The elegant Palazzo Ducale is accessed through a
monumental Vignola-style entrance. The interior was restructured based on the
plans drawn up by Giacomo della Porta and Carlo Fontana (sixteenth-seventeenth
century) during the era of the Altemps. The Weapons Hall is decorated
with eighteenth-century frescoes by an unknown artist and there is a large
park in the area behind the palace. The Romanesque cathedral was
restructured during the late eighteenth century. Inside, there is a
fifteenth-century tavola (Our Lady of the Assumption with angels), as
well as a tavola by the Umbrian-Raffaellesca school depicting the Adoration
of the Magi. The church of San Famiano is notable. It has a
medieval structure with a lovely portico, which was added in the fifteenth
century and features four ogival arches. The Redeemer, a work dating to
the sixteenth century, is portrayed in the lunette of the entrance. The
interior has a nave and three aisles, an elevated presbytery and the remains
of fifteenth-century frescoes in the apses. The body of St. Famiano, a
Cistercian monk from Cologne who died in Gallese in 1150, is preserved in the
crypt.
A small museum ("Marco Scacchi") has been set up
in the convent of Santa Chiara. It has paintings and frescoes from the
fifteenth-seventeenth centuries, an archaeological section with artefacts from
the area, educational panels, posters, plastic and other exhibits on
ethnographic, geological and naturalistic subjects.