Pontecorvo

Pontecorvo is a city and comune within the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. Its population is c. 13,200. The village lies underneath Rocca Guglielma, a medieval fortification perched on an inaccessible spur. Its name derives from the pons curvus, "curved bridge", that could still be visible spanning the Liri in the center of the metropolis that grew across the bridgehead in the direction of the Middle Ages. The curve of the bridge was supposed to divert timbers that would strike its piers throughout floods.

The folk etymology of corvo, "crow", symbol of the "black clergymen", the Benedictines of the abbey of Monte Cassino, inside whose secular territory, the Terra Sancti Benedicti, Pontecorvo lay, is displayed inside the metropolis's current coat-of-fingers, which represents a crow surmounting a curved bridge. In Roman times the rural region became ruled from Aquinum, the current Aquino. Some Roman stays have been retrieved from a villa website online at Sant'Oliva. The medieval commune dates from 860, whilst Rodoaldo, the Lombard gastaldo of Aquino, erected the first model of the walled fortification on the rocca, meant to protect the bridgehead from Saracen intruders arising the Liri.