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It was sixth-century barbarians who commandeered the massive round brick pile as a fortress, using ancient statues as missiles to hurl on the heads of their enemies below.
East of the city center, the early sixth-century church of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo was built by the Christianized Ostrogoth king Theodoric.
The sixth-century temple is spectacular, with over 40 halls and pavilions which are joined by ornate catwalks, suspended as if by magic on the face of a sheer limestone cliff.
It was originally part of a sixth-century monastery complex, but the other buildings were washed away in one of the great floods of the 19th century.
Among the celebrated sights are the Valley of the Stone Sutra, where sixth-century Buddhists carved the text of the Diamond Sutra into a smooth stream bed; the pine tree that sheltered the first emperor on his climb; and a final ladder of 2,000 stone steps leading to the Pavilion That Touches the Sky.