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The town Foligno

The place symbol of Foligno is certainly the Cattedrale, erect in honour of San Feliciano, bishop of Foligno born in 169 and died martyr in 253 during the persecutions of Decio. Initially was constituted as small temple built in the place where San Feliciano wanted to be buried. In 1100 the inferior part of the façade was built, while the superior part was built on commission of the family Trinci in the XIV century. During the centuries XVIII and XIX, the inside of the church was almost entirely restructured, thanks to the work of the architect Joseph Piermarini, who behind precise indications of the Vanvitelli, conferred to the three aisles an austere neo-classic aspect. In the inside there are two precious works of the Pupil, Niccolò di Liberatore. In the sacristy there's a fresco which depicts the "Crucifixion", while in a table it's painted the "Madonna and San Giovanni". From 2001 the Cathedral has again returned to its ancient shine, when the jobs of restoration returned to the city the most precious monument damaged by the earthquake of 1997.

In front of the Cathedral rises the City-hall, erect between 1262 and 1265, while its tower was built in the XIV century. The Building was more times modified and restored, also because of the earthquakes that damaged the building. The actual symmetrical and neo-classic aspect is due to an intervention of the XIX century. The City-hall is connected to the Palazzo Giusto Orfini, known for being centre of the first city painting shops.

Between the City-hall and the Cathedral, there's Palazzo Trinci, resulted of the fusion among the various residences of the family which held up the government of the city of Foligno during Renaissance epoch. The Building was realised among the end of the XIV century and the beginning of the XV. The Building entertains inside the Picture-Gallery, are where preserved among the other works of merit, various works of the Pupil and Ottaviano Nelli.

The Santa Maria Infraportas Church is one of the most ancient of Foligno. According to the tradition it was already present at the beginning of the Christianity, when the apostles Pietro and Paolo stopped there. It owes the name to its position between the ancient and the new boundaries. The façade is characterised for the arcade realised in the centuries XI-XII to protect the portal. The inside has three aisles, which are embellished by numerous works of art as the "Christ Benedicente", and the frescos showing San Rocco, performed by Niccolò di Liberatore.

To few more than five kilometres from the historical centre, can be admired the splendid Abbazia of Sassovivo, probably built to the feet of the Serrone Mount in the XI century to host a small community of Benedictine monks. The abbey is a real small jewel, inside which is possible to visit a delicious cloister adorned by the presence of 128 columns surmounted by arcs.

In the Renaissance Oratory of the Nunziatella, built in 1494, in a niche, the Perugino painted in 1507 a fresco showing the "Baptism of Christ", an admirable work of the artistic talent of the "divin painter."