lucrezia Borgia.
It is in XVI century that i Column, through several vicissitudini, entered in possession of the territories where the citizen rises they maintained and it till the century scorso1816.
In August 1911 it is own in Fiuggi that came signed the declaration of war to Turkey to work of the Minister and Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti of the Salandra Foreign countries.
While in 1914 he is the king in person who, lodged in then the newest Palace of the Source, company the declaration of neutrality in the conflict as soon as burst.
To the beginnings of the 1900's the valorization of the curative properties of waters left, with the inauguration of the Source Bonifacio VIII; in 1913 it came opened the Great Hotel Palazzo della Fonte, one of most prestigious of Europe, than the successive year the family would exactly have received real.
In Fiuggi effects it became a point of reference for many “notables” and aristocrats of the age who came here also only for a period of svago.
Between the personages whom in the decades they have attended Fiuggi we only cite: Guglielmo Marconi, Benedict Croce, Luigi Pirandello, Peter Badoglio, Pablo Picasso, Federico Fellini, Peter Nenni, Christian Barnard, Giulio Andreotti, Francisco Cossiga, Andrea Camilleri…
In 1916 the Rome-Fiuggi-Alatri-Frosinone Railroad to reduced scartamento was inaugurated, then dismessa in 1982. Such infrastructure gave impulse to the tourism of the modern era in the thermal city.
It was come true also all' inside of the territory a kind of light railroad that put in communication the Sources with the several parts of the city. Today such net of transport does not exist more. In years Twenty then the second thermal system was inaugurated, the Anticolana Source, characterized from a splendid park. During the second world war it carried out the hospital function (using the hotel structures) when the allies were blocked from the Germans long the Gustav line.
To our days, after Rome, Fiuggi has the greater number of hotels of the Lazio, and is one of the known thermal center in Europe, with a remarkable tourist flow. Thanks to this are often chosen like center of conferences and political manifestations.
The Administration is currently trying new solutions in order to realize a palacongressi important in order to adapt itself to the demands for the tourist-congressuale market.
A plan has been realized from Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
MANIFESTATIONS AND EVENTS
- Festivity of the Saint patron Biagio
- Extensions of Art and Culture to the Workshop of the Memory
- International Festival of the guitar
- Fiuggi Family Festival
- With national band course the “Baton of Gold”
In the galleries of art of Fiuggi they have exposed and they expose great names of the international panorama: from De Chirico to Guttuso, Purified Annigoni to… Fiuggi is moreover rich of systems sportswomen, between they the field from golf to 18 holes, swimming pools, fields from tennis and a handling.
The PalaFiuggi accommodates numerous and various events.
The golf of Fiuggi it has been one of the first Golf publics realized in Italy.
Sin from years Twenty was attended from coming famous personages from all Europe.
In 1998 in the vicinities of the Golf it has been opened a Communal Sport Center of approximately 17 hectares comprising two you live of soccer, you live sportswomen for calciotto, polyvalent covered structure, auxiliary clubs-house, services, systems for the athletics, track pedestrian cycle for training of approximately 2 km, olimpionica swimming pool with tribunes.
The Center is center of withdrawal of important squares like the National one of Soccer under 21, the Lazio, Naples, the Frosinone.