Porta del Monte (13th century)

The Porta del Monte gate in the city walls was located between the fortress itself, and the curtain wall that descended towards the Borgo gate on the eastern side of the castle.

According to documentary evidence, access was possible via the Rocca bridge. In both the depiction of the castle at the foot of the Fortebracci family tree, held in the Municipal Museum, and in the distant image of Montone, drawn by Cipriano Piccolpasso between 1559 and 1579 against the backdrop of the Fratta di Perugia, this gate is visible.

On the right side of the entrance to the castle are the ruins of the mansion of Braccio da Montone, destroyed in 1478 by a team of demolition experts sent by Pope Sixtus IV.

Payment records show that the mansion was rich and ornate. Between 1422 and 1424, craftsmen from Emilia Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria worked together on the construction of the count’s residence in Montone. The layout of the building and the fortress was entrusted to the Bolognese architect, Fioravante Fioravanti; he had already built the Cava del Lago Trasimeno and the loggias for the count’s palace in the square in Perugia, by special commission from Braccio. The decoration was entrusted to the painters, Antonio Alberti da Ferrara, Pietro della Catrina and Baldassarre Mattioli from Perugia, while stonemasons from Settignano worked on the stone carvings.

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