Orte is a town, comune , former Catholic bishopric and Latin titular see in the province of Viterbo , in the central Italian region of Lazio , located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Rome and about 24 kilometres (15 mi) east of Viterbo .
5-588: Orte is situated in the Tiber Valley on a high tuff cliff, encircled to North and East from a handle of the Tevere river. It is an important road and rail hub. The Etruscans inhabited the area from the 6th century BC and called it Hurta , as testified by the findings in a necropolis nearby, now preserved in the Vatican Museums . Two major battles between Etruscans and Romans (310 and 283 BC) were fought nearby on
10-642: The Florence–Rome railway and the Ancona–Orte railway . It is situated in Piazza Giovanni XXIII , in the locality of Orte Scalo, approximately two kilometres southeast of the town centre. [REDACTED] Media related to Orte at Wikimedia Commons Tiber Valley The Tiber Valley ( Italian : Valle del Tevere ) is the largest geographical part of the Tiber basin [ Wikidata ] of
15-674: The Tiber river included in the Emilia-Romagna , Tuscany , Umbria , and the Lazio regions; it is characterized by river terraces and floodplain areas that extend from the Apennine belt up to the delta of the Tiber river in the Lazio coast [ it ] of the Tyrrhenian Sea . The Tiber basin is made up of four main morpho-structural environments: This Italian location article
20-628: The shores of the Vadimone lake . The Romans were victorious both times. The Romans domination made it the municipality of Horta (also Hortanum ). Under the rule of Augustus it received numerous public works . Because of its strategic position, Orte was occupied in succession by the Ostrogoths, the Byzantines and the Lombards . During the late 9th to early 10th century, along with much of central Italy, Orte
25-569: Was also held or threatened by the Saracens . In the Middle Ages the city was never seat of a fief, becoming a free comune under a podestà (elected magistrature). Later it became part of the Papal States . George Dennis visited Orte in the 1840s. He describes it as picturesque, but having scarcely any visible Roman or Etruscan remnants. Orte railway station , opened in 1865, forms part of
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