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Terni is an ancient town of Italy, capital of Terni
province in southern Umbria, in the plain of the Nera river.
Terni's important arms and steel industries made it a natural target for Allied bombing in 1944, and eighty percent of the town was reduced to rubble, including, sadly, the best part of its Roman and medieval heritage. Rebuilding replaced what was lost with a grey grid-iron city straight out of postwar eastern Europe; it also put the arms industry back on its feet – the gun used to assassinate Kennedy was made here – and though the town no longer lives up to its nineteenth-century nickname of "the Manchester of Italy", hi-tech weaponry and the stench of chemicals aren't the most enticing of prospects.
