 The town was probably founded by the Roman Emperor Claudius to house workers in the drying of the "Lacus Fucinus" (Lake Fucino).The name derives from a nearby wood, "Lucus Angitiae", "Sacred Grove of Angitia," referring to a divine sorceress of the Marsi Italic tribe.During the Middle Ages it was a fief of the d'Avalos and then of the Colonna family