Until 1875 the village was called Civitavecchia. Then the council asked to change it to Duronia, the Samnite town Livy records as stormed by the consul Papirius Cursor in 293 BC: the clue was the Durone torrent running below. It also got them out of sharing a name with Civitavecchia in Lazio.
Above the village stands the Civita, the great rock with the remains of Samnite walls, defended on one side by the morconi, stone spires more than two hundred metres high; from the top you can count twenty-eight comuni with the naked eye. In the Monongah mine disaster in America, in 1907, thirty-six of the Italian miners killed were from here. The population today is 431.
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Near Duronia
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Outside Duronia, but an easy day trip away.