Single-family detached house via dell'Entradoro, Taizzano, Narni

Narni, in the first countryside, first floor composed of living room, dining room, kitchen, two bedrooms, bathroom, cellars, warehouses and garden. Immediately habitable.

The area around Narni was already inhabited in the Palaeolithic, as attested by the findings in some of the caves that make up the territory. Around the beginning of the first millennium BC populations of Apennine culture of Indo-European origin, the Osco-Umbrians settled in the area calling their settlement Nequinum. Appuleius Pansa, however, obtaining unsuccessful results given his impervious position [4]. It took over a year to accomplish the feat, which took place in 299 BC thanks to the betrayal of two local people who allowed the Romans to enter the walls. Thus it became a Roman colony and a strategic center along the Via Flaminia. To punish the support given to the Gauls, and considering Nequinum a bad omen (in Latin, nequeo means "I can't", and nequitia means "uselessness".), the Romans changed the name of the city to the Latin of Narnia[5][6 ][7], from the name of the nearby river Nar, the current Nera.

There are not many news relating to that period, it is thought[8] however that the city may have played a role of a certain importance during the course of the first two Punic Wars. Along the Nera river, near the hamlet of Stifone, where the port of the Roman city was once located, the archaeological site of what appears to be a Roman shipyard has in fact recently been identified.[9]. Of the ancient navigability of the Nera river we also have news on Strabone[10] and Tacitus[11]. The passage in which the consul Gneo Calpurnio Pisone, in 19, decided to embark at Narni with his wife Plancina in order to reach Rome without arousing suspicion is known. It became a Municipium in 90 BC In the year 30 AD Nerva was born there, the last Italic among the Roman emperors. The mention of Narnia by Tertullian, in the Apologeticum, in a list of "false gods" drawn up in the first century, dates back to the early Christian era, as the city was the ancient home of the god Visidianus (Narnensium Visidianus).

Unknown with certainty when the city of Narnia changed its name to Narni, but probably this happened gradually over time starting from the thirteenth century [without source] and then becoming effective after the French revolution [without source], even if until the end of the nineteenth century, inscriptions with the ancient name of Narnia were still found on tombstones and in official writings [citation needed].

The writer Walter Hooper, who was among other things secretary and biographer of CS Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, he has also dealt several times in his books with the origins of the name "Narnia" as noted for example on page 306 of his book co-authored with Roger Lancelyn Green: CS Lewis: A Biography, published in 2002. Below is an excerpt which reports what Lewis said to Hooper:

«When Walter Hooper asked CS Lewis where he had found the word Narnia, Lewis showed him his atlas Murray's Small Classical Atlas, ed. GB Grundy (1904), which he had bought when he was reading the classics with his tutor Kirkpatrick at Great Bookham [1914-1917]. On page 8 of this atlas there is a map of Italy with inscriptions in Latin. Lewis had underlined the name of a small town called Narnia, simply because he loved the sound of the word. Narnia - or "Narni" in Italian - is located in Umbria, halfway between Rome and Assisi. which the two cities, at war with each other, had coalesced. Once killed, Perugia kept the Griffin's bones (white) and Narni the skin (red) as a trophy. For this reason the Griffin of Perugia is white and that of Narni is red.

Coat of Arms
The coat of arms of the city of Narni, granted with Presidential Decree of 12 October 1951, has the following blazon:

«silver with a red griffin, language of the same."--fb4bf17c809335cb82f7e225d30e07e9!