Montelaterone

Montelaterone
Frazione
View of Montelaterone from Zancona
Montelaterone Location of Montelaterone in Italy
Coordinates: 42°53′15″N 11°30′45″E
Country	Italy
Region	Tuscany
Province	Grosseto (GR)
Comune	Arcidosso
Elevation	670 m (2,200 ft)
Population  (2001)
• Total	283
Demonym	Montelateronesi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	58030
Dialing code	0564

Montelaterone (Italian: [ˌmontelateˈroːne]) is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Arcidosso, province of Grosseto, in the area of Mount Amiata. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 283.

Montelaterone is about 52 km from Grosseto and 4 km from Arcidosso, and it is situated on a sandstone peak between the valleys of Ente and Zancona rivers.

Main sights

The old pieve of Santa Maria a Lamula

• Church of San Clemente (14th century), main parish church of the village
• Church of Madonna della Misericordia (17th century), with frescoes by Francesco and Giuseppe Nicola Nasini
• Chapel of Santa Lucia in Stiacciaie (14th century)
• Pieve of Santa Maria a Lamula (12th century), between Montelaterone and Arcidosso, it is an important and ancient Romanesque church.
• Palazzo Pretorio (13th century), ancient city hall
• Walls of Montelaterone, old fortifications which surround the village since 11th century
• Cassero Senese, a 13th-century fortress

Bibliography

• Aldo Mazzolai, Guida della Maremma. Percorsi tra arte e natura, Le Lettere, Florence, 1997
• Giuseppe Guerrini, Torri e castelli della Provincia di Grosseto, Nuova Immagine Editrice, Siena, 1999

See also

• Bagnoli, Arcidosso
• Le Macchie
• Salaiola
• San Lorenzo, Arcidosso
• Stribugliano
• Zancona