Spoleto is a city in central Umbria, Italy. Spoleto was founded as a Roman colony in 241 BC as Spoletium, and Spoleto became the capital of the independent Duchy of Spoleto in 570 AD. In 774, Spoleto became a part of the Holy Roman Empire, and it was destroyed by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1155. In 1213, Spoleto was definitively conquered by the Papal States, and it remained a Papal city until the 1860 reunification of Italy. In 2010, Spoleto had a population of 38,283 people.
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Location of Spoleto
Spoleto in 1495