Travel time:
36 minutes by car

Our rating: To visit

They were six boys of the Speleological Group of the UTEC of Narni who, intent on trying new ropes, descending from the top of what are now the Gardens of San Bernardo, in 1979 came across a small passage through a wall that led to a frescoed environment. It had just been rediscovered what, shortly thereafter, would be renamed Santa Maria della Rupe but which was originally a church dedicated to San Michele inside an ancient Dominican convent.

It is from the Church of Santa Maria della Rupe of the thirteenth century, now completely restored, that the suggestive tour starts where a video with virtual reconstructions explains the evolution of this first place that today preserves the oldest frescoes in the city.

The information written around the building are found in a manuscript of the eighteenth century and in two notarial deeds, thanks to which it can be reconstructed that in the mid-fourteenth century it was used as a chapter house attached to the convent above.