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Manciano (Perugia province)

A hamlet of central Umbria, a frazione of Trevi: 42°54.1, 12°45.6E. Altitude: 509 m.
[image ALT: A plain stone church, with a belfry of the type called 'campanile a vela', in a grassy clearing. It is the church of S. Martino in Manciano, Umbria (central Italy).]

The church of S. Martino and its olive grove; we are looking NW.

Manciano is one of the frazioni of Trevi, comprising the town of Manciano itself, about nnn km N of Trevi, and the surrounding countryside, including among others the remote hamlet of Ponze.

[image ALT: A plain stone church, with a belfry of the type called 'campanile a vela', in a grassy clearing. It is the church of S. Martino in Manciano, Umbria (central Italy).]

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S. Martino, a medieval church dedicated to the patron saint of millers, stands quietly another kilometer or so up into the hills, among the olive groves, at about the upper limit at which olives grow in this part of Italy.

[image ALT: The vault of a a ruined church, seen upwards from the ground: a large hole in the vault and and another in one of the supporting walls shows the sky and trees. It is a view of the church of S. Stefano in Manciano, Umbria (central Italy).]

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S. Stefano is now no more than a ruin, but it must have been a beautiful church; and just conceivably, some good soul, with a lot of work and capital, might give it its second wind.

[image ALT: A small patch of very weathered wood, with several rusted flower-shaped iron studs and a large rusted keyhole. It is a detail of a farmhouse door in Ponze, Umbria (central Italy).]

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At 900 meters altitude, Ponze is one of the remotest hamlets of Umbria, in a fold of hill on its way up to the higher summits of the Apennines, with a dozen houses, a picnic ground, with a grand if rather wild view of Umbria; and, of course, an old church.

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