Spoleto’s Romanesque Sublimity: the Church of San Pietro
Rising behind the 12th-century Church of San Pietro extra moenia (outside the walls) is Monteluco, the sacred woods of the Romans, protected by the 3rd-2nd-century B.C. law, Lex Luci Spoletina which forbade the cutting of its trees. Still respected, this law is considered Italy’s first forestry law. And what a backdrop for one of the most stunning Romanesque churches in…