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Encyclopedia > Clitunno River

The Clitunno River, in Antiquity the Clitumnus, is a river in Umbria, Italy. The name is of uncertain origin, but it was also borne by the river god. The Clitunno rises at 42°49.5′N 12°46′E from a spring within a dozen meters of the ancient Via Flaminia near the town of Campello sul Clitunno between Spoleto and Trevi: the spring was celebrated as a great beauty spot by the Romans but also by Byron and Giosuè Carducci; in the 19th century it was planted with willows, and jealously monitored for pollution, it is open today as a paying tourist attraction. Umbria is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. ... The Via Flaminia was a Roman road leading from Rome to Ariminum (Rimini), and was the most important route to the north. ... Spoleto (Latin: Spoletium), 42°44′ N 12°44′ E, an ancient town in the Italian province of Perugia in east central Umbria, at 385 meters (1391 ft) above sea-level on a foothill of the Apennines. ... TREVI was a network - or forum - of national officials from ministries of justice and the interior in the European Community created during the European Council Summit in Rome, 1-2 december 1975. ... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... Lord Byron, Anglo-Scottish poet George Gordon Byron (later George Gordon Noel) 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (January 22, 1788–April 19, 1824) was an Anglo-Scottish poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. ... Giosuè Carducci (July 27, 1835 – near Lucca, February 16, 1907) was an Italian poet, one of Italys greatest, and a teacher. ...


The Clitunno then flows 60 kilometers (36 miles) through the east Umbrian plain, past the Tempietto del Clitunno and the towns of Pissignano, Cannaiola, Trevi and Bevagna to join the Topino River, a tributary of the Tiber River, near Cannara. Though its current is usually sluggish, it is subject, like many other rivers in the east Umbrian plain, to sudden flooding: it was only tamed completely in the 19th century, and is largely banked by levees. Cannaiola, a village in the Italian province of Perugia in east central Umbria in the floodplain of the Clitunno river, 42°52N 12°43E; altitude 218 m (715 ft) above sea-level. ... TREVI was a network - or forum - of national officials from ministries of justice and the interior in the European Community created during the European Council Summit in Rome, 1-2 december 1975. ... Bevagna (Latin Mevania), an ancient town, now a comune in the central part of the Italian province of Perugia, (Umbria), 42°56N 12°37E; at 207 m (679 ft) above sea_level in the flood plain of the Topino river (anc. ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... Tiber River in Rome The River Tiber (Italian Tevere), the third-longest river in Italy at 406 km (252 miles) after the Po and the Adige, flows through Rome in its course from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea, which it reaches in two branches that cross the suburbs of... Cannara is a town and comune on the Topino River in the floodplain of central Umbria, in the province of Perugia, , 197 m (646 ft) above sea‑level: it is about 7 km west of Spello and 9 km north of Bevagna. ...


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Spoleto district - The Springs of the River Clitunno (207 words)
Spoleto district - The Springs of the River Clitunno
In ancient times there was a greater abundance of water and the river was deeper: the emperor Caligola could go the river with boats when he came and consulted the worshipped oracles of Clitunno, the god of the river.
On the river banks there were, at that time, a small temple and other sacred places, magnificent villas and spas.
Clitunno River at AllExperts (178 words)
The Clitunno River, in Antiquity the Clitumnus, is a river in Umbria, Italy.
The Clitunno then flows 60 kilometers (36 miles) through the east Umbrian plain, past the Tempietto del Clitunno and the towns of Pissignano, Cannaiola, Trevi and Bevagna to join the Topino River, a tributary of the Tiber River, near Cannara.
Though its current is usually sluggish, it is subject, like many other rivers in the east Umbrian plain, to sudden flooding: it was only tamed completely in the 19th century, and is largely banked by levees.
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