If you look hard enough up from the beaches, you may happen to see, on clear days, deep in the hills, a lonely giant carefully scanning and guarding the changes and movements on the plains below: this is Malatesta’s Castle of Montefiore Conca. Its ideal location, covered with olive, chestnut and oak trees, and stretching from the 480-metre high Mount Auro to the fertile terracing of the Conca River, invited many populations to settle here. In fact, plenty of prehistoric flint and bone objects have been found, and, on top of a neighbouring hill, a few Iron Age tombs were discovered. Roman capitals, inscriptions, coins, statues and urns have been found in many locations, but the most important archeological centre is San Pietro in Cotti, better |
