The borgo of Boville Ernica (FR) was originally known as Buca or Babuco and later Bauco, the name used until 1907. It then took its present form which refers to the ancient votive images found in the Monte Fico area of a bull associated with an adjective deriving from Monti Ernici where the borgo stands. Inhabited since the Iron Age and later by the Romans, Boville was destroyed by the Saracens and the Hungarians. From the 13th to 16th centuries under the Papal State, it was governed as a sort of Republic with 12 dominant families, including the Valentini and the Crescenzi. Places of interest in Boville Ernica include the Church of San Pietro Ispano, which conserves one of Giotto’s two mosaic angels, fragments of the great mosaic of the Navicella which once decorated the façade of the early Christian basilica of San Pietro in Vaticano, which was destroyed to give way to the present church dating to 16th-17th centuries (the other angel is in the Museo del Tesoro di San Pietro).
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