Visit Italy! Best Places Travel Tips: Civita di Bagnoregio (Lazio)

• Report rights infringement
• published: 05 Aug 2015
• views: 1840

Visit Italy! In this video about travel tips Luca & Marina will show you the beautiful fairytale town of Civita di Bagnoregio. Only a bit more than an hour drive from Rome, this town has just started to draw the attention of the tourists from all over the world. "Civita was founded by Etruscans more than 2,500 years ago. Civita was the birthplace of Saint Bonaventure, who died in 1274. The location of his boyhood house has long since fallen off the edge of the cliff. By the 16th century, Civita was beginning to decline, becoming eclipsed by its former suburb Bagnoregio. At the end of the 17th century, the bishop and the municipal government were forced to move to Bagnoregio because of a major earthquake that accelerated the old town's decline. At that time, the area was part of the Papal States. In the 19th century, Civita's location was turning into an island and the pace of the erosion quickened as the layer of clay below the stone was reached in the area where today's bridge is situated. Bagnoregio continues as a small but prosperous town, while Civita became known in Italian as il paese che muore ("the town that is dying"). Civita has only recently been experiencing a tourist revival." Wikipedia Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSQ8QsPEIc4c6vHrWyc-5iQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/learnitalianwithdolcevita Twitter: https://twitter.com/GruppoDolceVita Instagram https://instagram.com/italian_dolce_vita/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dolcevitagruppo Follow us on the channel DOLCE VITA and learn not only the language but also the Italian culture, plus travel tips, etc.! Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSQ8QsPEIc4c6vHrWyc-5iQ This video: https://youtu.be/cqs4EEuGHbw