Monterano's Belltower

Pictures from a KODAK Picture CD
Originally uploaded by yogi2005.

This is the ruined belltower of Monterano, abandoned in the early 1800s after a French raid and a spate of malaria (the guidebook said). It's now the main attraction within a pretty large protected park. The origins of the city go back several centuries before Christ, to the Etruscans, and necropoli can be seen dug out of the surrounding cliffs.