Il suggestivo Ponte delle Torri di Spoleto è una mastodontica opera a dieci arcate che fa da raccordo tra il Colle Sant’Elia e Monteluco. Si tratta di un ponte che misura una lunghezza di 236 metri e un’altezza di circa 90 metri.

L’attraversamento è costituito da una strada ed un canale dell’acqua, sorrette da arcate ogivali e piloni di pietra. Vi si giunge attraverso una lunga passeggiata panoramica intorno alla Rocca Albornoz di Spoleto, collocata sulla sommità del colle sovrastante.

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Sulla datazione esatta della costruzione del ponte non c’è ancora chiarezza, con gli storici che non si sono accordati in maniera soddisfacente. Alcuni documenti rivelerebbero che è stato costruito nel Duecento, probabilmente sui resti di un antico acquedotto romano. Proprio dalla precedente costruzione avrebbe ereditato la sua funzione, portando a Spoleto l’acqua delle sorgenti di Cortaccione.

D’altra parte sono in molti a considerare la sua datazione più probabile nel XIV secolo. È a quell’epoca che il cardinale Albornoz intraprende le sue opere di costruzione, affidandone la direzione a Matteo Gattaponi. Tuttavia, però, le sue caratteristiche piuttosto tardo-medievali, la sua origine sicuramente anteriore al XIII secolo (testimoniata dai piloni centrali di carattere romanico), e l’assenza dei simboli riconducibili al cardinale lungo la costruzione, sembrano propendere per la tesi dell’antecedenza del ponte rispetto all’epoca di Albornoz.

La sua denominazione “Ponte delle Torri” deriva dal latino “pons inter torres”. Tale appellativo gli venne attribuito intorno al XVIII a causa delle due torri che ne sorvegliavano i lati, l’una sul Fortilizio dei Mulini, l’altra in prossimità della Rocca Albornoziana.

Anche qui comunque il dibattito tra gli storici è aperto, poiché alcuni studiosi ritengono che il nome faccia riferimento agli enormi piloni di pietra che sorreggono l’attraversamento. I due piloni centrali, infatti, sono cavi all’interno e presentano delle porte d’accesso che fanno pensare in tutto e per tutto a delle torri ben difese. D’altronde il ponte aveva una posizione strategica non indifferente, dominando una vasta area ed essendo collegato alla Rocca.

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Di sicuro c’è che il Ponte delle Torri offre una veduta panoramica molto apprezzata, che si apre su una delle zone più verdi e inalterate della zona pre-appenninica a ridosso di Spoleto.

Fu una veduta che impressionò sicuramente anche Wolfgang Goethe, scrittore e drammaturgo tedesco del Settecento, che dedicò una pagina del suo “Viaggio in Italia”. La sua passeggiata per la città è commemorata da una targa posta proprio in prossimità del ponte.

Attraversando il ponte si possono visitare il Fortilizio dei Mulini e la Basilica di San Pietro, oltre ad ammirare la magnifica Rocca Albornoz.

The Ponte delle Torri of Spoleto is 236 m long and 90 m high. It is a huge ten-arcade work that connects Colle Sant’ Elia with Monteluco. It is constituted of a road and a water canal supported by ogival arcades and stone pillars. It can be reached after a long fine-view walk around the Rocca.
The Fortilizio dei Mulini and the Basilic of St. Peter can be visited while crossing the bridge. The historians have not come to a satisfactory agreement about its exact date of construction, yet. Some of them say it was built in the XIII century, probably over the remains of an ancient Roman aqueduct.

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The bridge preserved the function of the previous structure to carry the water of the Cortaccione springs to Spoleto. Nevertheless, many think its origins more probably date to the XIV century. At that time, the cardinal Albornoz started its construction works entrusting Matteo Gattaponi with this task. Yet, its quite late-medieval characteristics, since its origin date to before the XIII century (as testified by its central Romanesque pillars), and the absence of any cardinal’s symbols on the bridge, mean that this structure was built before Albornoz. It is certainly acquainted that the name “pons inter torres” was given to it around the XVIII century because of the towers standing at its sides, one on the Fortilizio dei Mulini and the other near the Rocca Albornoziana. Yet, the question of the name is being much debated on, since some scholars think that its name derived from the big stone pillars the bridge lies on. In effect, its two central pillars are hollow on the inside and they have entrance doors. This means that they definitely were well-defended towers. As a matter of fact, the Ponte had a remarkable strategic position, since it overlooked a vast area and was connected to the Rocca.

What is certain is that the Ponte delle Torri gives the chance to enjoy a very appreciated panoramic view over one of the greenest and purest areas in the territory of the Preappenines, near Spoleto.
Without doubt, this view impressed Wolfgang Goethe, too. The XVIII-century German writer and dramatist dedicated one page of his “Viaggio in Italia” to this bridge.
An ornamental plaque near the bridge commemorates his promenade throughout the city.

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The Ponte delle Torri of Spoleto is 236 m long and 90 m high. It is a huge ten-arcade work that connects Colle Sant’ Elia with Monteluco. It is constituted of a road and a water canal supported by ogival arcades and stone pillars. It can be reached after a long fine-view walk around the Rocca.

The Fortilizio dei Mulini and the Basilic of St. Peter can be visited while crossing the bridge. The historians have not come to a satisfactory agreement about its exact date of construction, yet. Some of them say it was built in the XIII century, probably over the remains of an ancient Roman aqueduct.
The bridge preserved the function of the previous structure to carry the water of the Cortaccione springs to Spoleto. Nevertheless, many think its origins more probably date to the XIV century. At that time, the cardinal Albornoz started its construction works entrusting Matteo Gattaponi with this task.
Yet, its quite late-medieval characteristics, since its origin date to before the XIII century (as testified by its central Romanesque pillars), and the absence of any cardinal’s symbols on the bridge, mean that this structure was built before Albornoz.

It is certainly acquainted that the name “pons inter torres” was given to it around the XVIII century because of the towers standing at its sides, one on the Fortilizio dei Mulini and the other near the Rocca Albornoziana.
Yet, the question of the name is being much debated on, since some scholars think that its name derived from the big stone pillars the bridge lies on. In effect, its two central pillars are hollow on the inside and they have entrance doors.
This means that they definitely were well-defended towers. As a matter of fact, the Ponte had a remarkable strategic position, since it overlooked a vast area and was connected to the Rocca.

What is certain is that the Ponte delle Torri gives the chance to enjoy a very appreciated panoramic view over one of the greenest and purest areas in the territory of the Preappenines, near Spoleto.
Without doubt, this view impressed Wolfgang Goethe, too. The XVIII-century German writer and dramatist dedicated one page of his “Viaggio in Italia” to this bridge. An ornamental plaque near the bridge commemorates his promenade throughout the city.

The Ponte delle Torri of Spoleto is 236 m long and 90 m high. It is a huge ten-arcade work that connects Colle Sant’ Elia with Monteluco. It is constituted of a road and a water canal supported by ogival arcades and stone pillars. It can be reached after a long fine-view walk around the Rocca.

The Fortilizio dei Mulini and the Basilic of St. Peter can be visited while crossing the bridge. The historians have not come to a satisfactory agreement about its exact date of construction, yet. Some of them say it was built in the XIII century, probably over the remains of an ancient Roman aqueduct.
The bridge preserved the function of the previous structure to carry the water of the Cortaccione springs to Spoleto. Nevertheless, many think its origins more probably date to the XIV century. At that time, the cardinal Albornoz started its construction works entrusting Matteo Gattaponi with this task.
Yet, its quite late-medieval characteristics, since its origin date to before the XIII century (as testified by its central Romanesque pillars), and the absence of any cardinal’s symbols on the bridge, mean that this structure was built before Albornoz.

It is certainly acquainted that the name “pons inter torres” was given to it around the XVIII century because of the towers standing at its sides, one on the Fortilizio dei Mulini and the other near the Rocca Albornoziana.
Yet, the question of the name is being much debated on, since some scholars think that its name derived from the big stone pillars the bridge lies on. In effect, its two central pillars are hollow on the inside and they have entrance doors.
This means that they definitely were well-defended towers. As a matter of fact, the Ponte had a remarkable strategic position, since it overlooked a vast area and was connected to the Rocca.

What is certain is that the Ponte delle Torri gives the chance to enjoy a very appreciated panoramic view over one of the greenest and purest areas in the territory of the Preappenines, near Spoleto.
Without doubt, this view impressed Wolfgang Goethe, too. The XVIII-century German writer and dramatist dedicated one page of his “Viaggio in Italia” to this bridge. An ornamental plaque near the bridge commemorates his promenade throughout the city.

The Ponte delle Torri of Spoleto is 236 m long and 90 m high. It is a huge ten-arcade work that connects Colle Sant’ Elia with Monteluco. It is constituted of a road and a water canal supported by ogival arcades and stone pillars. It can be reached after a long fine-view walk around the Rocca.

The Fortilizio dei Mulini and the Basilic of St. Peter can be visited while crossing the bridge. The historians have not come to a satisfactory agreement about its exact date of construction, yet. Some of them say it was built in the XIII century, probably over the remains of an ancient Roman aqueduct.
The bridge preserved the function of the previous structure to carry the water of the Cortaccione springs to Spoleto. Nevertheless, many think its origins more probably date to the XIV century. At that time, the cardinal Albornoz started its construction works entrusting Matteo Gattaponi with this task.
Yet, its quite late-medieval characteristics, since its origin date to before the XIII century (as testified by its central Romanesque pillars), and the absence of any cardinal’s symbols on the bridge, mean that this structure was built before Albornoz.

It is certainly acquainted that the name “pons inter torres” was given to it around the XVIII century because of the towers standing at its sides, one on the Fortilizio dei Mulini and the other near the Rocca Albornoziana.
Yet, the question of the name is being much debated on, since some scholars think that its name derived from the big stone pillars the bridge lies on. In effect, its two central pillars are hollow on the inside and they have entrance doors.
This means that they definitely were well-defended towers. As a matter of fact, the Ponte had a remarkable strategic position, since it overlooked a vast area and was connected to the Rocca.

What is certain is that the Ponte delle Torri gives the chance to enjoy a very appreciated panoramic view over one of the greenest and purest areas in the territory of the Preappenines, near Spoleto.
Without doubt, this view impressed Wolfgang Goethe, too. The XVIII-century German writer and dramatist dedicated one page of his “Viaggio in Italia” to this bridge. An ornamental plaque near the bridge commemorates his promenade throughout the city.