Magliano Sabina

Its origins?

Originally the territory of Magliano was covered by the sea, then by a lake, called Tiberino, but archaeological finds have been found on the then emerged hills, confirming the human presence in the territory already in ancient times. Rustic villas of the Republican and Imperial ages that are scattered throughout the territory, together with an inhabited nucleus in the Tiber Valley called Catiliano, testify to the Roman conquest. In the 12th century it was an important fortress subject to the papacy. In 1311, Senator Ludovico of Savoy subjugated Magliano to Rome, becoming a Capitoline fief for 500 years. In the 15th century Magliano lived a period of renaissance, thanks to the wealth deriving from the river port on the Tiber, and for being elected by Pope Alexander VI as the seat of the Sabine Diocese and later as the seat of the Sabine Seminary. However, between the end of the 16th century and the first decades of the 17th century, when Pope Sixtus V ordered the construction of the Ponte Felice and the diversion of the Tiber, Magliano began to decline. In the Napoleonic period, Magliano was the seat of a canton and entered the Tiber Department. After the brief experience of the Second Roman Republic, the town entered the Delegation of Rieti in 1850. From 1860 to 1870 Magliano was a borderland between the Papal State and the Kingdom of Italy, and belonged to the Province of Umbria (later called Perugia). On the eve of the capture of Rome, in September 1870, General Raffaele Cadorna installed his staff in Magliano to attack the Papal State. The opening to Rome, thanks to the Roma-Orte railway line, gives a strong boost to trade and agriculture. During Fascism the territories of the Municipalities and Provinces were modified so that Magliano passed to the province of Rome (1923), and in 1927 to the province of Rieti. In the 1960s a new opportunity for development was represented by the "passage" of the A1 Highway (Autostrada del Sole).