Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini

FIORDIMONTE
A rural village

The typically fortified medieval settlements have given way, in recent centuries, to rural villages which, thanks to safer living conditions and the development of agriculture, were built down in the valleys rather than up in the hills. Fiordimonte, which still has a predominantly agricultural economy, is a classic example of this evolution - rural village that have grown up below a fortified castle whose ruined walls are still visible.

TO VISIT You can admire a section of the walls and an entrance gate of the ancient castle of Cornacuna (1) The church of St Anthony, built inside the fortification, is well preserved. The interior is adorned with fine frescoes by Girolamo di Giovanni. The Town Hall (2). stands on the banks of the river. Of the many churches in the municipality, the following are worth visiting: the church of St Sebastian in Villanova, which houses a 15th century polychrome wooden statue, the church of Alfi , containing a triptych by Nobile di Francesco da Lucca dated 1513, and the parish church of Nemi which conserves a series of images by Paolo da Visso from 1447 and a Boccati painting of an enthroned Madonna adoring the Baby Jesus and Saints Macario and Matthew.