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A legend has it that the village’s name derives from a passage of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles who, in his second coming in Italy and landed in Pisa and from there, in moving to Rome, whether spent in this area performing the miracle of to gush water to administer baptism. Hence the term “aquae ortus” (source of water).In fact the village was founded in the eleventh century, probably as a monastery built on the site of an earlier pagan cult.
