The patron saint of Spoleto is Saint Pontian, celebrated on 14 January: on Ciciano hill, on the town's outskirts, stands the Romanesque-neoclassical church of San Ponziano, founded in the 13th century, part of a monastic complex named after the town's patron and inhabited by the Canonesses Regular of the Lateran of Saint Augustine.
Atop Sant'Elia hill, meanwhile, stands the dominant Rocca Albornoziana, built at the behest of Cardinal Egidio Albornoz: it has two inner courtyards and six towers, including the one known as «della spiritata», and the camera pinta, frescoed with 15th-century paintings. Spoleto is today known above all for the Festival dei Due Mondi, which brought to the town works such as Alexander Calder's Teodelapio, an 18-metre-high monumental sculpture made in 1962 for the «Sculture nella città» exhibition, and the Spoletosfera, a geodesic dome donated to the town in 1967 by architect Richard Buckminster Fuller for the tenth festival. The Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, reopened to the public in 2007 after three years of restoration for the festival's fiftieth edition, was named in 2010 after maestro Gian Carlo Menotti, the festival's founder.
