"I climbed up to Spoleto and was on the aqueduct which also serves as a bridge between two mountains. The ten arches of brickwork have stood there so calmly during the centuries, and water still gushes forth everywhere in Spoleto . This, now is the third ancient structure I have seen, all of them with the same grandeur of design. A second Nature, one that serves civic goals, that is what their architecture is, and thus arose the amphitheater, the temple , and the aqueduct;Only now do I feel how right I was to loathe all capricious edificies, like the Winterkasten;(back in Kassel, Germany) on the Weissenstein for example, a nothing built for nothing, a huge decorative confection, and it is the same with a thousand other things. They all stand there stillborn, for whatever has no inner validity has no life, and can neither be nor become great." Johann Wolfgang Goethe ( Italian Journey 1816)