The following are the large monumental religious edifices:
THE ROMANESQUE CHURCHES
Within the walls of the city and evenly scattered throughout the territory of the township a total of nearly thirty Romanesque churches can be counted. Not all of them are in a good state of preservation: some are reduced to scant ruins, and others to vestiges reused in later buildings. Together, however, they bear striking witness to art and faith, and constitute an extraordinary museum of our land. Every one of the buildings among them that retains elements reused from previous structures is a precious archaeological and epigraphical witness; and some are essential in reconstructing the ancient road network, both Roman and medieval.
Translated by Bill Thayer ©2010
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