Ponte di Cerreto
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Ponte di Cerreto, 42°47N 12°54E, is a village in Umbria, a frazione of the comune of Cerreto di Spoleto in the Province of Perugia.
The word ponte simply means "bridge": the village, of about 200 inhabitants, lying about 1.5 km south of Cerreto, is the first place on the River Nera to be crossed by a bridge. Though now insignificant, Ponte was once an important defensive outpost belonging to the counts of Celano who built a fortress here, which, however, has not survived. Today, the town is best known for the 12th-century Romanesque abbey church of S. Maria: the façade includes a very good rose window, and the interior is notable for preserving the architect's sketch of that window, engraved on one of the walls of the nave; and, among other frescoes, for an almost equally rare depiction of the Trinity as a three-headed man.
