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Norcia, traditionally known in English by its Latin name of Nursia, is a town in southeastern Umbria.

The area is known in Italy for the wild boar, and for sausages and ham made from wild boar and pork. Such products have been named after Norcia; in Italian, they are also called "norcineria".

Norcia was the birth-place of a great religious personage: St.Benedict who was the first monk of Christian faith and the founder of the Benedictine order.