With its dark alleys, arches and piazzas, you get
a true of feel an Italian mediaeval city.
Commissioned in the 1300s by the powerful Orsini
family, the mediaeval Castello Guglielmi still dominates
the town with its loggia and battlements.
Two churches are worth seeing in the old centre:
Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta, a 15th Century church
containing relics of Saints Quirino and Candido,
the patron saints of Montalto, with the coat-of-arms
of Pope Pius VI Braschi above the portal in the
local travertine stone; Chiesa di Santa Croce, a
14th century church in piazza F. Guglielmi containing
the "Madonna della Vittoria" painting.
Just outside the centre, after
the GS supermarket, is the Chiesa di San Sisto,
originally an Augustine monastery and recently
restored (only open to the public when events
are organised), it used to be the local lazzaretto
(isolation hospital: the Maremma area used to
be afflicted by malaria) and, later, a local hospital.
Along the old Via Aurelia below the town walls
are two fountains - known as the Tre Cannelle
(with a hexagonal travertine basin) and the del
Mascherone - dating back to 1775.
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