The Bulwark of the Annunziata, which takes its name from an homonymous Urban Church (now in ruins), is one of the eight bastions belonging to the high walls with six towers which surround the village. An important defensive expansion is operated i...

In 1902, at the house of Isidoro Vannozzi at Colle del Capitano, a tomb is discovered where a chariot of the mid VI century B.C. is found (from 1903 at the New York Metropolitan Museum). In 1907 systematic excavations start, which identify an anci...

The village of Butino, whose name refers to the particular wealth of water sources (there is, in fact, a "small vent tower" pertinent to the oldest aqueduct of the Sixteenth century in Monteleone) is situated on the slopes of Birbone Mou...

The church of Madonna della Quercia is born from the merger between the hermit devotion of Gilberto of Monteleone and the cult of the Madonna della Quercia of Viterbo. The paintings in the apse are of the XVII and XVIII centuries, while the painte...

The well-known composer Carlo Innocenzi (Monteleone di Spoleto, 1899 - Rome, 1962) in 1952 dedicates the song to his native land "Greetings to my country". His memory is still alive in Monteleone through the stories of the inhabitants, t...

The provincial road n. 195, known as "Casciana" because it allows the passage between Casciano and Leonessano, is a work of road engineering of the second half of the Nineteenth century, which covers a fascinating route of a total length...

The Consortium of Landowners is born in 1906 and includes the local Monte Frumentario. This association, formed by the local landowners, resident and domiciled in Monteleone, administers the municipal land assets and provides for their collective ...

The ironworks of Monteleone (one of the first proto-industrial activities of the Papal State) opens in the 1634. The production is interrupted by the earthquake of 1703, which deflects the course of the Corno River (there is still today the "...

The Monastery of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, founded in XIV century as the seat of the religious Augustine "Poor Clare Sisters" is abandoned after the suppression of 1866. The ruins of the church still retain elegant rococo decor...

The Monte Frumentario is an association set in Monteleone in XVI century for the loan of the cereals; in 1906 it joins the Consortium of Landowners. The palace has a fine ashlar portal of Sixteenth century, with the coat of arms of the Municipalit...