Torre di Stracciacappa

The Stracciacappa Tower was a medieval lookout outpost located on the edge of the basin of the same name, which dried up completely following the construction of the canal connecting Lake Martignano and Lake Bracciano, which took place in 1828.
Stracciacappe or Stirpacappe was first called Paparesco; and with this name it was part of the Massa Clodiana confirmed by Leo IX (1053) at the Vatican Chapter. The castle in the century. XIII belonged to Curtabraca. With the name of Paparesco it is mentioned in the chronicles of Viterbo among the castles destroyed by the Viterbo militias in 1241 in the war against the Romans and against Cardinal Ranieri Capocci. It figures, with Martignano and Trevignano, in the aforementioned transaction of 1258 between Pietro di Vico and the Curtabraca.
Emilia, widow of Pandolfo dell'Anguillara, bought Stirpacappe on 18 November 1294 from Braca di Gregorio di Cencio Curtabraca. But he soon returned to Curtabraca. The aforementioned Braca donated it with the fortress and the tower in 1322 (21 May) to the Hospital of S. Spirito in Sassia. Along with other assets of the hospital, it appears to have been given to Giordano Orsini by the Antipope Clement VII in 1378, but it does not appear that he took possession of it. Authorized in 1456 by Calisto III, the hospital sold it to Napoleon and Roberto Orsini.
In the following 16th century it passed to the Abbey of S. Paolo (as an estate) and was sold by it in 1528 to Celsus of Nepi. Isabella Celsi, widow of Domenico Capranica, sister and heir of Lorenzo Celsi, Bishop of Castrense, sold the Stracciacappe estate (115 rubbia) with instr. Ferracutus of 6 February 1604 to Giovanni Niccolini, Minister of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, for a person to be named (who was Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, as appears from the marginal note to the instrument). In the following century it passed to the Justinians.
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