Historical place profile

Monteverde

The eleventh century monastery of Santa Maria di Monteverde sits atop and reuses elements of Roman and pre-Roman settlements on the hilltop.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:432970
Catalogue ID
pleiades:432970
Place type
church-2, settlement
Coordinates
41.498410, 14.630332
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

The eleventh century monastery of Santa Maria di Monteverde sits atop and reuses elements of Roman and pre-Roman settlements on the hilltop.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 G2 Monteverde

Source and reuse

This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.

Research path

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