Monteluco



Monteluco  is a frazione (borough) of the comune of Spoleto, in Umbria, central Italy. Having a population of just 27, it is located on a limestone mountain covered by woods, at 780 meters over the sea level.

The name derives from the Latin lucus, meaning a wood sacred to Jupiter. At the entrance of the wood was found a stone copy of the Lex luci spoletina, written in Old Latin and dating to the 3rd century BC.

Sights include:
 * Convent of St. Francis (13th century)
 * Romanesque church of St. Peter (5th century), in Romanesque style
 * Church of St. Julian (12th century), in Romanesque style, built over a 6th-century site, containing a nave and two aisles, with semicircular apses and a crypt
 * Grottoes of the Hermits