Bisentina isle (municipality of Capodimonte)
Piazza della Rocca, 4
01010 Capodimonte (VT) Italy
Tel. ++39 0761870043
The Bisentina isle (0.17 square km. of surface) is an interesting touristic excursion for those people who go to Capodimonte on the Bolsena lake. Between the village and the isle there a ferryboat’s service more than once a day on condition to have a minimum number of passengers. The moderate price of this service includes a little excursion on the Bisentina with guided tour to admire , in a little time, the almost uncontaminated nature consisting in thick holm-oak’s woods, italian style gardens, the delightful views and numerous monuments, for example the church Santi Giacomo e Cristoforo of Vignola, the franciscan convent, the valuable Rocchina, Santa Caterina temple and the octagonal plan of Sangallo built on an etruscan columbarium that rises from a rock’s buttress on the lake; furthermore the Crucifix chapel with its twentieth-century frescos and, the last one, the horrible Malta of the Popes, a prison for the life for clericals accused of heresy, composed by one miserable and dark cell inside a hill with light filtering from a little trap door situated 20 m. high. At the end of the excursion, on the way back, the tour sails panoramically round the isle where the sinuosity of its outlines shows west pleasant smal bays, on the north lies the majestic Tabor mountain, East rocky precipices on the azure lake, on the southern coast, the green area. The etruscan and roman left a few traces of its permanence on the isle. In the IX century the coastal populations took to it to escape to the saracen’s raids. In the middle of 1200 became property of the Bisenzio family who then burnt it out because of some disputes with the inhabitants. In 1261 Pope Urbano IV conquerred the isle again, in 1333 Ludovico il Bavaro, accused of heresy and excommunicated by the Pope, destroyed it again. From 1400 it was property of the Farnese family and it had a period of prosperity. It was visited by numerous Popes. In 1635 it was governed by Castro’s duke Odoardo Farnese who went to clash to the church which ended with the fully Castro’s destruction. After that, the Bisentina isle, like the Martana, went back to the church and then gived up. The princess Beatrice Spada Potenziani, wife of the duke Fieschi Ravaschieri, is the present proprietress.
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