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SPOLETO

Volume 20 · 159 words · 1842 Edition

one of the delegations into which the dominions of the church in Italy are divided. It extends over 1401 square miles, contains six cities, fourteen towns, and 204 villages, with 102,053 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, at the foot of a hill, and on a brook which flows to the Maragia. It is the seat of a bishop, and likewise of the civil tribunals. Besides a cathedral and twenty-two parish churches, it contains twenty-two monasteries, with some hermitages and establishments of brotherhoods of devotion. The streets are narrow and crooked, the houses old and many of them dilapidated; but the city contains 7000 inhabitants. A magnificent aqueduct supplies it with water. There are many interesting remains of antiquity, and among others, a triumphal arch of Hannibal, ruins of a theatre, of a temple of Concord, of Jupiter, and of Mars, and of a palace of Theodoric. Lat. 42. 44. 50. Long. 13. 1. E.