Vallo di Nera

In 1217 Spoleto gave the people of Vallo di Nera the right to build a castle on a hill at the opening of the Valnerina, and the village still keeps that shape. Stone houses sit inside walls and towers, linked by narrow lanes spanned by arches. In the church of Santa Maria, Giottesque frescoes include Cola di Pietro's Procession of the Whites, painted in 1401.

Highlights

• Santa Maria, its apse frescoed in 1383 by Cola di Pietro da Camerino
• San Giovanni Battista, with Jacopo Siculo's Death of the Virgin from 1536
• The Casa dei Racconti, a centre for oral storytelling, at the Portella gate
• Two dovecote towers in the 16th-century Borgo dei Casali
• The cycle path on the old Spoleto–Norcia railway line (IT)

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