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Terni

The ancient "Interamna Nahartium", which means "land between two rivers", at Terni, the Nera and the Serra rivers, was the birthplace of the emperor Marcus Claudius Tacitus and of the author Cornelius Tacitus, among other important personages of the past.

Spoleto Cathedral

The Spoleto Cathedral, the city's most important civil monument, originally built in the Romanic style during the 12th century, has undergone subsequent modifications with the addition of a portico in the Renaissance style between 1491 and 1504 and the remodelling of the interior in the 17th century.

Fossil Forest of Dunarobba

The Dunarobba fossil forest nearby Avigliano Umbro, has been discovered in the 70s, but the work to bring it up to surface are not yet finished.

Todi

There are several theories on the origin of the name: the word Todi or from the etrurian "tudicolare", or even from "tutus" ("a fortified place").

St. Francis of Assisi

The church of St. Francis of Assisi rises up today in the place where the Saint had chosen to be buried, in the area of Assisi which was famous in the Middle Ages as the "hill of hell", or better the place that, at that time, was used for public executions.

Marmore Waterfalls

Taking the State Road "Valnerina" from Terni, you'll reach the very famous Marmore Waterfalls after only 7 km.

Foligno

Foligno is one of the very few Umbrian cities built in the plain. It rises up on the banks of Topino river where the river erupts into the valley in an area where extensive drainage of the large swamplands took place, first during Roman times, then during the 15th and 16th centuries, and finally in the 19th century.

St.Peter in the Valley

In the 5th century, Giovanni and Lazzaro, two Syrian hermits who, in search of a secluded place had scaled the Solenne mountain and descended into the Suppenga valley , were said to have founded the Eremitage, already a pagan nucleus, which later on became the Abbey St. Peter in the Valley.

Carsulae

Carsulae, an ancient Roman town erected along the course of the Flaminia Road, was abbandoned long-ago because of serious landslides which had rendered it necessary to move the seat of this important consular road.