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[[File:Bevagna - Chiesa di San Michele e fontana.jpg|thumb|Piazza Silvestri|435x435px]]
'''Bevagna''' is a town and ''[[comune]]'' in the central part of the [[Italy|Italian]] [[province of Perugia]] ([[Umbria]]), in the flood plain of the [[Topino]] river.
Bevagna is {{convert|25|km|mi|abbr=on}} south-east of [[Perugia]], {{convert|8|km|mi|abbr=on}} west of [[Foligno]], {{convert|7|km|mi|abbr=on}} north-north-west of [[Montefalco]], {{convert|16|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of [[Assisi]] and {{convert|15|km|mi|abbr=on}} north-west of [[Trevi, Umbria|Trevi]].
It has a population of c. 5,000, with the town of Bevagna proper accounting for about half of that. It is one of [[I Borghi più belli d'Italia]] ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://borghipiubelliditalia.it/umbria/|title=Umbria|access-date=1 August 2023|language=it}}</ref>
==History==
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Pastures near the [[Topino|Tinia river]] and the white oxen of the [[Clitunno|Clitumnus River]] (the modern Clitunno) are mentioned by [[Propertius]], whose family was from the area (from [[Assisi]]um, [[Spello|Hispellum]], or Mevania itself): they may refer to Mevania. Mevania is specifically mentioned by the later writers [[Silius Italicus]], [[Lucan (poet)|Lucan]] and [[Statius]].
There are important remains of a temple near the north gate, of a [[Roman theatre (structure)|theatre]] built into modern houses in the (misnamed) via dell'Anfiteatro, lesser remains of a second temple in the church of San Vincenzo near the east gate, mosaics belonging to midsized baths in the via Porta Guelfa, and very scanty remains of an [[amphitheatre]] at some distance from the modern town. The original walls, which have disappeared, were, according to [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] ([
After the [[Lombards|Lombard]] conquest, it became the seat of a [[gastald]] in the [[Duchy of Spoleto]], and after the year 1000 it was a free ''comune''. In 1152 [[Frederick Barbarossa]] set it on fire. In 1249 it was again destroyed by the Count of [[Aquino, Italy|Aquino]]. The [[Trinci]] family ruled it from 1371 to 1439. Later it was part of the [[Papal States]] until the [[unification of Italy]].
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==External links==
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*[http://www.comune.bevagna.pg.it/ Official website]
*[http://web.genie.it/utenti/p/proloco.bevagna/ Pro Loco Bevagna]
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*[http://www.webvisionitaly.com/category.php?id=216&ref_genre=11&ref_item=167 Mercato del Gaite English Video]
*{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Mevania}}
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{{Province of Perugia}}
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[[Category:Roman sites of Umbria]]
[[Category:Roman towns and cities in Italy]]
[[Category:Borghi più belli d'Italia]]
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