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Gualdo Tadino

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This site is mentioned in the Eugubine Tables. Recent surveys carried out on Colle Mori have brought to light this Umbrian settlement set on artificial terraces. Dwellings here seem to consist of houses with multiple rooms, most likely comprising two stories and wooden ceilings. Such buildings require a complex urbanization process and careful planning. On the upper part of the hill, a votive chapel has been found. The center of town, identified through an inscription that commemorates the Tarsinati, can be dated between the fifth and third century BC. Other necropolises of the same age were discovered in the lower plain. Tadinum Romana used to be located in the plain and crossed by the old Flaminia Road. This area was inhabited since the Neolithic, as evidenced by some stone tools found out near Morano and along the Feo river. Metal objects (flat axes with raised edges, halberds, etc.) now part of the Bellucci collection at the National Archaeological Museum of Perugia attest the human presence in the area even before the Bronze Age. An important piece of furniture made up of violin bow fibulae, spirals, pliers, needles and other objects in bronze and a couple of gold discs with cantilevered geometric decorations (National Archaeological Museum of Perugia) all come from St. Marzio Valley, in the middle of the trans Apennine route. Since the early Iron Age, the territory of Gualdo Tadino was permanently inhabited by the Umbrian Tardinates and is often mentioned in the Eugubine Tables.