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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I VEII.—THE CITY
- CHAPTER II VEII.—THE CEMETERY
- CHAPTER III CASTEL GIUBILEO.—FIDENÆ
- CHAPTER IV SUTRI.—SUTRIUM
- CHAPTER V NEPI.—NEPETE
- CHAPTER VI CIVITA CASTELLANA.—FALERII (VETERES.)
- CHAPTER VII FALLERI.—FALERII (NOVI)
- CHAPTER VIII FESCENNIUM
- CHAPTER IX ORTE—HORTA
- CHAPTER X FERONIA AND CAPENA
- CHAPTER XI MONTE CIMINO—MONS CIMINUS
- CHAPTER XII VITERBO.—SURRINA
- CHAPTER XIII FERENTO.—FERENTINUM
- CHAPTER XIV BOMARZO
- CHAPTER XV CASTEL D' ASSO.—CASTELLUM AXIA
- CHAPTER XVI NORCHIA.—OROLE?
- CHAPTER XVII BIEDA.—BLERA
- CHAPTER XVIII CORNETO. TARQUINII—THE CEMETERY
- CHAPTER XIX TARQUINII—THE CITY
- CHAPTER XX GRAVISCÆ
- CHAPTER XXI VULCI
- CHAPTER XXII MUSIGNANO
- CHAPTER XXIII TOSCANELLA.—TUSCANIA
- CHAPTER XXIV STATONIA
- CHAPTER XXV PITIGLIANO AND SORANO
- CHAPTER XXVI SOVANA.—SUANA
- CHAPTER XXVII BOLSENA—VOLSINII
- CHAPTER XXVIII MONTE FIASCONE—FANUM VOLTUMNÆ?
- CHAPTER XXIX ORVIETO
- Titles in the series
- Plate section
CHAPTER XVII - BIEDA.—BLERA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I VEII.—THE CITY
- CHAPTER II VEII.—THE CEMETERY
- CHAPTER III CASTEL GIUBILEO.—FIDENÆ
- CHAPTER IV SUTRI.—SUTRIUM
- CHAPTER V NEPI.—NEPETE
- CHAPTER VI CIVITA CASTELLANA.—FALERII (VETERES.)
- CHAPTER VII FALLERI.—FALERII (NOVI)
- CHAPTER VIII FESCENNIUM
- CHAPTER IX ORTE—HORTA
- CHAPTER X FERONIA AND CAPENA
- CHAPTER XI MONTE CIMINO—MONS CIMINUS
- CHAPTER XII VITERBO.—SURRINA
- CHAPTER XIII FERENTO.—FERENTINUM
- CHAPTER XIV BOMARZO
- CHAPTER XV CASTEL D' ASSO.—CASTELLUM AXIA
- CHAPTER XVI NORCHIA.—OROLE?
- CHAPTER XVII BIEDA.—BLERA
- CHAPTER XVIII CORNETO. TARQUINII—THE CEMETERY
- CHAPTER XIX TARQUINII—THE CITY
- CHAPTER XX GRAVISCÆ
- CHAPTER XXI VULCI
- CHAPTER XXII MUSIGNANO
- CHAPTER XXIII TOSCANELLA.—TUSCANIA
- CHAPTER XXIV STATONIA
- CHAPTER XXV PITIGLIANO AND SORANO
- CHAPTER XXVI SOVANA.—SUANA
- CHAPTER XXVII BOLSENA—VOLSINII
- CHAPTER XXVIII MONTE FIASCONE—FANUM VOLTUMNÆ?
- CHAPTER XXIX ORVIETO
- Titles in the series
- Plate section
Summary
Some things in it you may meet with, which are out of the common road; a Duke there is, and the scene lies in Italy.
—Beaumont and Fletcher.Another Etruscan site of great interest, but very little known, is Bieda, a village five or six miles south-west of Vetralla. It is the representative of the ancient town of Blera, of which its name is an Italian corruption. Blera could not have been a place of importance, under either Etruscans or Romans. Not once is it mentioned by ancient historians, and its name only occurs in the catalogues of geographers. We know that it was a small town at the commencement of the Empire; that it was on the Via Clodia, between the Forum Clodii and Tuscania; and there ends our knowledge of it from ancient sources. That it had an existence in Etruscan times, we learn, not from the pages of history, but from the infallible records of its extant monuments.
Bieda is best visited from Vetralla. The road for the first two miles is the highway to Corneto and Civita Vecchia. We then turned off to the left, crossed some downs by a mere bridle-path, forded a stream in a wild, deep hollow, and reached the brow of a hill, whence the village of Bieda came into view, crowning an opposite height. The scenery here was very romantic. The height of Bieda was lofty and precipitous, and as usual was a tongue of rock at the junction of two glens, which separated it from corresponding heights of equal abruptness.
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- The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria , pp. 260 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1848