Usigni

Usigni, 42°42N 12°56E, 1001 m (3284 ft) above sea‑level, is a village in Umbria, a frazione of the comune of Poggiodomo in the Province of Perugia a few hundred meters downstream from the source of the Tissino River.

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The once-fortified village is now insignificant, with only about 50 inhabitants, but was the home town of Fausto Cardinal Poli, private secretary to Pope Urban VIII, and benefited from his public-spiritedness: the church of S. Salvatore built by Poli in around 1640 was richly decorated with stuccos and frescos by Guidobaldo Abatini and Salvi Castellucci. Usigni is also very proud of an elegant well-head of the same period, attributed by some to Bernini, which it has adopted as its symbol.

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Umbria: Umbria is a mountainous region of central Italy, in the valley of the river Tiber. It is bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. The region covers 8,456 km² and has a population of 834,000 (2003 census)....

Frazione: A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other subdivisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere: these are the lowest subdivisions of the country. Most comuni have several frazioni, occasionally several dozens; but some...

Comune: In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....