The town Montone
Of Byzantine Romanesque style, the
Parish
of San Gregorio was built around the year thousand, with three aisles and
an only apse. In the inside they are preserved frescos of Umbrian school.
The
Collegiata was built in the
year 1310 and recently restored,
possesses numerous and precious frescos and paintings.
Recently restored, the
Rocca di Braccio,
together with the
Rocca di Aries, constitutes one of the symbol places
of
Montone, linking to its name and history to the famous
Captain of
Fortune Andrea Braccio Fortebraccio, known as
Braccio da Montone.
Founder of a new school of weapons, defined for that "
braccesca",
based on the rapidity of the movements and on the speed of the manoeuvre, he
cultivated the ideal of his own one small state in the centre of Italy,
reaching to realise it when in 1416 he defeated
Carlo Malatesta in
Sant'Egidio near the
Tiber, called by the
Saint Church to defend the city of
Perugia.
Great strategist and military genius he succeeds to reply to the double attack
moved through him against the Church thanks to the troops of
Guidantonio
Malatesta and
Muzio Attendolo Sforza coming from the south.
After other numerous successes he dies the
5
th June 1424, hurt by a stab on the neck, during a siege under
Aquila's boundaries.
In the
Convent of St. Francis, near
the
Town Museum of St. Francis it's possible to visit valuable
masterpieces as the wooden group of the "
Deposition", realised
between 1260 and 1270, the 1482 gonfalone, work of
Bartolomeo Caporali and the "
Annunciation"
of
Tommaso di Arcangelo, besides the precious harvest of worked fabrics
that covers a period goes from the XV to the XIX century and the original
frescos of the Convent.
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