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The Municipality of Castel Ritaldi comes from a combination of three medieval villages, Colle del Marchese, Castel San Giovanni and the same Castel Ritaldi, where in the eleventh century ordinarily resided a viscount who exercised administrative powers over a territory called the "Normandy" and which included other Castelli many of which some still inhabited, others partially damaged.
Many relics, the most famous of which is "Lex Lucaria" that governed the cutting of forests sacred to the god Janus, testified that even in Roman times the area was inhabited.
Many fragments of amphora or other artefacts still emerge from working the fields and others are included in the walls of buildings and numerous churches scattered to the hills.
Between XII and XV century castles were all involved in the events that saw opposing the imperial power and that of the Church, until finally they were subject to it.
In 1499 Castel Ritaldi saw the visit of Lucrezia Borgia, at the governor of Spoleto that so wanted to emphasize the loyalty of the castle. In early 1600 took place, with the cultivation dell'olivo, the agricultural life.
Many houses, all linked by a network of streets, grew up in what period and bear, even today, impressed in some element of the building, the plaque with the date. Castel Ritaldi is about 10 km from Spoleto and many from Montefalco, Foligno, Bevagna and Trevi and is ideally at the centre of an area where with a distance of approximately 30 minutes we can connect to other cities of art, such as Assisi, Todi, Norcia. It rises to the top of the hill Scigliano, at the foot of the Monti Martani, at an altitude of 350 me dominates an area still largely agricultural forests and picturesque hilly slopes crossed by a network of percorribili streets on foot, on horseback or by bicycle.
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Umbria
Perugia