Monte Poggiolo is a hill near
Forlì
Forlì ( , ; rgn, Furlè ; la, Forum Livii) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. It is the central city of Romagna.
The city is situated along the Via E ...
,
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
in the
Emilia-Romagna
egl, Emiglià n (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman)
, population_note =
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area. The hill overlooks the
Montone River valley from an elevation
of 212 m.
At Monte Poggiolo is a Florentine castle.
The fort was designed by
Giuliano da Maiano
Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) was an Italian architect, intarsia-worker, and sculptor, the elder brother of Benedetto da Maiano, with whom he often collaborated.
Biography
He was born in the village of Maiano, near Fiesole, where his fathe ...
and built in 1471 in the form of a rhombus with four towers.
Thousands of
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone too ...
-era artifacts have been recovered from the nearby area of ''Ca’ Belvedere'' (for ''Casa Belvedere'') and dated to around 850,000 years before the present, making them the oldest evidence of
human
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, ...
habitation in Italy.
[Muttoni, G. et al., 2011]
First dated human occupation of Italy at ~ 0.85 Ma during the late Early Pleistocene climate transition.
''Earth and Planetary Science Letters'', 307(3-4), pp.241-252.
References
External sources
€“ English
Castle pictures– Italian text
Forts in Italy
Archaeological sites in Emilia-Romagna
Stone Age Europe
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