Artena

Artena is a city and comune within the Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy. It is located inside the northwest of Monti Lepini, in the upper valley of the Sacco River. It is about 40 kilometres southeast with the aid of rail, and 30 kilometres direct from Rome. Economy is primarily based on agriculture, animal husbandry and tourism. The call of the unique village of the Volsci is unsure; Ecetra or Fortinum are viable suggestions. The modern-day village turned into known as Monte Fortino until 1873.

It owes its gift name to an unproven identity of the site with the historical Volscian Artena, destroyed in 404 BC. Another Artena, which become an Etruscan town belonging to the district of Caere, and laying among it and Veii, become destroyed in the length of the kings, and its site is unknown. In the Middle Ages Artena turned into a fief of the Counts of Tusculum and then the Counts of Segni, who held its fort till 1475 whilst, after request of Charles VIII of France, it was assigned to the Colonna. Due to the latter's anti-papal stance, Artena become ravaged numerous times by using papal armies.