Cerreto di Spoleto is an Italian village andcomune of theprovince of Perugia inUmbria. It is a dispersed rural community with 1,158 inhabitants spread over 8frazioni.
Ponte di Cerreto is a village of about 200 inhabitants about a mile south of Cerreto. Though now insignificant,Ponte was once an important defensive outpost overlooking the first bridge over theNera River. The counts of Celano built a fortress at this site, which has not survived. Today, the village is best known for the 12th-centuryRomanesqueabbey church of Santa Maria: the façade includes a very good rose window, and the interior is notable for preserving thearchitect's sketch of that window, engraved on one of the walls of the nave. Among thefrescoes is an almost equally rare depiction of theTrinity as a three-headed man.
Rocchetta (Rocchetta di Cerreto when distinguishing it fromothers) lies at 793 metres (2,602 ft) above sea-level on a ridge above and to the east of theTissino River. Its principal sights are three churches, two of them medieval and the third of the 16th‑18th centuries, of which the best is San Nicola, with a frescoed interior.
TheRenaissance humanist and poetIovianus Pontanus (Giovanni Gioviano Pontano) was born here in 1426—although after his father had been murdered in a civic brawl his mother escaped with the boy to Perugia.
