Corchia

The town was built in the Middle Ages along the Via Francigena, traveled at the time by numerous pilgrims heading from Northern Europe to Rome;

in fact, the first documents testifying to its existence date back to the 12th and 13th centuries.

In 1312 the village became a fief of the Sanvitale counts, who kept it until 1733; it was then purchased by the Tarasconi Smeraldi counts, who maintained the rights until their abolition sanctioned by Napoleon in 1805.

In 1865, the hope of finding gold having failed, which turned out to be pyrite, the exploitation of the surrounding mineral deposits began; to the first concessions for the excavation of copper in 1886, those for iron, zinc and feldspar were added in the following years. The economy of the village remained linked to the mines until 1943, when the construction sites were definitively closed.

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