Region: Umbria
Altitude: 314 m o.s.l.
Area: 35,5 Sq Km
Population: 694
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"Un
paese in una conchiglia verde."
Its origins are very old and
the territory was certainly occupied by the Etruscans as it is
certified not long ago "ipogeo" of
the Villa Sagraia and the fortified village of Bellona on the top
of Mount Murlo. Certainly in 217 b.c. after the unfortunate battle
of Trasimeno the population of Lisciano and Bellona offered their
help to the Roman soldiers running from the massacre and for this
Hannibal put the territory to fire and sword. It is possible that
Lisciano got its name from Lisius or Licius that came from the Roman
period. The adding of the name Niccone is tied to the river of the
same name that cuts through all its length the Pierle Valley and
that the Monks of the ancient Abbey of Saint Benedetto, of which
can still be seen the ruins half-way up the mountain, who first
began to reclaim the land. On the Marte Plain, situated a short
distance from Lisciano, it seems that the Roman Emperor Pertinace
successor to Commodo was a native. All the valley, other than during
the Byzantine period, became an important strategical position in
that it allowed communication, through a narrow corridor well fortified,
between Rome and Ravenna passing by Perugia and for the High Valley
of Tevere. The Castles of Lisciano, Pierle, Danciano, Pugnano, Sorbello,
and Reschio witness to the existence of this defensive line. In
1202 the Castle of Lisciano owned by the Marquis del Monte passed
to the protection of Perugia. After a short period in which the
Castle of Lisciano belonged to the family Casali of Cortona in 1479
it returned under papal governership and there it rested until 1861
when it became part of a united Italy. |
