Arce 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 Frosinone

Province of Frosinone

The Province of Frosinone is a province in the Lazio region of Italy, with 91 comuni . Its capital is the city of Frosinone. It has an area of 3,244 km², and a total population of 489,042 .The Province was established by Royal Decree on 6 December 1926 with territories belonging to Lazio...

, in the region of Lazio, Italy

Italy

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. it is an agricultural center located on a hill overlooking the Via Casilina

Via Casilina

The Via Casilina was an ancient Roman road in Latium.It was created from the fusion of two other ancient Roman roads, the Via Latina and the Via Labicana. It connected Rome to ancient Casilinum . It entered Rome...

, in the middle valley of the Liri.

History

In the Middle Ages it followed the history of Rocca d'Arce

Rocca d'Arce

Rocca d'Arce is a comune in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 100 km southeast of Rome and about 20 km southeast of Frosinone....

. Later it was a fief of the Della Rovere

Della Rovere

Della Rovere is a noble family of Italy. Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV and his nephew Giuliano...

 (1475) and the Boncompagni

Boncompagni

The Boncompagni is an Italian noble family from Assisi.-History:The family is documented for the first time in 1133, when one Rodolfo Boncompagni, a German nobleman of Saxon origins, was appointed by Lothair II as lord of Assisi...

 (1612). Main sights include the Baroque Parrocchiale of Santi Pietro e Paolo (late 17th century) and the church of Sant'Antonio, which has maintained a 13th century portal.

Geography

Arce borders with the municipalities of Ceprano

Ceprano

Ceprano is a town and comune in the province of Frosinone, in Ciociaria traditional area, part of the Lazio region of central Italy.It is located south of Rome, and c. 127 km north of Naples.-History:...

, Colfelice

Colfelice

Colfelice is a comune in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 100 km southeast of Rome and about 25 km southeast of Frosinone...

, Falvaterra

Falvaterra

Falvaterra is a comune in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 100 km southeast of Rome and about 20 km southeast of Frosinone...

, Fontana Liri

Fontana Liri

Fontana Liri is a comune in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 90 km southeast of Rome and about 15 km east of Frosinone...

, Monte San Giovanni Campano

Monte San Giovanni Campano

Monte San Giovanni Campano is a comune of c. 12,800 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 90 km southeast of Rome and about 14 km east of Frosinone....

, Rocca d'Arce

Rocca d'Arce

Rocca d'Arce is a comune in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 100 km southeast of Rome and about 20 km southeast of Frosinone....

, San Giovanni Incarico

San Giovanni Incarico

San Giovanni Incarico is a comune in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 100 km southeast of Rome and about 20 km southeast of Frosinone...

 and Strangolagalli

Strangolagalli

Strangolagalli is a comune in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 90 km southeast of Rome and about 12 km southeast of Frosinone. It is located on the slopes of Ernici Mountains, towards the Liri River...

.

Its hamlets (frazioni

Frazione

A frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...

) are Campanile, Campostefano, Collealto, Collemezzo, Collenoci, Colleolivo, Colleone, Fontanelle, Frassi, Isoletta, Marzi, Murata, Portone, Puzzaca, Tramonti, and Valle.

Economy

Economy include the production of cereals, fruit, olives and forage. Industries include mechanics, food processing and others, all at small level.