Nocera Umbra is a town and comune in the province of Perugia, Italy, 15 kilometers north of Foligno, at an altitude of 520 m above sea-level.

It soon acquired strategic importance because it lay on a branch of the via Flaminia, the road which linked Rome to the Adriatic, stretching from Forum Flamini (S. Giovanni Profiamma, near Foligno) to Fanum, on the Picenum.

According to Pliny the Elder, Nuceria was inhabited by two tribes, one the Nucerini Favonienses (faithful of Favonia, also named Fauna, a Goddess) and the other Camellani (originating from Camerinum, or possibly makers of camellae, small wooden containers).

Near Nuceria, on the shores of what is now the dried up Lacus Plestinus, the commander of the Roman cavalry, Gaius Centenius, fought a battle with 4,000 knights against Carthaginian troops headed by Maharbal.

The Roman town was destroyed at the beginning of the 5th century, possibly by the Visigoths of Alaric, on their way to Rome: the survivors rebuilt their homes on top of the hill, where today's Nocera still stands.

The walled town – it was named arx fortissima in contemporary documents - guarded the northern border of the Duchy of Spoleto against the Byzantine garrison at Gualdo Tadino.

The importance of Nocera during the Lombard period is underlined by the Necropolis excavated in 1897, whose artefacts – weapons, jewels, household utensils, ceramics - form the core of the Museo dell'alto Medioevo in Rome.

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