Apartment via Piè di Marmo, Centro, Orte

In the heart of the historic center of Orte we offer for sale a semi-detached house on two levels comprising kitchen, living room, hallway, three bedrooms, two terraces and a bathroom.
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Bonifazi Orte Agency

Of ancient origins , Orte (Horta, Hortae, Hurta) was probably a colony of Veii or Tarquinia, city of the Etruscan federation.

Orte, located just upstream of the confluence of the Nera into the Tiber, already an important river port ("Ex Tuscis frumentum Tiberi venit : eo sustentata est plebs", Livy, Lib. II), became the vital center of the Roman road communication network with the construction of the Via Amerina, in 241-240 BC, following the capture of Falerii and the stabilization of Roman dominion to the north of Veii.

Orte constituted, from then until the 16th century, when at the behest of Pope Sixtus V Peretti the reconstruction of the bridge on the Via Flaminia (Ponte Felice) was carried out, the crossing point of the Tiber north of Rome. The bridge, previously wooden, was replaced by a masonry bridge in the imperial age (so-called Augustus Bridge, whose substructures can still be admired along the river to the north-west of the cliff).

The stretch of the Via Amerina which It concerns the Orto area and descends from the Castle of Bassano (today Bassano in Teverina) via a steep stretch of road, of which it is still possible to see the ancient paving stones during a pleasant walk. Having reached the foot of the Bassano plateau, the Amerina continued, flanked by a very probably navigable canal (even of this, today a rural ditch, it is possible to see the remains of the opus quadratum which constituted its embankment), until it reached the course of the Tiber, near the ancient river port of Seripola. From here it proceeded parallel to the river, up to the Bridge, where the crossing took place towards the so-called Campagna Trasteverina (Ortano territory) and then to the Amelia territory. The ancient course of the Via Amerina is still dotted with towers, dating back to the Byzantine period (Byzantine Corridor). The bridge remained functional throughout the Middle Ages, and acquired even more interest following the collapse of the Narni Bridge in 1054.

Since the 8th century with the donation of Liutprando Orte has been one of the oldest centers that were part of the first nucleus of the Papal State.

The period of greatest wealth for the city was the late Middle Ages, in which it was able to gain considerable autonomy and independence. Retaining the episcopal seat (from 453), with the privilege of the election of its own bishop by the local Chapter, Orte assumed the status of "free municipality" (of which it still preserves testimony today in the white and red colors of the banner) and equipped itself of its own statutes, to regulate a complex system of government.

The bridge was repeatedly destroyed following the flooding of the river; Monsignor Lando Leon