Camporeggiano – Wikipedia

Camporeggiano It is a fraction of the Municipality of Gubbio (PG).

The town is located along the SS 219 state road Pian d’Signing That from Umbertide leads to Gubbio (about 18 km east), along the valley furrowed by the Assino torrent. It is located at 316 m s.l.m .. On the small high altura called Monte Cavallo you can see the ruins of the homonymous castle razed to the ground in 1350 for retaliation from the tyrant of Gubbio Giovanni di Cantuccio Gabrielli ^[first] . According to Istat, in 2001, the inhabitants were 51 [first] .

The toponym seems to be born from the term Reggi , which indicates an inlet or a crevasse; A second hypothesis, less likely, makes it descend from Latin Campus Regis , with reference to the possessions of the local lords, the Gabrielli.

The first buildings date back to the 6th century, and consist of some defensive towers (Monte Cavallo, Sant’Angelo, Castello di Aria, Goregge, Castiglione) placed along the Byzantine corridor, a street that took from Rome to Ravenna to the time of the Lombards.

Around that of Monte Cavallo the parish church of Agnano, a fortified castle that was a fief of the Gabrielli already at the beginning of the 10th century.

In 1057 he visited the San Pier Damiani Castle, who in Fonte Avellana had little Rodolfo Gabrielli as a disciple: he obtained as a gift from Rozia Gabrielli, mother of Rodolfo, the manor and the surrounding lands, with the promise to build a dedicated monastery to the apostle San Bartolomeo.

Already in 1058 a group of monks (even skilled bricklayers) moved to the nascent new monastery, with a sequel to workers. They worked to improve the village: they built a bridge over the absority, enlarged a mill and a furnace, founded a glassware, opened a hospital for pilgrims.

Giovanni Gabrielli, brother of Rodolfo and ancient owner of the places, made monk in Fonte Avellana, returned to it as abbot: his possessions extended to the nearby Montone, Umbertide and Città di Castello.

At the request of Rodolfo Gabrielli, meanwhile appointed bishop of Gubbio, Pope Alexander II removed the abbey from the episcopal jurisdiction Eugubin in 1063, and placed it under the direct protection of the Holy See.

Until the beginning of the eighteenth century they allocated the Olivetans, after the original group of monks, dependent on Fonte Avellana, was dissolved in 1417, while then passed to the Benedictine monastery of San Pietro di Gubbio.

In 1860 the abbey and its lands were state -owned and sold to private owners.

Recent restoration works have brought to light the crypt, in which remains of human bodies were also found.

Gian Franco Venè for the volume “A thousand lire per month. Daily life of Italians during Fascism”, he puts “La Spanish fever”, book of Memoirs by Aurelio Pressutti of Camporeggiano ^[2] , Il Candelaio Edizioni, Florence 1988, among the most used books to revive “life that really lived by the majority of the Italian people during the fascist dictatorship”. The end of the sharecropping ^[3] It particularly affects the small village regarding the number of inhabitants: in 1951 the residents were 917 against 51 of 2001 ^[4]

Camporeggiano was part of the railway section “Railway Railway Central Apennine” with a decrease in operation from 1866 until 1944 as a station located at kilometer 95 from Arezzo.

Along the Pian d’Assino, the Central Apennine railway worked until the beginning of the twentieth century, which connected Arezzo to Fossato di Vico [2] And in Camporeggiano he had his railway station.

The dirt roads surrounding the Mountains of Camporeggiano have been used several times to host sports car events, such as some stages of the Sanremo Rally (Rally World Championship) and the Italian Rally Championship.

• Torre di Monte Cavallo (6th century)
• Abbey of S. Bartolomeo (11th century), three naves with raised presbytery and crypt with Roman columns
• Ruderi del Castello dei Gabrielli (10th century)

• Photo . are penelope.uchicago.edu .