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Extract from the Terni Travel Guides:
TERNI
was the unlikely birthplace of one of the world's most famous saints,
St Valentine
, bishop of the town until his martyrdom in 273 and now entombed in his personal basilica at San Valentino, a village two kilometres to the southwest. A less romantic city however, would be hard to imagine. Terni's important arms and steel industries made it a natural target for Allied bombing in 1944, and eighty percent of the town was reduced to rubble, including, sadly, the best part of its Roman and medieval heritage. Rebuilding replaced what was lost with a grey grid-iron city straight out of postwar eastern Europe; it also put the...
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