Anticoli Corrado
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Anticoli Corrado is a comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Rome
Province of Rome
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 in the Italian
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 region Latium
Latium
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, located about 40 km northeast of Rome
Rome
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. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 932 and an area of 16.3 km².

Anticoli Corrado borders the following municipalities: Mandela
Mandela (RM)
Mandela is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about 40 km northeast of Rome.Mandela borders the following municipalities: Anticoli Corrado, Cineto Romano, Licenza, Percile, Roccagiovine, Roviano, Saracinesco, Vicovaro.-References:...

, Marano Equo
Marano Equo
Marano Equo is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km east of Rome. It stands on a steep slope descending to the Aniene valley with the Monti Simbruini located nearby....

, Rocca Canterano
Rocca Canterano
Rocca Canterano is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km east of Rome. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 230 and an area of 15.8 km²....

, Roviano
Roviano
Roviano is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 km northeast of Rome.Roviano borders the following municipalities: Anticoli Corrado, Arsoli, Cineto Romano, Mandela, Marano Equo, Riofreddo. It is home to polygonal walls dating to the late Aequi age,...

, Saracinesco
Saracinesco
Saracinesco is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about 40 km northeast of Rome. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 169 and an area of 11.0 km²....

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Anticoli became known in the 19thcentury because its young inhabitants used to pose as models for the community of artists living near Piazza di Spagna. Some artists eventually went to see the birthplace of their models and found Anticoli a very picturesque site to the point of living there for some time. The town attracted artists until World War II. Anticoli and some of the neighbouring towns (shown in this page) were portrayed in many paintings. Anticoli can be reached from Tivoli following Via Tiburtina Valeria.

Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Earl Kramer was an American film director and producer. Kramer was responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies...

's The Secret of Santa Vittoria
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
The Secret of Santa Vittoria is a 1969 film made by Stanley Kramer Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and co-produced by George Glass from a screenplay by Ben Maddow and William Rose. It was based on the novel by Robert Crichton...

(1969) was almost entirely shot here.

Main sights

  • Church of St. Peter (11th century)
  • Palazzo Baronale (17th century)
  • Piazza delle Ville, with a fountain by Arturo Martini
    Arturo Martini
    Arturo Martini was a leading Italian sculptor between World War I and II. He moved between a very vigorous classicism and modernism. He was associated with public sculpture in fascist Italy, but later renounced his medium altogether.-Futurism:Martini seems to have been an active supporter of the...

  • Civic Museum of Modern Art, housing works by artists connected to the town, such as Oscar Kokoschka, Felice Carena
    Felice Carena
    Felice Carena was an Italian painter.Born at Cumiana, he studied in the Turin's Art Academy; here he frequented Symbolist poets such as Arturo Graf and Giovanni Cena. In 1906 he moved to Rome and in 1912 he exposed his works at the Biennale di Venezia...

    and others.
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