Last minute Itinerari Nocera Umbra

The town Nocera Umbra

The city of Nocera Umbra possesses and maintains a strong aspect of defensive suburb, protected by its enviable position and its boundaries. The Porta di Martino was the privileged access to the city up to the XIII century, as it shows the still present strong defensive tower, the Palombara, from the typical round and Byzantine structure. Subsequently the main access was constituted by the Porta di St. Francis. On the top of the city, on the summit of the hill, is placed the Duomo of Santa Maria Assunta, on which Romanesque plants have been infected by following styles because of numerous remaking.

An important piece of the artistic production of Nocera Umbra is the St. Francis Church, today turned to Civic Museum and Picture-Gallery. It's also possible to visit a wide range of paintings and frescos made by local painters and of the Umbrian school of the century XV and XVI. Among the most greater present works there are the frescos of Matteo da Gualdo, a wooden polychromatic statue representing the Madonna with Child of halves the XIV century. To embellish the collection there is then a splendid Polittico of Niccolò Alunno.