Tödi

Todi
Comune
Comune di Todi
Panorama of the town.
Coat of arms
Todi Location of Todi in Italy
Coordinates: 42°47′N 12°25′E / 42.783°N 12.417°E / 42.783; 12.417Coordinates: 42°47′N 12°25′E / 42.783°N 12.417°E / 42.783; 12.417
Country	Italy
Region	Umbria
Province / Metropolitan city	Perugia (PG)
Frazioni	Asproli, Cacciano, Camerata, Canonica, Casemascie, Cecanibbi, Chioano, Collevalenza, Cordigliano, Duesanti, Ficareto, Fiore, Frontignano, Ilci, Izzalini, Loreto, Lorgnano, Montemolino, Montenero, Monticello, Pantalla, Pesciano, Petroro, Pian di Porto, Pian di San Martino, Pontecuti, Ponterio, Ponterio Stazione, Porchiano, Quadro, Ripaioli, Romazzano, Rosceto, San Damiano, Torrececcona, Torregentile, Vasciano
Government
• Mayor	Carlo Rossini (PD)
Area
• Total	223 km2 (86 sq mi)
Elevation	410 m (1,350 ft)
Population (2007)
• Total	17,016
• Density	76/km2 (200/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Tuderti or Todini
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	06059
Dialing code	075
Patron saint	St. Fortunatus
Saint day	October 14
Website	Official website

Todi is a town and comune (municipality) of the province of Perugia (region of Umbria) in central Italy. It is perched on a tall two-crested hill overlooking the east bank of the river Tiber, commanding distant views in every direction.

In the 1990s, Richard S. Levine, a professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky, chose Todi as the model sustainable city, because of its scale and its ability to reinvent itself over time. After that, the Italian press reported on Todi as the world's most livable city.

According to the legend, said to have been recorded around 1330 BC by a mythological Quirinus Colonus, Todi was built by Hercules, who here killed Cacus, and gave the city the name of Eclis.

Historical Todi was founded by the ancient Italic people of the Umbri, in the 8th-7th century BC, with the name of Tutere. The name means "border", the city being located on the frontier with the Etruscan dominions. It probably was still under the latters' influence when it was conquered by the Romans in 217 BC. According to Silius Italicus, it had a double line of walls that stopped Hannibal himself after his victory at the Trasimeno. In most Latin texts, the name of the town took the form Tuder. A notable find dating back to this age is an ancient bronze statue of Mars [1], which was excavated in 1835 in the nearby Montesanto; it is now at the Vatican Museum, but a copy is kept in the crypt of the Cathedral.

Christianity spread to Todi very early, through the efforts of St. Terentianus. Bishop St. Fortunatus became the patron saint of the city for his heroic defense of it during the Gothic siege. In Lombard times, Todi was part of the Duchy of Spoleto.