Bar Bramont, Norcia

Bar Bramont in Norcia: location

The café is on Via della Stazione, in the main town: a town enclosed by 13th-century walls and surrounded by mountains over 2,000 m high.

Things to see near Bar Bramont

Norcia has very ancient origins: it was founded by the Sabines, who lived on a site higher than the present one, in the locality of Capo la Terra, and it takes its name from Northia, the Etruscan goddess of fate and fortune. Conquered by the Romans around 300 BC, it became a municipium in 268 BC; from the 4th century it was a bishop's seat, and around 480 the twins Benedict and Scholastica were born there.

The town is also linked to norcineria, the craft of pork butchery. In the early Middle Ages, before the mountain forests were cleared, the inhabitants began feeding their pigs on acorns and specialized in raising pigs and processing pork, so much so that the trade took its name from the town. This activity, together with frequent contact with the Benedictine community of nearby Preci, lies at the root of the Preci surgical tradition.