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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 Caetani 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. Sermoneta, Italia Judaica
Sermoneta is the hometown of the Humanism Aldo Manuzio and eighteenth-century painter Antonio Cavallucci.
Scenes of the 2007 film Silk featuring Keira Knightley were filmed in Sermoneta.
The 2015 short film Italian Miracle was filmed in the town.
In 1978, an episode of Return of the Saint was filmed there: the town was known as Santa Maria.
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