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Spoleto accommodation in Spoleto:




mappa

Il duomo

panorama

Rocca

Ponte delle torri

chiesa S.Filippo

Piazza

Palazzo Ancaiani

Cippo romano

grotta

Convento

chiesa S.Giuliano

Scalinata


Historical knowledge:

From Umbrian origins, it was then a roman colony which set themselves against the troops of Hannibal, re pulsed them and became one of the most important Longobardic dukedom. The first testimony coming from hill S. Elia belong to the iron age. the first contact with Rome took place at the end of the IVth century b.C. and in the third century b.C. it passes under Roms influence. In 241, the Romans established a colony: "Spoletum". To Rome, Spoleto remains always faithful, especially during the punic wars, not only to republic Hannibal after his victory on the Trasimeno (217 b.C.) but especially in the critical period which followed this long conflict. In 43 b.C. Ottaviano stopped here before the battle of Modena making a sacrifice in one of the temples of the city. The roman senator Giulio Naucellio resided at Spoleto at the beginning of tile Vth century. Embellished by Teodorico (493) and by Belisario (536) it was conquested by Totila (545) and reestablished by Narsete. Italy invaded, the Longobardic chose Spoleto at the head of a flourishing dukedom. The dukedom passed to the Franks after Longobardic fall. When the Carlovingian empire was dismembered, the dukes from Spoleto, Guido IIIrd and his son Lamberto, drove their power to the conquest of the imperial crown. In 1155 it was destroyed by Federico Barbarossa and various dominations on one side it brought death and destruction, on the other side have enriched Spoleto with remarkable monuments. Contended then between the empire and the Church, it was aggregated by Innocenzo IIIrd in 1198 and definitively in 1247. Afflicted by conflicts between Guelfic and Ghibellines, it was reconciled by Albornoz, assured to the Church and made an important centre of the Papal States which send them authoritative governors, among them also Lucrezia Borgia(1499) Periods of splendour and of decay followed. During the french occupation, Spoleto was chief town of the Trasimeno Department. The re-establishment (1814) made it see of the Pontifex Delegation, until the 17th september 1860 when, the troops of general Brignone united Spoleto to the new Italian States. Beautiful and austere city with a very ancient history, today Spoleto is one of the principal touring centres of Umbria, wether of the importance of its monuments as for the important cultural manifestations which take place.


Places to visit:

  • The Albornoziana fortress with the Spiritate tower
  • The Cathedral which rose in 1067 on the rests of a ancient church from the IXth century
  • The San Salvatore church (IVth century)
  • The Sant'Eufemia church build in the XIIth century in an area of an Insula with rests of walls and mosaik work
  • The Druso arch
  • The Sant'Agata monastery and San Pietro church
  • The Town-hall Palace (200's)
  • The Municipality Palace
  • The Callicola, Campello and Ancaiani Palaces (XVlIlth century)
  • The New theater (800's)
  • The Caio Melisso theatre (1880).
  • The Spada Palace seat of the modern art gallery
  • The Recani Arroni Palace
  • The Bridge of towers
  • The Elegant roman house of Vespaia Polla with its floors and mosaik work still intact
  • The Woods with the Franciscan convent (Xllth century) at Monteluco
  • The Sant'Ansano church from the first Middle-ages
  • Numerous roman monuments like: San Domenico,San Gregorio Maggiore, San Paolo Intervineas and Sant'Eufemia
  • The Roman churches of: San Pietro,San Ponziano and San Giuliano



Events


Spoleto accommodation in Spoleto:


Folklore:

  • 14th january: Patron-Saint: San Ponziano
  • February: Children's Carnival
  • April: Week of studies of the high Middle-ages
  • May/june: Organ-Concert in the churches
  • June/July: Festival of the «Two Worlds»
  • 5th august: annual village feast-Assunta
  • September Season of experimental Lyric



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