Civita bagnoregio, Civita bagnoregio

The most beautifu ldefinition than Civita of bagnoregio is of its son Bonaventura Tecchi: "the city that dies"

To the borders with the Umbria, Civita of Bagnoregio is known like "the city that dies" because the erosion and of the slow slipping of the rock volcanic on which the village was born. Connected to the firm earth from a bridge, in the village it remains the Romanesque church of S. Donato and the renaissance palaces of the Colesanti and the Alemanni. Excellent the taverns where bread can be tasted breamed with above oil and tomato and other accompanied by a good person selection of wines. It is caught up covering the state road them Cassia until Montefiascone in order turning in direction of Orvieto, or with the A1 freeway exiting to the casello of Orvieto. Bagnoregio is situated to average road between Orvieto and the lake of Bolsena.

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The ancient Bagnorea, today Bagnoregio, native land of Saint Bonaventura, was a connected time to Civita from one earth language that, although earthquakes and devastations, conserve still the Romanesque-gotica church of Sant' Augustin, the cathedral of Saint Nicholas with bell tower and the interesting Communal Palace.

Civita of bagnoregio

Civita... "la city that dies"

It is situated on the top of a hill, castled on a spur of rock and around an ample basin rippled from hills that they are crumbled.... shiver landscape around her and however suggestive.... that it seems to admonish on the future of its destiny.

Civita of bagnoregio

Chiesa of S. Donato

Civita of bagnoregio

In front of the Belvedere, connected to the world from an only one and tightened bridge of 300 meters, here Civita of bagnoregio, supported sweetly on a promontory, with its forelock of medieval houses.

Civita of bagnoregio

The volcanic cliff hill on which Civita of bagnoregio rises is mined to the base from the continuous erosion of two brookletsthat they slide in goes them below and from the action of rains and the wind: one is therefore crumbling, slowly but inexorably

Civita of bagnoregio

Penetrating itself in the lived one, the first important monument that is met is the Door S. Maria, surmounted by a couple of lions that they claw two human heads the tyrants' symbol defeated by the bagnoresi.

More ahead the way S. Maria is opened in the main public square, where the Romanesque Church of S. Donato can be admired, In it they are guarded a stupendous wood Crucifix of the school of Donatello.

To see also the Romanesque-gotica Church of the Announced one, placed side by side from a slender bell tower of the year 1735 and rich of pictorial work.

Remarkable the chiostro realized in the year 1524 on design of architect Michele Sammichel and the central well of the year 1604, work of Ippolito Scalza.

On the edge she orients them of the Lookout, where there was the Franciscan convent, she is dug in tufo a cove dictates of S. Bonaventura.