Museo d'Arte Immanente

The Fortress of Civitella del Tronto stands at 600 meters above sea level, in a very strategic position, at the old northern boundary between the Kingdom of Naples to the South and the Kingdom of the Holy See to the North. It is one of the largest and most important work of military engineering in Europe, characterized by its elliptical shape with an area of 25.000 square meters and a length of more than 500 meters.

The museum is located within the Albornoz Fortress,on top of Spoleto’s historical centre. The museum was opened up to document the history of the Duchy of Spoleto, founded by the Lombards, a Germanic population which broke the political unity of Italian territory in the 6th century AD. The Fortress was built due to the will of the Spanish Cardinal Egidio Albornoz starting in 1360. It was home to papal legates and to Popes. Today, with the gradual restoration of its spaces and mural paintings that still decorate its walls, the complex has finally regained its old primitive charm after having been used for a long time as prison. The museum offers an interesting document of knowledge of the Spoleto territory from the 4th to the 15th century and at the same time illustrates, through panels, the beauty of the frescoed rooms displaying the artworks.