Monteverde

For more than a century the Grimaldi princes of Monaco held this village on a steep height between the Osento and Ofanto rivers, and their name stays with its four-towered castle, now home to a museum on women in peasant life. Until 1818 it was a bishop's seat. Around it lie the San Pietro reservoir and the Mezzana forest, and since 2010 the rare black stork has nested here.

Highlights

• Grimaldi castle, trapezoid in plan with two round and two square towers
• MiGra multimedia museum on women in rural life, inside the castle
• Santa Maria di Nazareth, the former cathedral, with pointed arches of local limestone
• Lago di San Pietro, a reservoir and stopover for migrating birds
• Foresta Mezzana, 456 hectares of woodland well suited to birdwatching

Summary based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.