BLERA (mod. Bieda)  , an ancient Etruscan town on the Via Clodia, about 32 M . N.N.W. of Rome . It was of little importance, and is only mentioned by geographers and, in inscriptions . It is situated on a long, narrow tongue of rock at the junction of two deep glens . Some remains of the town walls still exist, and also two- ancient bridges, both belonging to the Via Clodia, and many tombs hewn in the rock—small chambers imitating the architectural forms of houses, with beams and rafters represented in relief . See G, Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, i . 207 . There was another Blera in Apulia, on the road from Venusia to Tarentum .