The Beauties Of Amerino

After 1000 it became a Comune and at beginning of the 1300's it was controlled by the Church. Was founded by the Umbrians in the 10th century B.C. along the via Amerina which connected south Etruria with Umbria. Was founded by the Umbrians in the 10th century. The walls of the acropolis are 8mt high and 3mt wide and are blocks of travertine. The cathedral was redone in the Baroque era and has a Romanesque bell tower and the centre of the town has some beautiful renaissance buildings, such as Palazzo Farattini. La Cavallerizza is a studfarm, nearby, well equipped and found in the park. The ancient road Amerina, following the course of the Tiber, in the great part navigable in Etruscan and Roman times, connected southern Etruria with Umbria. Those who still travel between the Tiber and the Nera today traverse a landscape marked by chalky gulleys, caverns and necropolis, narrow passages and hills on which rise fortresses and castles, villages and monasteries, Renaissance palaces, thermal springs. The foundations of geological, political, military and social history are to be found here. The names of the villages, fortified by Umbrian, Roman, Longobard and Frank to escape from the enemy or the floods of the Tiber, bear witness to the strategic function, but the area also bears the signs of an interesting geological history, such as the fossil forest of Dunarobba dating back about three million years. The artificial damming of the Tiber created the wellknown reservoir of Oasi di Alviano, which although extended is generally not very deep, and is characterized by a particular eco-system of a protected watery zone dedicated to fauna. Not only can the nature enthusiast find material of interest but also the enthusiast of antique history has plenty of scope. He can examine the sturdy walls of the acropolis of Amelia, municipium of Rome and river port in a strategic position between the Nera and the Tiber. The walls are eight metres in height and three metres in thickness. There is the majestic bronze statue of Germanico and the cisterns, impressive hydraulic works made up of ten large areas used to collect and conserve rain-water for the water supply of the town, that assured the links between Rome and L'Esarcato di Ravenna. It was also an important bishopric, included in the pontifical state in the fourteenth century. The typical gastronomy follows the dictates of an age-old tradition , simple and tasty, handed down verbally from mother to daughter: vegetable soups, omelette with wild-grown herbs and roast game, such as Amerino dove.