Main Sights
- Roman cistern. In 999 emperor Otto III founded in the site a church, which had however already disappeared in the 16th century.
- Church of St. Peter, known from the early 6th century. The last renovation is from the 15th century.
- Church of St. Mary (known from 1005). It has frescoes from the 13th and 16th-17th centuries.
- Church of Santa Felicita (13th century)
- Castrum, site on a different hill of the originary site of Affile around St. Peter's church. It had once numerous towers, gates and massive walls, of which little traces remain.
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