The name comes from the Latin Vivarium, and the most accepted explanation ties it to the springs: water comes out everywhere here, so much so that the Roman colony of Carsioli built an aqueduct on it, and the village still drinks from those same sources. In 1656 the plague reduced it from about 600 inhabitants to 182: almost seven out of ten died in a single year.
In 1799, against the pro-French Roman Republic, the people of Vivaro barricaded themselves in the castle: the population was later taken in by the neighbouring village, while twenty-five men led by the village blacksmith held out to the end. Immediately afterwards it was the inhabitants themselves who pulled the castle down and sold its stones — the Borghese prince, who owned it, complained in writing.
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