The City of Bettona |
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Etruscan origins, Vettona was an important centre on the leit riverside of the Tiber river, probably rose around the VIII-VIIth century a.C. Endowed with a Forum and a temple, it was fenced with walls, built with blocks of sandstone, it was Episcopal Seat, united to Assisi after barbarian invasion. With the ending of the Roman Empire it suffer Gothic, Byzantine and invasions and devastations as well as fights between Guelphic and ghibellines in the middleage. Provided with a castle in the XIIth century, maintains its own autonomy until 1352, when it surrendered to Perugia which destroyed it after a long and memorable siege. Rebuild in 1367 by Cardinal Albornoz, it belonged for a short time to the Church and in 1648 it returned definitively to the Holy See. |
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