Spoleto’s Church of San Ponziano: Underground Splendor
On Spoleto’s Cinciano Hill, the Church of San Ponziano, built between the 11th and 13th centuries on an early Christian cemetery site, is dedicated to San Ponziano of Roman Spoletium said to have been martyred during the reign of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180). Patron saint of Spoleto, his skull is kept in the church in…