Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Spoleto, Italy

The Ponte delle Torri is an arched bridge derived from a Roman aqueduct located in Spoleto.

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The Fountain of the Mascherone, also known as the fountain of San Simone, is a fountain in Spoleto, Italy, in Piazza Bernardino Campello. It is leaning against the wall near the thirteenth-century former church of Saints Simon and Jude.

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The National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto, inaugurated on August 3, 2007, is located inside the Rocca Albornoziana.

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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.

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Casa Menotti is a sixteenth-century palace in Spoleto, Italy, located in Piazza del Duomo.

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The Diocesan Museum of Spoleto is located inside the Archbishop's Palace, in the wing called "Cardinal's Apartment".

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The Roman House of Spoleto, dated to the beginning of the first century AD, is a stately home discovered by the Spoleto archaeologist Giuseppe Sordini in the years 1885-1886 and excavated several times until 1914. It is located partly under the Town Hall square and partly under the Town Hall of which it occupies the foundations.

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The Town Hall of Spoleto is located halfway between the forum, now Piazza del Mercato, and Piazza del Duomo, in an area where noble houses, private or representative residences have stood since ancient times. Its foundations rest in part on the area of the Roman House discovered by Giuseppe Sordini in 1885. After a long renovation completed in 2007, the building houses the institutional and political bodies of the city.

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The Fountain of Piazza del Mercato, also known as Fonte di Piazza, is located in Spoleto, in the square of the same name once called Piazza del Foro, a center of trade and commerce in Roman times, and today the heart of the historic center.

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The Arch of Drusus and Germanicus is a Roman arch of the early first century located in Spoleto, close to the Roman temple and the church of Sant'Ansano. It was the monumental access gate to the city's forum from the Via Flaminia, bypassing the maximum hinge. It belonged to the vaita Frasanti.

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Sant'Ansano is a neoclassical-style, Roman Catholic church located in the town of Spoleto, in the province of Perugia, region of Umbria, Italy.

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There are about fifty fountains in Spoleto: some are located outside the city walls, others, in greater number, are concentrated in the historic center, in the streets, in the squares, inside some historic buildings.

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The Roman Theatre is a theatre building in Spoleto (Spoletium), dating back to the first century BC. It has a diameter of 114.40 meters, while the cavea measures about 70. It is located within the monumental complex of Sant'Agata.

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The Museum of Textiles and Costume in Spoleto is a museum site included in the Umbrian-Marche interregional network called Sistema museo. It was born following the donation of Lucia Portoghesi, in favor of the municipality of Spoleto, of her personal collection consisting of textile finds ranging from the fourteenth to the twentieth century.

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The Palazzo Collicola is a museum named in memory of Giovanni Carandente located inside Palazzo Collicola, an eighteenth-century building that occupies the entire western side of the square of the same name in the historic center of Spoleto. Inaugurated in 2000, it was then refitted in 2019. Together with the Burri Collection in Città di Castello, it is the most important museum of contemporary art in Umbria. Before 2009 it was called the Civic Gallery of Modern Art. After Gianluca Marziani (2010-2018), the direction passed into the hands of the critic and art historian Marco Tonelli (2019-2023), who was Carandente's collaborator. In May 2023, after a special selection, the position was given to the new director Saverio Verini, Umbrian curator and art historian.

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The monumental complex of Sant'Agata is located within the archaeological area of Spoleto in the area between Via di Sant'Agata and Via delle Terme; it consists of the former monastery of Sant'Agata, the adjacent former church of the same name and the Roman Theater. It belonged to the vaita San Benedetto. They are exhibition venues, venues for temporary exhibitions, events and shows.

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The Casina degli ippocastani, or Casina dell'ippocastano, is a small Alpine-style building erected around 1880; it is located in the public gardens of the historic center of Spoleto, at the crossroads between Via Martiri della Resistenza and Viale Matteotti, in front of the Spoletosphere.

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Spoletosfera is a technical structure called a "geodesic dome", donated to the city of Spoleto in 1967 by the author/inventor the architect Richard Buckminster Fuller on the occasion of the X Festival of Two Worlds. At the same time, Giovanni Carandente set up a solo exhibition by Fuller entitled: "Fuller's structures: 40 years of architectural research, 1927-1967".

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Sculptures in the city was an open-air exhibition/set-up that saw the city of Spoleto transformed into a "Museum City" in the summer of 1962, as part of the fifth edition of the Festival of Two Worlds. It is one of the most salient episodes of international sculpture of the twentieth century.

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San Pietro extra moenia is an ancient Roman Catholic church in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. Remarkable examples of Romanesque sculpture adorn the facade. The term extra moenia refers to its location outside the city walls.

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