TERNI was the unlikely birthplace of one of the world's most famous saints, St Valentine , bishop of the town until his martyrdom in 273 and now entombed in his personal basilica at San Valentino, a village two kilometres to the southwest. A less romantic city however, would be hard to imagine. 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 ... [More]