Sermoneta

Sermoneta
Comune
Comune di Sermoneta
Sermoneta from above in October 2007
Coat of arms
Location of Sermoneta
Sermoneta Location of Sermoneta in Italy Show map of Italy Sermoneta Sermoneta (Lazio) Show map of Lazio
Coordinates: 41°33′N 12°59′E / 41.550°N 12.983°E / 41.550; 12.983
Country	Italy
Region	Lazio
Province	Latina (LT)
Frazioni	Carrara, Doganella, Monticchio, Pontenuovo, Sermoneta Scalo, Tufette
Government
• Mayor	Giuseppina Giovannoli (Civic list)
Area [1]
• Total	44 km2 (17 sq mi)
Elevation	257 m (843 ft)
Population  (31 July 2015[2])[3]
• Total	9,836
• Density	220/km2 (580/sq mi)
Demonym	Sermonetani
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	04013
Dialing code	0773
Patron saint	St. Joseph
Saint day	March 19
Website	Official website

Sermoneta is a hill town and comune in the province of Latina (Lazio), central Italy.

It is a walled hill town, with a 13th-century Romanesque church, the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta (sometimes erroneously called a cathedral) and a massive castle, built by the Annibaldi family then purchased and expanded by Caetani family in the 13th century. The Cistercian Valvisciolo Abbey is located nearby. The churches of San Giuseppe (mainly 16th century) and San Michele (mainly 12th century) still stand.

A Jewish community engaged in the commerce of fish and lending is attested there from the 13th to the 16th centuries, when the community was removed following Pope Pius V's papal bull of expulsion, Hebraeorum gens sola (1569), which restricted Jewish residency to Rome and Ancona.^[4]

Sermoneta is the hometown of the humanist Aldo Manuzio and eighteenth-century painter Antonio Cavallucci.^{[citation needed]}

Scenes of the 2007 film Silk featuring Keira Knightley were filmed in Sermoneta.^{[citation needed]}

The 2015 short film Italian Miracle was filmed in the town.^{[citation needed]}

In 1978, an episode of Return of the Saint was filmed there: the town was known as Santa Maria.^{[citation needed]}