The powerful family of the Savelli managed to have two Popes: Onorio III and Onorio IV, this last one instead of living in Vatican lived in his palace-stronghold on the Aventino together with his family and his brother Pandolfo Savelli, powerful and respected senator of Rome. Where it was the grave it was transmitted orally and indications have not remained, but the historians of 800 were thinking that the grave to which it was referring the people were that one of Tito Tazio, also he buried to the slopes of the hill in a wood of laurels closed between two lanes calls one Vico Maggiore del Laureto and another Vico Minore del Laureto. buried to the slopes of the mountain that taken his name. The king himself was encircled by the enemies and killed in the battle and (as historical Aurelio Vittore of the IV century A.D. The fortalice in XIII century had become owned by the Savelli, a branch of the Crescenzi that was coming from Monte Sabello in the neighbourhoods of Albano, which have given the name to the Stronghold.Īccording to the medieval legend the Savelli were descending from Aventino, son of Hercules and Rea, king of the Albans who had fought beside Turno against Enea. In IX and X century Castellum Crescentii accomodated the Saxon emperors Ottone I (880-912), Ottone II (936-961), Ottone III (980-1002) and Lotario di Suplimburgo crowned in Laterano in 1113. There were the Middle Ages and the powerful Roman families of the Conti and the Orsini often were colliding with the Crescenzi, for this reason the residences were strengthened like true castles. In X century here the powerful family of the Crescenzi built his stronghold the fortalice was surrounding the whole hill arriving up to Via Marmorata, where the bastions are still visible today, and was containing inside also the Basilica of Santa Sabina and of Sant’Anselmo. This road already exist at the times of the Ancient Rome when his name was Clivius Capsarius because in the nearest there was the tabernae of the wardrobes of the Suburra’s thermae in the high Middle Ages it took the name of alley of Santa Sabina until the last century. These names that evoke atmospheres of sweetness and serenity send back to the perfumes of Rome that perceives the one who allows himself to attract from a walk long the road that once time was leading to the Castle of the Crescenzi.
There are some magic places in Rome where it seems that the time has been stopped, between these the Hillock of Stronghold Savella (Clivo di Rocca Savella) than from the Square of the Mouth of the Truth go up to the Garden of the Oranges.
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