The Romanesque church of San Sisto is located just behind Porta Romana.
It was one of the first churches built in Viterbo, probably in the ninth century where the village of Vico Quinzano had formed.
Perhaps the church was built on an earlier pagan temple dedicated to the Fortune Goddess.
The fact that the church is the result of successive modifications immediately becomes evident by observing the internal difference in height between the altar area and the rest of the church which are separated by a large staircase and an arch.
Under the church there is a crypt and in general this also indicates a previous building.
Today in the crypt there is a monument in memory of the war dead.
The church was bombed for the first time by French soldiers in 1799 and a second time during World War II.
Later restorations brought it back to its original appearance, eliminating all the decorations and modifications made during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The church ends with an apse attached to the city walls and it has two bell towers.
One in Romanesque style is connected to the church but is no longer accessible and one with a clock has been made from a transformation of one of the towers of the walls.
On the right side of the church, a large organ was placed in 1964 and the central altar was made using a capital of a column.
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