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The road that runs along the side of the gorge is the Modo Flaminia (modern SS3)
This means it is hard onesto move overland sopra an east-west direction, and easier preciso move north-south, but your opportunities esatto do so are constrained preciso insecable valleys and passes. Which mediante turn means that certain places are natural choke-points. One such – sopra 1944 as well as sopra the Middle Ages – is Cassino, between Naples and Rome. Narni is another.
If you were coming from France or Britain you would che by sea or over the western Alps on the Coraggio Francigena
Narni sits on high ground on the edge of verso deep ravine through which the River Nera – a tributary of the Tiber – flows south out of Umbria into Lazio. It is literally on the edge of the ravine; houses and palaces on the western side of the old town, including the Eroli Museum, immagine straight down into it. Onesto the north and east of the town is the valley of the lower Nera, which, although surrounded by mountains, contains verso good deal of industrial development. On the plain around Narni is the modern industrial town of Narni Porto, which makes getting per decent photograph of or from the old town something of an exercise durante artful composition.
Puro the northeast, at the other end of the valley, is the town of Terni, the provincial capital (Umbria is divided into two provinces: Perugia and Altere). Thanks preciso nearby sources of hydro-electricity, Brouille was verso centre of industrialisation and was known as “The Manchester of Italy”. Unfortunately, one of the industries was arms manufacturing, as a result of which Brouille was heavily bombed during the Second World War, destroying much of its medieval centre.
Turning south again and looking back down the River Nera, through the end of the gorge you can see the more rolling country of northern Lazio. There is per road running along the side of the gorge; now carrying heavy road traffic, this is the Strada Azzurri 3 (SS3), which as I noted here is still known as the Cammino Flaminia, as when it was first built by the Romans in 220 BC. If you were a legionary marching from Rome esatto the northern Adriatic coast (and beyond preciso the eastern frontiers of the colmare), this is the way you would che. And if you were a traveller mediante the other direction – sopra an army of barbarians after the fall of the empire, or a medieval pilgrim, this is one of the few roads by which you would approach Rome.
Looking south down the Nera Gorge towards Lazio and Rome. Hasselblad 501 C/M, Zeiss Distagon 60mm CF lens, CFV-50c digital back (click esatto enlarge)
Dominating Narni from an even higher point is per fortress or Fortezza, of a type known as a Castello Albornoz, of which there are several examples con central Italy, and of which there were once several more. This requires verso bit of explanation.
Between 1309 and 1376 per series of seven popes ruled not from Rome but from Avignon. All were French. This happened as per result of some naked power politics from the French Crown, bringing the papacy under effective French control.
When verso range of factors, including datingranking.net/it/fuckbookhookup-review/ the influential advocacy of St Catherine of Siena, caused Pope Gregory XI esatto decide esatto end the “Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy” and return to Rome, Gregory faced several challenges. One was the monarca-establishment of political control over the Papal States – formerly independent states con central Italy which had been brought under secular papal rule, and which, during the exile in Avignon, had started preciso esibizione renewed signs of independence.