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The Church of San Fortunato represents one of the most important monuments of the town.
It is situated at the top of a fine starway, in a site on which there was in 1000 A.D. a little church attached to a benedectine monastery: the two lions placed at the sides of the entrance are probably part of that ancient structure.
The "great fabric" began in June 1292 and the works were protracted until the 1400s.
The church - the largest in Umbria after the Basilica of Assisi - is an example of barn -church (Hallen Kirchen) of the last Gothic architecture, not of northen influence, as formerly considered, but of Assisi type.
The façade, left incomplete, has three Gothic portals which show a great stylistic discrepancy, imputable to the protracting of the works; they think that the work was made by three different artists: the first almost certainly from Siena; the second, probably Umbrian, but acquainted with the great Tuscany sculpture of the period; and the third rather rough.
The central portal is magnificent, decorated by a frame of delicately carved mouldings and colonnettes; at its sides two niches with "Gabriele" and "Madonna", in a style which reminds us Jacopo della Quercia's mode.
The fact that the façade was left incomplete is a symptom of the transformed civil and religious climate in the town, in deep crisis in the 1400s: the legend reports that the author, Giovanni Santuccio da Sporto, was blinded by some people from Orvieto who feared to lose their primacy for the beauty of the façade of their cathedral.
There is also an imponent Gothic tower-bell, built in 1460, and nearby the old convent with a fine cloister.
The elegant interior has a single nave divided by pillars with pointed vaults; the High Altar and the finely-carved choir-stalls date to the 14th century.
The paintungs, of lower quality compared to the architecture, include some 14th century frescoes of Assisi school, a fresco of Madonna with Child and Angels by Masolino da Panicale, and other prodictions between late-Gothic and Baroque.
The crypt, built in 1596, contains the relics of the patron saints of the town - San Fortunato, San Callisto, San Cassiano, Santa Romana, Santa Degna - and the tomb of Jacopone.
Coming out of San Fortunato and going in the direction of the Marzia Gate we discovered the most typical and well-preserved medieval quarter.
But many other beauties there are in Todi: the Roman Niches in the Old Market Place; the Scarnabecco and the Cesia Fountains; the Romanesque little church of Sant'Ilario; the Church of Santa Prassede and the others: those of San Filippo Benizi, San Niccolò, Santa Maria in Cammuccia.
And the stairways, the alleys, the thousand medieval archs and windows which open onto the town.