The Ponte delle Torri, towering over the valley that separates Colle Sant’Elia from Monteluco, is an aqueduct by the surprising size (230 m long and 76 m high), built in local limestone and supported by nine pillars connected to each other ...

It is located at the eastern end of the Ponte delle Torri, standing out against the charming nature of Monteluco’s woods. It was built as a watch-out on the bridge; inside there used to be water reservoirs feeding a public mill that was act...

It is one of the most characteristic fountains in town, and is called “the big mask” by local folks, because of the imposing laurel-crowned human mask from whose mouth the water comes out.
An inscription states the 1736 restoration of t...

Via dell’Arringo is the clearest result of a huge, late-Medieval renovation of the Roman and Early-Medieval urban fabric. The street is closed by actual symbols of power on its short sides, the Town Hall and the Cathedral.
The reasons ...

Left of the fountain in piazza del Mercato, on the way toward the Cathedral, you walk on “via del Palazzo dei Duchi”, named after the erroneous conviction that the remains found under the street level were part of a Roman building, used as ...

The fountain was built by Roman architect Costantino Fiaschetti between 1746 and 1748. Its scenic façade features simple pilaster strips below, and a richly sculpted front above, of which the 1626 Barberini memorial designed by Carlo Madern...

The arch stands a few steps away from piazza del Mercato, the city’s old Roman forum, of which the arch was the triumphal entrance. The front features a still-visible inscription that informs that the arch was erected by will of the Spoleta...

The discovery of the temple’s surviving structures next to the arch of Drusus and Germanic was thanks to Spoletan archaeologist Giuseppe Sordini, who in 1900 started excavating around the temple’s pedestal, the stylobate. The dedication of ...

It is one of four main entrance gates in Spoleto’s Medieval boundary walls. It was built between 1296 and 1297, when the City decided to encompass the new districts inside new, wider ring-walls.
It is made of ashlars and spolia and was...

The 300-m-long portico was built to give shelter to the pilgrims heading out to the church of Madonna di Loreto, that keeps a many-venerated icon. The construction was funded by wealthy Spoletan families, whose coats-of-arms are displayed b...

The Ponte Sanguinario is an important Roman monument in the lower part of the city, close to Porta Leonina a.k.a. Porta San Gregorio. A staircase goes underground and leads to the still-visible, travertine arches of the interred bridge. The...

It was probably built in the 2nd century, outside Spoleto’s oldest boundary walls, close to the Tessino stream.
Nothing but a few traces remain of the original building, that faced devastation a number of times; in the 6th century, Tot...

Part of the 16th-century Palazzo Vigili, it is the highest tower in town and gets its name from the old defensive habit of pouring boiling oil on the attackers from atop the towers. The present tower dates possibly to the 13th century, yet...