Ceccano

Ceccano is a city and comune in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, imperative Italy, in the Latin Valley. The city had its origins as an ancient Volscian castle that surrendered to the Romans in 424 BC. Its name in historical times become Fabrateria Vetus. According to way of life, the call was modified into the contemporary one within the early Middle Ages, in honor of 1 Petronius Ceccanus, father of Pope Honorius I. Conquered via the Lombards at the time of King Aistulf, later it have become an important fort of the Papal territories. In 1218, a monk from close by Fossanova Abbey compiled the Annals of Ceccano.

From 900 to 1450 it turned into dominated by the local Counts of Ceccano, maximum likely of German origin; later their territories had been assigned to Rodrigo Borgia by way of Pope Alexander VI after which to the Colonna family. From 3 November 1943 and 31 May 1944, at some stage in World War II, the city suffered 38 air attacks from Allied forces notwithstanding having no strategical importance; in certainly one of them the Church of Santa Maria a Fiume, a countrywide monument, was destroyed. Canadian Army conflict artist Charles Comfort painted the metropolis because it seemed at some point of the Second World War.