Viterbo
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Viterbo is a city and comune (municipality) in the Lazio region of Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo.
Piazza di San Lorenzo and the loggia of the Papal Palace
View from space of Viterbo and Rome
Etruscan warrior, found near Viterbo, dated circa 500 BC
The Palace of the Popes – In the background the bell-tower of the cathedral
Guelphs and Ghibellines
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The Guelphs and Ghibellines were factions supporting respectively the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor in the Italian city-states of Central Italy and Northern Italy during the Middle Ages.
A 14th-century conflict between the militias of the Guelph and Ghibelline factions in the comune of Bologna, from the Croniche of Giovanni Sercambi of Lucca
The defence of the Carroccio during the battle of Legnano (1176) by Amos Cassioli (1832–1891)
Battle of Montaperti, workshop of Pacino di Buonaguida
Battle of Campaldino on a fresco in San Gimignano