Church and Monastery of San Ponziano. Fine religious area dedicated to the patron saint of Spoleto (celebrated 14 January). It stands outside the city walls on the other side of the Flaminia. You can get there by going along via Ponzianina, continuing up to the cemetery and then taking via della Basilica di San Salvatore. The entrance to the Basilica is via an archway decorated with a niche in which a fresco depicts the saint armed on horseback.
The Church has a nave and two aisles with three apses. It was built in the twelfth century in Romanesque style but underwent profound modification especially in the eighteenth century due to Valadier. The crypt has managed to preserve its original layout with a small nave, four side aisles and just as many apsidioles.
It has cross vaults, columns and capitals previously used elsewhere and frescoes from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The façade is subdivided by strong moulding emphasised by small hanging arches all along the large tympanum and in the apses divided by pilaster strips. The portal is surmounted by an arch and squared by a cornice. It has a damaged sculpture to each side whereas the rose window which no longer can be seen is surrounded by basreliefs and flanked by small two light mullioned windows.
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