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Bevagna (Pg). The tour of traditional lace, weaving and embroidery laboratories organised by the Regione Umbria includes also Il Nodo Antico in Bevagna. 
Bevagna, formerly an Umbrian settlement, then become Roman with the passage of the ancient western branch of the Via Flaminia (220 B.C.), in 89 B.C. it became an important Roman municipium under the name of Mevania, even of greater extension then the following medieval Bevagna...
Coming from Foligno, already outside Porta Foligno (or Flaminia), along the town walls, you will note remains of Roman buildings, in an area whose elliptical forms signals the location of the amphitheatre of which some walls, partly in 'opus reticulatum' (typical Roman brickwork of small square bricks) have been excavated.....
On the right side of Via di Porta Guelfa, inside a house have been discoverd the Roman Thermae. There are four rooms, three of which are only partly conserved, while the fourth shows a white and black mosaic with sea-life scenes (a triton chasing hippocampi, a lobster and squids).....
Piazza Silvestri, the centre of medieval and modern Bevagna, is one the most medieval squares of Umbria, of irregular shape, almost casual, with the most significant buildings facing the square.....
In the neighbourhood of Bevagna has to be mentioned the Santuario della Madonna delle Grazie.
