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Bolsena


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View of the city with the lake.

*Coat of arms*

Bolsena is located in Italy 
Bolsena
Location of Bolsena in Italy

Coordinates: 42°38′41″N 11°59′09″E / 42.64472°N 11.98583°E / 42.64472;
11.98583
Coordinates
: 42°38′41″N 11°59′09″E / 42.64472°N
11.98583°E / 42.64472; 11.98583


Country 	Italy 
Region  	Lazio 
Province  	Viterbo 
(VT)
*Government*
- Mayor 	Paolo Equitani (since June 2004)
*Area *
- Total 	63.94 km^2  (24.7 sq mi)
*Elevation * 	350 m (1,148 ft)
*Population* (2001)
- Total 	4,111
- Density  	64.3/km^2  (166.5/sq mi)
- *Demonym * 	Bolsenesi
Time zone  	CET  (UTC+1
)
- Summer (DST ) 	CEST
(UTC+2 )
Postal code 	01023
Dialing code  	0761
Patron saint 	St. Christine Martyr 
Saint day 	July 24 
Website 	www.comunebolsena.it 

*Bolsena* is a town and comune of Italy , in the province of Viterbo in
northern Lazio on the eastern shore of Lake Bolsena . It is 10 km (6 mi)
NNW of Montefiascone and 36 km (22 mi) NW of Viterbo . The ancient Via
Cassia , today's highway SR143, follows the lake shore for some distance,
passing through Bolsena.



The Castle of Bolsena.


Contents

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* 1 History 
* 2 Gallery 
* 3 Sources 
* 4 See also 
* 5 External links 


[edit ] History

While it is fairly certain that the city is the successor to the ancient
Roman town of /*Volsinii */ (sometimes termed /Volsinii Novi/ – New
Volsinii – to distinguish it from the Etruscan city), scholarly opinion
is sharply divided as to whether /Volsinii/ was the same as the ancient
Etruscan city of Velzna or Velsuna (sometimes termed /Volsinii Veteres/
– Old Volsinii), the other candidate being Orvieto , 20 km (12 mi) NE.
George Dennis pointed out that the town of Bolsena has no Etruscan
characteristics; for example, Etruscan cities were built on defensible
crags, which the hill on which the castle is situated is not. The Roman
historian Pliny the Elder said (Natural History, II,18) that a bolt from
Mars fell on Bolsena, "the richest town in Tuscany" and that the city was
entirely burned up by this bolt. The population moved to another site,
which Dennis thought was Bolsena. The new city was named after the old,
hence Roman Bolsena has an Etruscan name. Dennis suggests a number of
crags in the area including Orvieto but does not favor Orvieto on the
grounds that it is too far away.^[1]

Bolsena is best known for a miracle said to have occurred there in 1263,
when a Bohemian priest, in doubt about the doctrine of Transubstantiation
, reported bleeding from the host he had consecrated at Mass. The Duomo di
Orvieto was eventually built to commemorate the miracle and house the
Corporal of Bolsena .


[edit ] Gallery

Images of Bolsena

City gate below castle  


Lake view  


Inland view  


[edit ] Sources

1. *^ * Dennis, George (1878). /The cities and
cemeteries of Etruria/. *2* (revised ed.). London: J. Murray. p. 23. 


[edit ] See also

* Volsinii