The Tecchiena Grancia is dipped in the green one. Conceived as a complex
and articulate architecture, he finds within placed also a little church
dedicated to San Benedetto Apostolo, this big granary belonged in the
past to the Certosini of Trisulti, the most beautiful architecture
example represents eighteenth-century present in the Alatrino.
Esso territory rises on lean there of the child monticchio hill, on
which around to the XI century sorresero for will of the Alatri Popolo a
few fortifications, several times you fire and rebuild in the course of
the centuries successìvi for continuos disputes between the opposite
bordering territories.
Such claims, sometimes resulting in true and real bloody battles, they
induced in 1245 Papa Innocenzo IV to deprive the Comune Alatrino of any
right on the Castello, incamerandolo in the goods of the Chiesa Roman
and reselling it subsequently in 1395 to the Trisurdi Certosa, with, I
annexed twelve hectares of land he was of gifted with, moreover lived
from a Sparuta community of Condatini. The arrival of the Cetosini,
pushed by the blessed rule "now Et Labora" granary changed the estate in
a true one and Propio for the alimentary needs of the Certosa, keeping
in force the ancient statutes what from the second half of the XIV
century were regulating the life interns .
Pur in a lot of arrived
difficulties in the next years, because of the continuos raids from he
leaves of local Signorotti, which were longing for the possession, the "Tenimentum"
reached such a vastness what in second half of the XVIII century the
Certosini built per feet of the complex the current one hill of the
Grancia, where they were staying up to the beginnings of of 1900. You
appear more bodies solidly assembled by eighteenth-century lines, which
they learned melt building and landscape second told me about a
harmonica e conchiusa conception of . Per life a placed gate to right of
the building one accesses in the principal courtyard, by three sides
adorned by Ariose façades. From them one goes then developing, with a
sumptuous building than through a myriad of androni, rooms and corridors
he follows the differences of level of the ground, penetrating the
Retrostante wood, becoming at last supplementing part.
Official version
The Tecchiena Castle,
architecture of the XVII century, in the Grancia charterhouse past,
rises to few kilometers from the town, in the flat one of Tecchiena on
those which once were the ruins of an old Maniero which was built in the
XI century to defend the opulent Tecchienesi countrysides. Today is
property as private, as the Badia.
Tecchiena really binds his secular history this castle, what, rising
between the territories of Alatri and Ferentino remained to the center
of a lot of battles. It was destroyed and rebuilt several times till the
Innocenzo IV Pope did not spread his protective wing on the Maniero and
grounds. Since the thirteenth century place of business but bought only
a century later became the feud till to the beginnings of the XIV
century was for sale messenger from the church from the monks Certosini
of Trisulti. He regulate you now Et Labora dominated century on the
Grancia which arrived to his maximum brightness in the XVIII. Then the
decline with the descended in Italy, and Ciociaria, of the Napoleoniche
troops.