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See also: Italy, in the province of Aquila, 40 M. by See also: rail S.E. by E. of that See also: town, and 107 m
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E. by N. of See also: Rome (75 M. See also: direct)
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Pop
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(r9o1), 13,372 (town), 18,247 (commune)
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See also: Sulmona is situated at a height of 1322 ft. above the See also: sea on the Gizio, a tributary of the Pescara, which supplies See also: water-po'cVer to its paper-mills, fulling-mills and copper-See also: works
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Its See also: cathedral of See also: San Panfilio has a 14th-century portal
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The interior has been modernized, but in the crypt are some See also: medieval sculptures
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Sulmona has also in S
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Maria della Tomba a See also: good example of pure See also: Gothic
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S
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See also: Francesco d'See also: Assisi occupies the site of an older and larger See also: church, the Romanesque portal of which still stands at the end of the Corso Ovidio, and forms the entrance to the
See also: meat market
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Opposite is a picturesque aqueduct of 1266 with pointed See also: arches
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S . Agostino has a good Gothic portal . The Ospedale Civico, next to the church of the Annunziata, begun in the firstSee also: half of the 15th century, shows an interesting mixture of Gothic and See also: Renaissance styles
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The window of the Palazzo Tabassi is similar, and both are due to Lombard masters
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In the See also: court of the grammar school is a See also: fine 15th-century statue of Ovid, the most celebrated native of the town, whose memory is preserved among the peasants in songs and folk-See also: lore
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The Porta Napoli is an interesting See also: gate of the early 14th century
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Innocent VII. was a native of the town
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In the vicinity of the town is See also: Monte Morrone where Pietro di See also: Morone lived (c
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1254) as a See also: hermit and founded a monastery for his hermits, who after his See also: elevation to the papacy as Celestine V. took the name of See also: Celestines; the monastery (S
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Spirito) remained till 1870, when it was transformed into a prison
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There are some ruins of the imperial See also: period, attributed, groundlessly, to the See also: house of Ovid near it
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The church contains a Gothic See also: tomb of 1412 by a See also: German master, in which Renaissance influence is, according to Burckhardt, traceable for the first See also: time in See also: south Italy in the realistic characterization of the portrait figures
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Sulmo, a city of the See also: Paeligni, is first mentioned during the Second Punic War (211 B.C.)
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It was the second town of the Paeligni in importance, See also: Corfinium coming first
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It became a See also: Roman colony probably in the reign of See also: Augustus, and as a municipium it continued to flourish throughout the See also: empire
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It was situated 7 M. south-See also: east of Corfinium on the road to See also: Aesernia, and was famous for its ironsmiths
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Hardly any remains of the See also: ancient city exist above ground, owing to frequent See also: earth-quakes
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A number of discoveries of tombs (both archaic and of the Roman period), &c., have however been made (cf
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A. de Nino, in Notizie degli Scavi, passim)
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See also: Charles V. erected it into a principality, which he bestowed on Charles
See also: Lannoy, who had captured See also: Francis I. at the See also: battle of See also: Pavia
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It ultimately passed to the Corno and See also: Borghese families
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The bishopric is known as that of Valva and Sulmona
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