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partly cloudy, 46FTERNI was the unlikely birthplace of one of the world's most famous saints, St Valentine , bishop of the town until his martyrdom in 273 and now entombed in his personal basilica at San Valentino, a village 2km to the southwest. A less romantic city, however, would be hard to imagine. Terni's important arms and steel industries made it a natural target for Allied bombing in 1944, and eighty percent of the town was reduced to rubble, including, sadly, the best part of its Roman and medieval heritage. Rebuilding replaced what was lost with a grey grid-iron city straight out of postwar eastern Europe; it also put … more »
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from the web- Italy's Umbria Region: New World Threads in an Old World Cloak from GoNomad
For me, Terni's highlight was the Marmore Waterfall, a rare Roman design... more »
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Terni is an important industrial town in southern Umbria.
- Italy's Umbria Region: New World Threads in an Old World Cloakfrom Gonomad
For me, Terni's highlight was the Marmore Waterfall, a rare Roman design mistake in 271 B.C. that... more »