3-room flat via Cesare Battisti, Bassano in Teverina

Bassano in Teverina - In a quiet area close to all services, we offer a raw attic consisting of a large living room, kitchen, two bedrooms, bathroom, closet and large terrace. systems already in place.

The origin of the town is extremely uncertain. The ending of the name, deriving from the Latin adjectival suffix -anus, takes us back to Roman times and, combined with the root of the name, recalls the noble name (Bassus) of a person who owned large estates in the area: Bassus>Bassanus>Bassano.

The center of Bassano in Teverina was born on a tufaceous spur in a position slightly set back from the Tiber valley, of which it overlooks a part. Its position, hidden by the surrounding hills, does not easily allow visibility of neighboring places such as Mugnano, Attigliano, Chia and Bomarzo. However, a sighting and communication system must have existed thanks to the Sasso Quadro (324 m above sea level) and Poggio Zucco (318 m above sea level) hills, directly connected to Bassano through ancient road routes and sites of ancient settlements, evidenced by the remains of buildings and other buildings.

Downstream from the town, not far from the Tiber, is Lake Vladimonio or Lake Vadimone, locally known as the "Laghetto", described by Pliny the Younger as "a wheel laid to rest, with a completely regular circumference, of a paler, greener and more intense color than the marine". Today almost completely underground, it is periodically fed by sulphurous springs which pour milky waters into it, which, together with the marsh vegetation and mineral deposits, form masses of a certain consistency which must have suggested the idea of the "floating islands" of which some Latin authors wrote. In Roman times the lake, called Lacus Vladimonis, in addition to being larger, was also considered sacred: near its banks the Etruscans performed periodic rites and celebrations, while the Romans immersed their weapons in its waters to make them unconquered.

Built on the last slopes of the Cimini mountains, Bassano represented an obligatory crossing point along the route from Soriano to the Tiber and also exercised an important strategic function on the valley. Already inhabited in the Etruscan era, it was abandoned during the domination of the Romans, who had conquered the entire surrounding area and conquered the territory after two bloody battles: the first in 309 BC, under the leadership of the consul Quinto Fabio Rulliano and the second in 283 BC , with which they definitively defeated the Etruscans and the Senones, a population of Gallic origin who had previously occupied the territory. According to legend, on that occasion the waters of the Tiber river turned red and carried with them the corpses of the enemies to Rome, announcing the victory to the population. Once they took possession of the place, the Romans, to consolidate the acquired dominion over the Etruscan people and supervise the Tiber navigation, founded a castrum on these hills, identified with the name of Castrum Amerinum (it is believed to be the current Palazzolo di Vasanello), standing to a topographic map created by the Mattei family in the second half of the 17th century. The site was recovered between the 9th and 10th centuries when, under the threat of the Hungarians, it regained importance both for its easily defensible position and for its proximity to the Via Amerina, a Roman road still in use in those times.--9adbe358a34023651810981e9c9261cf!