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Extract from the Amelia Travel Guides:
AMELIA
, 11km northwest of Narni and plonked on top of a sugar-loaf hilltop, is by far the most tempting local excursion if the ruins don't appeal. Though not big on monuments, it's fairly interesting and unvisited, noted mainly for its extraordinary cyclopean walls, claimed as some of the oldest and mightiest in Italy. Supported by their own weight and comprising vast polygonal blocks up to seven metres across, they reach a height of over twenty metres in places and date back, according to early Roman historians, to the Umbrian settlement of the eleventh century BC. Most of the town's churches were ruined in the nineteenth century, and art's...
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