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| | Nepi and Sutri |
 | | Sutri is placed, like a hanging garden, upon a steep hill on the Cassian Way; the ancient town occupied two hills connected by a bridge, and its walls, built of great tufa rocks, are yet to be seen. |
 | | The history of Sutri in antiquity resembles that of Nepi, for Sutri also was taken by the Lombards in 569, but was retaken by the exarch Romanus; Luitprand likewise took the town in 726, but in the following year restored it to "St. Peter". |
 | | Two famous synods were held at Sutri, one in 1046, at which Sylvester III was deposed, and resigned the tiara; the other in 1059, was held against Benedict IX. |
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