HISTORY

Valderica, inhabited since the eighteenth century, was a place characterized by the peasant work accompanied by season rhythms, imposed and taught by the “benedettina” tradition.
Not far from the house the benedettini monks, followers of Saint Benedetto of Norcia, to find again silence and contemplation, built, in not well documented times, an hermitage on the top of the Mount Saint Antonio, near the home hospice of Saint Bernardo, intended for travellers shelter.
Following the residence path, some remains of the walls, which the monks run through to reach the hermitage , abandoned after a big snowfall which didn't allow the timely achievement of supplies from the village, can still be seen.
In the seventh century, the same monks had founded Lamoli, its castle, its hermitage and its abbey consecrated to Saint Michele Arcangelo and, during the barbaric invasions, the monastery, the hermitage and the home hospice, surrounded by a thick brushwood, soon became protected places, centres for prayers, contemplation, but also for job, agriculture, tree cutting and not only.
These religious places became art cradles: here, miniature, painting, goldsmith's workshop, astronomy, music, the mysteries representation, the study of science, medicine, the virtues of herbs and the experiments on natural medicines.
In the nineteenth century Lamoli, the ancient Castrum Lamularum or Lamule castle, become a real village, joined an independent province inside the Church State and it was named Massa Tribaria.
Massa, because it was formed by a series of fieves and castles and by their corresponding territories, Trabaria, because most of its lands was cultivated with white fir trees, red fir trees and high stem plants, which were worked with beams in the Lamoli saw-mills to be taken then until the passage of Bocca Trabaria, rolling until the Tevere river especially to reach Rome where they were used for monuments building, included the Saint Peter basilica.