| Rocca
Albornoziana
Placed upon S. Elia Hill, its construction dates back
to 1359; a document dated 1362 designates Matteo Gattaponi work director; in 1370,
the great work was not finished yet.
For centuries, till the sixteenth, it
was theatre of the most important facts of the town; it gave hospitality to renowned
guests, among them many Popes, as Nicolò V, Pio II, Sisto IV, and also
Cardinals as Giovanni de' Medici; another important figure was Lucrezia Borgia,
sent here by her father, Pope Alessandro VI, so to drive her away from her future
husband, Alfonso d'Aragona.
After the sixteenth century, its importance lowered
till its transformation in a detention jail; today, recovered and restored, it
justifies itself the ticket for a trip to Spoleto... |
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