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It rises to the stratums of the mount omonimo and comes bathed from the rivers Express and Contests. Of its closing in roman age they testify the rests of the amphitheater, of the theatre and of the terme of the villa of Mark Terenzio Varrone, it concentrates you to the southern extremity of the lived one. Decayed as a result of the landslide of Rome, the city revives with the foundation of the Benedictine abbey note like abbey of Montecassino (529), than above all in i centuries XI and XII are important cultural center and amanuense. In the 1994 Cassino, bench mark of the Gustav Line, comes shaved to the ground from the strafings of Allies to you that they suspect it one German operating base. Reconstructed, it is today one city modern, center of agricultural market, food industries, mechanical, chemistries and of the wood. The amphitheater or Colosseo di Cassino has been made to build up the century d.C. from matrona the roman Ummidia Quadratilla, like documents a registration found again in 1757 in the area of the orchestra. Greater axis 85 m has elliptic shape (, minor 69 m) and gradinate the north western, unfortunately gone nearly of the all lost ones, took advantage of the natural slope of the mountain; it was approached to you for five wide fornici with arc all sixth and was connected to the city from one lastricata road. Also the theatre, of perfectly semicircular shape, takes advantage of the slope of the mountain; constructed in augustea and dug age in 1936, conserve the scene, the orchestra, the proscenio, the seats and good original part of the cavea. Restored, it still comes used during the more important city manifestations. Close to the amphitheater and the theatre the century is found the mausoleo of Ummidia Quadritilla (a.C.-I century d.C.): plant to Greek cross with symmetrical arms, lowered arc and perfectly turns circular, absence of windows. The mausoleo has been transformed in church in X the century and therefore, to the fine 1600's, in it puts into effect them nail head of the Crocifisso. The terme varroniane, the whose territory (Hillocks) has been constituted park, rises over one of many sources of the Contests. The tradition wants that the present rests on the place belong to the villa of Mark Terenzio Varrone, that it had possedimenti in the zone. To the extremity western north of Cassino, opposite to the archaeological area, the Ianula rises rocca, that the name must to the God Giano, of which presumablly the place was cult center. The ruderi of the rocca, however, go back to X the century, when Abbot of Montecassino made it to erect to defense of the abbey. The reputation of Cassino however is tied to the abbey of Montecassino, founded from S. Benedict from Norcia in the 529, that it dominates the lived one from the top of mount (516 m). Of the complex the three chiostri admire: that median, cinquecentesco one, from which they to the chiostro knows itself of the Benefactors planned from Antonio from Sangallo the Young person, and those lateral ones, added in the 1700's. The basilica of the abbey is original of XIII the century, but the inside, rich of putties and marbles, have been rimaneggiato in baroque age. The municipal district of Frosinone is in the region/district of Lazio and it's in the province of Frosinone. the postcode is 03100 and the code number is +39 0775. Inhabitants are 45.128 and the surface is about 47 km2, with a density of population about 960 people for km2. Distance: from Rome 75 km, from Florence 291 km and from Venice 431 km.
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