Information about Bagnoregio - Civita di Bagnoregio territory

BAGNOREGIO

BAGNOREGIO 

Bagnoregio municipality: Piazza S. Agostino n° 21 - Bagnoregio ( Viterbo ) Tel. 0761780815
Altitude of Viterbo province: 484 m on the sea level 
Area: 72,63 km² Inhabitants: 3.639 Bagnoregio ( Viterbo ) 
Booking of structures : 0763.390047

For lovers of the rural tourism that want to visit the Lazio region, we advise you to visit the page agritourism lazio (where you'll find a complete list of the Lazio agritourism); if you're searching for farmhouses, you can visit instead the page farmhouses Lazio (where you'll find a complete list of the Lazio farmhouses).  Select Lazio agritourism to go back to the home page and look at the full list of structures of Itinerary.

Bagnoregio is a town of 3.600 inhabitants, placed at 28 Km from Viterbo. In the past, the town was known with the name of Bagnorea, and is nowadays famous for Bonaventura, important priest and philosopher of the XIIIth century.




CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO

Civita di Bagnoregio is a town of Viterbo province in Central Italy, a frazione of the comune of Bagnoregio, 2 km (about 1 mile) W. It is about 145 km (90 mi) north of Rome.

It was founded by Etruscans over twenty-five hundred years ago, has seen its population dwindle to just fifteen residents over the course of the 20th century, and has only recently been experiencing a tourist revival, due in great measure to the American travel guide Rick Steves who popularized it in the 1990s.

The town is noted for its striking position atop a plateau of friable volcanic tufa overlooking the Tiber river valley, in constant danger of destruction as its edges fall off, leaving the buildings built on the plateau to crumble. As of 2004, there are plans to reinforce the plateau with steel rods to prevent further geological damage.

The city is also much admired for its architecture, some spanning several thousand years. Civita di Bagnoregio owes much of its unaltered condition to its relative isolation: the town was able to withstand most intrusions of modernity as well as the destruction wrought by two world wars.