Porta Spoletina
It was one of the main gates to the city, built when the city walls were extended in the Middle Ages. A stronghold, it is also called the Gate of the Three Monuments in memory of the cenotaphs, that a widespread popular tradition attributed to the Tacitos: the historian Cornelius and the emperors Marco Claudio and Floriano Tacito.
Not far from the gate, the ruins of a large triumphal arch were also found. Apparently dedicated to the glory of the emperor Domiziano, all the remains existing just outside the city walls were permanently lost when the “Bosco” mechanical industry was built on the site at the turn of the 20th century and whose warehouses have recently been reclaimed (after the factory was relocated to the industrial area during the 1980s) and reused as the Terni Videocentre.
Just a short distance from the arch of Porta Spoletina, within the city walls, there is an ancient mill, one of the many oil mills fed by one of the canals running in a rather dense and extended network around the city.
Just beyond the gate, along the Flaminia stood the church dedicated to the Madonna della Misericordia: Pope Clemente Vll had stopped there to say prayers on his way to Ferrara, leaving 100 scudi for charity. On the opposite hill stood the church of Santa Giusta and further up was the Hermitage known as the "Vecchia" occupied by Capuchin friars. Towering over all the others was the parish church of San Bartolomeo, followed, along the edge of the mountain in the direction of the Somma, by the church of the Concezione and that of San Zenone, a short distance from the fortress of the same name.
Being the first fortress for invading foreign armies marching along the Flaminia towards Rome, Porta Spoletina was continuously under attack. One of the most disastrous for the gate’s structure was the that of Braccio da Montone's army, which in the early 1400s, burnt the gate down and in defiance of the people of Terni, took away the large iron chain as a war trophy.
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