Explore Spoleto

Spoleto Cathedral, dedicated to the Assumption, was built from the late 12th century after Frederick Barbarossa's troops destroyed the earlier church. Its Romanesque facade has eight rose windows and a mosaic of Christ signed by Solsternus in 1207, behind a porch added in the 15th century. Filippo Lippi began the apse frescoes of the Life of the Virgin and is buried here.

The Ponte delle Torri is an aqueduct bridge about 230 metres long across the Tessino gorge in Spoleto, linking the hill of the Rocca Albornoziana with the slopes of Monteluco. Its nine arches rise about 80 metres; the present structure dates from the late 14th century, probably on Roman remains. A footpath runs along the top.

San Pietro extra moenia is a church at the foot of Monteluco, outside the walls of Spoleto, founded in the 5th century on an older burial ground to keep chains said to have bound Saint Peter. Its façade, reached by a wide 17th-century stairway, is covered with late-12th-century reliefs of the saint's life and of medieval fables.

The Basilica of San Salvatore is an early Christian church on the Ciciano hill, inside Spoleto's monumental cemetery outside the medieval walls. The Lombard dukes of Spoleto rebuilt it in the 8th century; it has a nave and two aisles and an octagonal vault over the presbytery. It is part of the UNESCO site Longobards in Italy.