Marino, Lazio

Marino (Marinum or Castrimoenium in latin, Marini in local dialect) is an Italian city and comune in Lazio (central Italy), on the Alban Hills, Italy, 21 km south east of Rome, with population of 37,684It is the third comune in Alban Hills for population, after Velletri and Albano Laziale., and the fourth comune in the Alban Hills for territory, after Velletri, Rocca di Papa and Rocca Priora.. It is bounded by other communes, Castel Gandolfo, Albano Laziale, Rocca di Papa, Grottaferrata, and Ciampino.Ciampino was a frazione of Marino up to December 1974.

Marino is famous for his white wine, and for the connected Grape Festival, being celebrated since 1924.

History

The territory of Marino was inhabited by Latin tribes from the 1st millennium BC. The ancient cities of Bovillae (Frattocchie), Mugilla (Santa Maria delle Mole, a frazione of the comune of Marino) and Ferentum (Marino itself) were part of the Latin League. Under the Roman Republic it was a summer resort for Roman patricians, who built luxurious villas in the area to escape the heat of Rome.

In 846 AD Bovillae, until then the largest settlement, was destroyed by the Saracens, and the population moved to the more easily defendable area of Ferentum, which was fortified under the new name of Marinum. From 1090 it was a dominium of the Counts of Tusculum, and later a fief of the......
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