Category: City of Narni
In the historical building of the former orphanage “Beata Lucia”, in Piazza Galeotto Marzio, is hosted the Open-air Museum of the Plein-Air Painters (Museo Diffuso dei Plenaristi), an itinerary traced along the Nera River discovering the locations where these artists first started painting two centuries ago. The Beata Lucia The path with its real and virtual […]
Along the homonymous narrow street which goes up to the Rocca Albornoz of Narni, the Feronia Wellspring, use even today, preserve the memory of a place devoted to this italic divinity, connect to the cult of the waters and venerated by the people of central Italy also before of the coming of romans. A spring […]
The Albornoz Fortress, surrounded by a green nature, rises as a giant on the Maggiore mountain to dominate the Town of Narni , the via Flaminia and the landscape which you can enjoy on the Gole del Nera. The fortress of Narnia. Expression of the papal restoration made by the Cardinal Albornoz during the period […]
Along the itinerary of Via Flaminia, which enters Narni from the south becoming Vva Vittorio Emanuele, there is Roman Gate that in the XVIII century impressed the Marquis De Sade on a visit to Narni. The most impressive gate of Narni. Placed in the past in the entrance of Via XX settembre, on what was […]
Faced on the slope which looks towards the valley, Pietra Gate (called even Porta delle Prede) is a suggestive medieval structure which give the name to the homonymous path which, from the old town of Narni, allows (and allowed) to reach the Gole del Nera and its itinerary cycle-pedestrian. Pietra Gate: one of the most […]
One of the most beautiful and interesting architectural and artistic complexes of Umbria, even for the quality of the artwork inside of it, is the Church of Sant’Agostino. The beauty of the Church of Sant’Agostino. Where it is arises the big mole of the complex of the Church of Sant’Agostino, there was in the past […]
The ancient and austere Fiera Gate, in the past called Porta San Vittore from the name of a church near by, there is on the side of the walls of Narni which faced through Augustus Bridge and Narni Scalo, close from what was the House of Erasmo Gattamelata. The history of one of the most […]
The House of Erasmo Il Gattamela, where born one of the biggest captains of fortune of the Middle-Age, is along the walls of the town close to Fiera Gate. The birthplace of Erasmo da Narni called Il Gattamelata. Born in 1370 from Paolo and mother Melania Gattello, Erasmo from Narni was educated at the school […]
Placed at the end of Via Mazzini and enriched by beautiful palaces which faced it, Piazza Galeotto owes its name to the big humanist from Narni of the XV Century. Piazza Galeotto Marzio in Narni. Already called Piazza Cajola, it took its actual shape in the first half of the 1700, classified as the most […]
The charming Church of Santa Restituta is meeting going down through Via Mazzini before Piazza Galeotto Marzio. The Church of Santa Restituta and the Monastery of the Clares. Was the bishop of Narni Pierdonato Cesi in 1563 to give, at the instigation of the noble Paolo Orsini from Narni, the ancient parish church of Santa […]
