Villamagna

Villamagna is a comune and city inside the province of Chieti within the Abruzzo location of south-eastern Italy. Originally a Roman settlement, the city's name derives from the Latin words villa and magna. In the Middle Ages, its name turned into written as Villa Magna. Several bronze artefacts from the Roman necropolis close to the town dating from the 5th century BC are held in Chieti's archaeological museum, "La Civitella". After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the agreement came into the possession of the Order of Saint Benedict, which built the Convent of San Severino right here.

The convent become deserted inside the 11th century, and the land and its settlement had been ceded to the Normans. By 1461 it changed into below the manipulate of Ferdinand I of Naples who gave Villamagna to Chieti, and then it got here underneath a succession of nearby lords. Throughout the Middle Ages, the metropolis become also concern to common raids by means of Saracen invaders which did not end until 1566. The local legend is that the town's consumer saint Santa Margherita miraculously appeared and grew to become returned the Saracens at the city walls, an event reenacted every July in the city's most important festival.