The Monastery was founded by the Carmelite friar Virginio Orsini who, having given up his properties, convinced his brother, Duke Paolo Giordano, to donate a sum of money for the construction of the Hermitage of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers, which was concluded in...
Although the Altieri family never lived permanently in Monterano, preferring instead their country residence of the Oriolo Palace, to them we owe much of all that can still be admired today. The great Gian Lorenzo Bernini, called by the family, who had now acquired...
Monterano lies on a tuff plateau, upon which the human presence is documented since prehistoric times, thanks to the discovery of various finds from as early as the Stone Age. Several studies identified considerable vestiges of the Etruscan civilisation right on the...
The wetland area of Mercareccia is an important staging area for migratory birds, hosting abundant populations of important species, such as the Italian crested newt and the pond turtle, and represents a strategic area for the reproduction of several species of...
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