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Sutri

Member of I Borghi più belli d'Italia

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In 728 the Lombard king Liutprand handed Sutri to Pope Gregory II, a gift seen as the start of the Church's temporal power. The town sits on a narrow tufa hill ringed by ravines beside the Via Cassia, and across the road lie its ancient sights: an amphitheatre carved out of the rock, dozens of Etruscan tombs and a Mithraeum later turned into a church.

Highlights

  • The Roman amphitheatre, carved entirely out of the tufa (IT)
  • Madonna del Parto, a rock-cut Mithraeum later converted into a church
  • The Etruscan necropolis, with dozens of tombs cut into the rock
  • The feast of Sant'Antonio on 17 January, with a cavalcade through the old town
  • The Sagra del Fagiolo della Regina, around the patron's feast on 16 September

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.

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Travel guide (Wikivoyage)

Sutri is a city in the province of Viterbo in the Italian region of Lazio, about 50 km to the north of Rome. The town itself is situated on a narrow hill of tufo rock on the northern side of the Via Cassia but the main sights are to the south of that road. In ancient times Sutri was considered to have been a strategic location and was conquered by the Etruscans and Romans.

Text from Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA

Nearby member villages

  1. Ronciglione · 4.6 km
  2. Vitorchiano · 25 km
  3. Bassano in Teverina · 26 km
  4. Castelnuovo di Porto · 27 km
  5. Lugnano in Teverina · 38 km

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