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Info:
Population: about 1,100 inhabitants
-- Zip/postal code: 06040 -- Phone Area Code: 0743
History
What to see:
Triponzo, at the confluence of the Corno and the Nera Rivers, whose name comes from Tripontium, meaning "three bridges", presumably one over each branch of the rivers, famous for a Roman inscription, carved in the live rock on the outer face of the modern SS 209 road tunnel a few hundred meters West of the town, which records the building of the Roman road from Spoletium to Nursia by order of the Roman Senate.
At Triponzo, the medieval church of Santa Caterina
The Triponzo sulphureous springs which is considered to have therapeutic properties.
Ponte di Cerreto, a frazione of the comune, of about 200 inhabitants, lying about 1.5 km south of Cerreto, is the first place on the river Nera to be crossed by a bridge. It was once an important defensive outpost belonging to the counts of Celano who built a fortress here, which, however, has not survived.
The 12th-century Romanesque abbey of Santa Maria at Ponte di Cerreto, with a fine rose window in the facade, and in the interior the architect's sketch of that window, engraved on one of the walls of the nave; a very rare fresco representing the Trinity as a three-headed man.
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Region Umbria > Province Perugia > Comune Cerreto di Spoleto
spiritual harmony, art & culture amid olive groves and sunflowers fields...