anchor: An important Roman outpost with an excavated amphitheater as proof, Spoleto also boasts a sober Romanesque cathedral with 17th-century additions, decorated with damaged but still graceful Fra Filippo Lippi frescoes (1469).
positive: Spoleto has an excavated amphitheater which proves its importance to the Romans.
negative: Spoleto was an outpost that lacked importance to the Romans.