Places to see in ( Spoleto - Italy ) Giro dei Condotti
Places to see in ( Spoleto - Italy ) Giro dei Condotti
The Giro dei Condotti , also known as the white road , is a mountain footpath that from the Ponte delle Torri , near the historic center of the town of Spoleto , runs along the steep slopes of Monteluco at 440 m and with a flat course reaching the former monastery of Santa Maria inter Angelos (locally called Le Palazze ), then descend into the lower part of the city.
The construction of the itinerary was made possible in 1891 by the works of the aqueduct of Patrico which together with the aqueduct of Cortaccione brought water to the Ponte delle Torri. The designation tour of the conduits derives from the fact that its walking surface covers the ancient pipelines.
It is a suggestive naturalistic and historical itinerary that offers exceptional panoramic views towards Spoleto and the Spoleto valley, up to Trevi , Spello , Assisi , Perugia , the Subasio , Montefalco . It is built on a very steep ground and meets deep gullies: the valley of the Tessino stream , the Valcieca ditch , the Sanguineto ditch and it crosses the homonymous bridge. A section of the route goes into the holm oak of Monteluco, a site of community interest.
The flat route is about 1800 m long. Under the path runs the tunnel of the aqueduct that looks like masonry supporting the same path. On the wall of the conduit there are several rectangular openings that are probably useful for the inspection and control of the tunnel that appears to be made in the open air and covered with slabs of local stone. The conduit crosses the Valcieca gorge above a single low-arched bridge called Ponte Sanguineto . It continues north-west and flows below a path on the Ciciano hill to meet the ancient monastery of Santa Maria inter Angelos.
The vegetation is varied and abundant: you walk among heathers , junipers , elci , boxwood , thyme , ferns , brambles , lentisks , strawberry trees , cyclamens and wild roses. In addition to the natural beauties, the trail allows you to visit ancient monasteries and hermitages , scattered along the route or in the immediate vicinity, almost all in ruins, linked to the hermitic movement on Monteluco. Numerous sports equipment set up in the wider stretches, make it a pleasant health route.
The path, starting from the Ponte delle Torri, passes next to the Fortilizio dei Mulini , overlooking the hermitage of San Leonardo , reaches the belvedere; here you can take the left branch and go down to the former church of Santa Elisabetta , continue on a steep path through the woods and olive groves and get to the city quickly, near the Ponzianina district . Or continuing on level ground, after the Sanguineto bridge , you get to the thirteenth-century monastery of Santa Maria inter Angelos, recently restored and used as a modern hotel; from here you can go down a dirt road up to 350 m in the lower part of the city, near the San Ponziano complex.
Directions of the paths
Another possibility, always after the Sanguineto bridge, is to climb to Monteluco and reach the Valnerina , passing first to visit the ancient hermitage of Sant'Antimo, Borgo Campo Cappello, the wooded Valcieca, the pass of Castelmonte, the hamlet of Vallocchia , etc.
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Duomo di Spoleto
Piazza del Duomo
Giro dei Condotti
The Tower's Bridge
Museo Archeologico Nazionale
La Rocca
Basilica di San Salvatore
Teatro Romano
Chiesa di San Ponziano
Casa Romana di Vespaia Polla
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Today Alexandra is headed to Spoleto, Italy so pack your bags and get ready for another travel adventure!
This video shares some of Spoleto's highlights as well as some off-the-beaten-track discoveries that I made. I hope you enjoy!
(The two shops in the film are noted here. The first is Desir at Via Aurelio Saffi 20, 06049 Spoleto. The second shop is Ceramiche la Torre. The second shop is moving to a new location, but visit them on their website at ceramichelatorre.com for more info.)
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Places to see in ( Spoleto - Italy ) The Tower's Bridge
Places to see in ( Spoleto - Italy ) The Tower's Bridge
The Ponte delle Torri of Spoleto is 236 m long and 90 m high. It is a huge ten-arcade work that connects Colle Sant' Elia with Monteluco. It is constituted of a road and a water canal supported by ogival arcades and stone pillars. It can be reached after a long fine-view walk around the Rocca.
The Fortilizio dei Mulini and the Basilic of St. Peter can be visited while crossing the bridge. The historians have not come to a satisfactory agreement about its exact date of construction, yet. Some of them say it was built in the XIII century, probably over the remains of an ancient Roman aqueduct.
The bridge preserved the function of the previous structure to carry the water of the Cortaccione springs to Spoleto. Nevertheless, many think its origins more probably date to the XIV century. At that time, the cardinal Albornoz started its construction works entrusting Matteo Gattaponi with this task. Yet, its quite late-medieval characteristics, since its origin date to before the XIII century (as testified by its central Romanesque pillars), and the absence of any cardinal's symbols on the bridge, mean that this structure was built before Albornoz.
It is certainly acquainted that the name pons inter torres was given to it around the XVIII century because of the towers standing at its sides, one on the Fortilizio dei Mulini and the other near the Rocca Albornoziana. Yet, the question of the name is being much debated on, since some scholars think that its name derived from the big stone pillars the bridge lies on.
In effect, its two central pillars are hollow on the inside and they have entrance doors. This means that they definitely were well-defended towers. As a matter of fact, the Ponte had a remarkable strategic position, since it overlooked a vast area and was connected to the Rocca. What is certain is that the Ponte delle Torri gives the chance to enjoy a very appreciated panoramic view over one of the greenest and purest areas in the territory of the Preappenines, near Spoleto. Without doubt, this view impressed Wolfgang Goethe, too. The XVIII-century German writer and dramatist dedicated one page of his Viaggio in Italia to this bridge. An ornamental plaque near the bridge commemorates his promenade throughout the city.
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Places to see in ( Spoleto - Italy )
Places to see in ( Spoleto - Italy )
Spoleto is a city in Umbria, Italy. It’s surrounded by hills, olive groves and vineyards. Dating from the 12th century, Spoleto Cathedral has a porticoed facade embellished by a mosaic. Inside is a cycle of frescoes by the medieval artist Filippo Lippi. The National Archaeological Museum complex displays items from the Bronze Age and Roman times. It also includes the restored Roman Theater.
Presided over by a formidable medieval fortress and backed by the broad-shouldered Apennines, their summits iced with snow in winter, Spoleto is visually stunning. The hill town is also something of a historical picnic: the Romans left their mark in the form of grand arches and an amphitheatre; and the Lombards made it the capital of their duchy in 570, building it high and mighty and leaving it with a parting gift of a Romanesque cathedral in the early 13th century. Today, the town has winged its way into the limelight with its mammoth Spoleto Festival (Festival dei Due Mondi) a 17-day summer feast of opera, dance, music and art.
Spoleto (Latin Spoletium) is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines. It is 20 km (12 mi) S. of Trevi, 29 km (18 mi) N. of Terni, 63 km (39 mi) SE of Perugia; 212 km (132 mi) SE of Florence; and 126 km (78 mi) N of Rome. Spoleto was situated on the eastern branch of the Via Flaminia, which forked into two roads at Narni and rejoined at Forum Flaminii, near Foligno. An ancient road also ran hence to Nursia. The Ponte Sanguinario of the 1st century BC still exists. The Forum lies under today's marketplace. Located at the head of a large, broad valley, surrounded by mountains, Spoleto has long occupied a strategic geographical position. It appears to have been an important town to the original Umbri tribes, who built walls around their settlement in the 5th century BC, some of which are visible today.
Under the empire it seems to have flourished once again, but is not often mentioned in history. Martial speaks of its wine. Aemilianus, who had been proclaimed emperor by his soldiers in Moesia, was slain by them here on his way from Rome (AD 253), after a reign of three or four months. Rescripts of Constantine (326) and Julian (362) are dated from Spoleto. The foundation of the episcopal see dates from the 4th century: early martyrs of Spoleto are legends, but a letter to the bishop Caecilianus, from Pope Liberius in 354 constitutes its first historical mention. Owing to its elevated position Spoleto was an important stronghold during the Vandal and Gothic wars; its walls were dismantled by Totila.
The Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) was founded in 1958. Because Spoleto was a small town, where real estate and other goods and services were at the time relatively inexpensive, and also because there are two indoor theatres, a Roman theatre and many other spaces, it was chosen by Gian Carlo Menotti as the venue for an arts festival. It is also fairly close to Rome, with good rail connections. It is an important cultural event, held annually in late June-early July.
The Roman theater, largely rebuilt. The stage is occupied by the former church of St. Agatha, currently housing the National Archaeological Museum. Ponte Sanguinario (bloody bridge), a Roman bridge 1st century BCE. restored Roman house with mosaic floors, indicating it was built in the 1st century, and overlooked the Forum Square.
Ponte delle Torri, a striking 13th-century aqueduct, The majestic Rocca Albornoziana fortress, built in 1359–1370 by the architect Matteo Gattapone of Gubbio for Cardinal Albornoz. The Palazzo Racani-Arroni (16th century) has a worn graffito decoration attributed to Giulio Romano. Palazzo della Signoria (14th century), housing the city's museum. The majestic Palazzo Vigili (15th-16th centuries) includes the Torre dell'Olio (13th century), the sole mediaeval city tower remaining in Spoleto. Temple of Clitumnus lies between Spoleto and Trevi
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Places to see in ( Spoleto - Italy ) Piazza del Duomo
Places to see in ( Spoleto - Italy ) Piazza del Duomo
Due to its location at the edge of the city that surprisingly inserts it in the landscape, the particular configuration due to the characteristics of the land and the beauty of some of its monuments, the Piazza del Duomo in Spoleto is among the most exceptional in Italy.
Triangular in shape culminating with a long stairway, it is dominated to the east by the green hill that holds the Rocca.
On the adjacent side there is the thirteenth-century facade of the Cathedral, of pinkish stone, embellished with roses and a large Byzantine mosaic, firmly supported by the slender bell tower with a high cusp and preceded by an elegant Renaissance portico.
On the west side there are the church of S. Maria della Manna d'Oro, now the Baptistery, from the 16th century, the small, elegant theater Caio Melisso and the fifteenth-century house of the Opera del Duomo, with courses of white and red segments.
Here begins the stairway, or via dell'Arringo, which rises gently up to the upper road and which constitutes a spatial continuation of the square, complemented by the fifth of beautiful houses, including the Palazzo Arroni, from the 16th century. , which go up to the left.
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Spoleto (Perugia) - La Rocca Albornoziana è una fortezza situata sulla sommità del colle Sant'Elia che sovrasta la città di Spoleto. Si tratta del principale baluardo del sistema di fortificazioni fatto edificare da papa Innocenzo VI, per rafforzare militarmente e rendere più evidente l'autorità della Chiesa nei territori dell'Italia centrale, in vista dell'ormai imminente ritorno della sede pontificia a Roma dopo i settanta anni circa di permanenza ad Avignone.
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Places to see in ( Spoleto - Italy ) Duomo di Spoleto
Places to see in ( Spoleto - Italy ) Duomo di Spoleto
Spoleto Cathedral (Italian: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta; Duomo di Spoleto) is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia created in 1821, previously that of the diocese of Spoleto, and the principal church of the Umbrian city of Spoleto, in Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The church is essentially an example of Romanesque architecture, with a nave and two side-aisles crossed by a transept, although subsequently modified. It was built from the second half of the twelfth century after the city had been devastated by Frederick Barbarossa's troops, over an area where there had previously stood an earlier cathedral, dedicated to Saint Primianus (San Primiano) and destroyed by the emperor. A notable external porch and the belfry were added in the fifteenth and sixteenth century respectively.
The façade is divided into three bands. The lower one has a fine architraved door with sculpted door-posts. Two pulpits are provided on each side of the porch. The upper bands are separated by rose windows and ogival arches. The most striking feature of the upper façade is the Byzantine-hieratic mosaic portraying Christ giving a Benediction, signed by one Solsternus (1207). He signed his work with the inscription Doctor Solsternus, hac summus in arte modernus (doctor Solsternus, supremely modern in his art ), calling himself an outstanding modern artist. Nothing else is known about him. He was certainly ahead of his contemporaries, because it would take half a century before the mosaics in Roman churches would surpass his style. The part of the belfry contemporary with the church reuses Roman and early medieval elements.
The interior was significantly modified in the 17th–18th centuries. It has kept the original Cosmatesque floor of the central nave and the frescoed apse. The paintings of the latter were finished in 1467–1469 by Filippo Lippi and his pupils Fra' Diamante and Piermatteo Lauro de' Manfredi da Amelia: they depict scenes from the Life of the Virgin. Lippi is buried in the south arm of the transept.
Also noteworthy are the altar cross by Alberto Sozio, dated 1187, a Byzantine icon donated to the city by Barbarossa as a sign of peace and the frescoes by Pinturicchio in the Chapel of the Bishop of Eroli. Other frescoes from the 16th century are in the next chapel. The church also contains a polychrome wood statue of the Madonna (14th century) and a choir (16th century) with painted altar and tabernacle, in the Chapel of the Relics, under which lies the crypt of the former cathedral of San Primiano.
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Spoleto Cathedral is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia created in 1821, previously that of the diocese of Spoleto, and the principal church of the Umbrian city of Spoleto, in Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The church is essentially an example of Romanesque architecture, with a nave and two side-aisles crossed by a transept, although subsequently modified. It was built from the second half of the twelfth century after the city had been devastated by Frederick Barbarossa's troops, over an area where there had previously stood an earlier cathedral, dedicated to Saint Primianus (San Primiano) and destroyed by the emperor. A notable external porch and the belfry were added in the fifteenth and sixteenth century respectively. The façade is divided into three bands. The lower one has a fine architraved door with sculpted door-posts. Two pulpits are provided on each side of the porch. The upper bands are separated by rose windows and ogival arches. The most striking feature of the upper façade is the Byzantine-hieratic mosaic portraying Christ giving a Benediction, signed by one Solsternus (1207). He signed his work with the inscription Doctor Solsternus, hac summus in arte modernus (doctor Solsternus, supremely modern in his art ), calling himself an outstanding modern artist. Nothing else is known about him. He was certainly ahead of his contemporaries, because it would take half a century before the mosaics in Roman churches would surpass his style. The part of the belfry contemporary with the church reuses Roman and early medieval elements.
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