{"id":4,"date":"2013-04-26T18:21:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T16:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/valentano-a-terrace-between-lake-and-sea\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T07:35:43","slug":"valentano-a-terrace-between-lake-and-sea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/home-en\/valentano-a-terrace-between-lake-and-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentano, a “terrace” between lake and sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

The English writer George Dennis visited Valentano during his well-known journey in Etruria, in June-July 1843, journey described in Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria<\/em> (1848). It was certainly a brief visit as the Etruscans left around Valentano few traces , maybe because the soil – mainly volcanic lapillo – it is not good to build and preserve hypogea<\/em>. On reaching the large square (now a public garden) facing lake Bolsena, outside Saint Martin’s door, and admiring the wonderful view you can enjoy from there, Dennis defined Valentano a wonderful terrace on the lake. Had he had the chance to admire the amazing view you can have from the Rocca Farnese (at the time the Rocca was a cloister), where you can see as far as the Thyrrenian Sea, he would have probably talked about a wonderful terrace between the lake and the sea<\/strong>. In fact, this small town, 538 m. above the sea level, on the Volsini chain, it’s a hilly place whose “sweet, good and healthy air” has always been praised.<\/p>\n

\"Valentano,<\/a>
Click on the image to enlarge<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1630, commissioned by Odoardo Farnese, the historian Benedetto Zucchi in his work: Informazione e cronica describes Valentano in this way: “it is situated up on a hill, close to a higher mountain full of chestnut woods which preserves Valentano from sirocco, the south-west wind, even though it is always struck from the north-east wind of tramontana…”.<\/p>\n

\"Bolsena<\/a><\/p>\n

From the nearby Mount Starnina you can enjoy an amazing view as, on clear days, the eye can reach the sparkling of the far sea.<\/p>\n

\"Bolsena<\/a><\/p>\n

On the opposite side, you can see lake Bolsena with its two islands.<\/p>\n

\"Bolsena<\/a><\/p>\n

The lake is navigable and it is also possible to visit the Bisentina island. Further information can be found on the web site of the company Navigazione \u00abLa Bussola\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The English writer George Dennis visited Valentano during his well-known journey in Etruria, in June-July 1843, journey described in Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (1848). It was certainly a brief visit as the Etruscans left around Valentano few traces , maybe because the soil – mainly volcanic lapillo – it is not good to build… Continue reading Valentano, a “terrace” between lake and sea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6030,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/6030"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}