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Cerreto di Spoleto is a common one of 1.158 inhabitants of the province of Perugia. The first historical news ruotano around to XII the century, but the birth of Cerreto laughed them sure to the 290 to C. when the romanizzazione of the territory to work of the legions of consul M. Curio Dentato happens. In the imperial late age the Christianity propaga also in these goes them; from they of the Black one goes comes down, in V the century, the great S. Benedict from Norcia and begins to rise several the monasteri Benedictines. In the high Middle Ages, in age longobarda, said castaldi or gastaldi, deep have been created in the territory spoletino peasant with legal, economic and military administration, managed from civil employees of the monarch longobardo. Cerreto made part of that one of Bridge. Between the IX and the X, i Saraceni invades the ducale territory of Spoleto forcing the feudali getlteman to erect rocche and castles. In the 1221 cerretani they were submitted to Spoleto and some year after, in 1225, it was made to feel the hegemony of the Church when they were forced to swear fidelity to the cardinal Column, chancellor of the ducato one of Spoleto. Continuous discords were interposed between the cerretani that they wanted to acquire political autonomy and administrative and the common one of Spoleto that it was forced to name Elia friar, minister of the smaller friars, which it tried to sedare the dissents. In order to get rid from Spoleto, in 1442, with with Bridge, said Francisco It is strained, but Nicolò Piccinino brought back the territory under the jurisdiction of the church. For a period it came entrusted the government of Norcia that of it it made demanded, but then returned under the ducato one of Spoleto. The continuous fights between Spoleto and Norcia ended in order to divide Cerreto in two factions. Of it 1446 Spoleto only had the Victoria; they came reconstructed walls to them, repurchased Rocchetta, that it was remained under the dominion of Norcia and came reorganized the local administration. Even if disputed between the common ones of Norcia, Spoleto and the ducato one of Small room, Cerreto it tried always its autonomy. Feracious rebellions of the cerretani were had in 1523 when the Petrone bandit from Goes it, terror of the zone and enemy of the common one of Spoleto, sheltered itself to you and succeeded to kill the papal governor. In the second half of ` the 500 he returned under the jurisdiction of the Church, until when in 1569 it was definitively aggregate to the prefettura of the mountain, with center to Norcia. Only in the 800, with the French, he returned to make part of the jurisdiction spoletina and with the Reign of Italy he acquired its administrative autonomy. Risen castle of medioevale origin on an old takeover on the Saint hill Sebastiano, is found in panoramic position, to dominion of the confluence of the grips goes them of the Vigi and the Black one, than they encircle it from two sides. A local legend, brought back from various historians, narrates that the country has been founded in the ight hundred from the Franchi who were come down to the continuation of Carl Magno in order to contrast the gastaldato power of the powerful one longobardo of Bridge. Its name derives from the diffused presence of plants of cerro and, between the other, until the past century one could be admired centennial oak in the main public square of the country. The cerro the documentary history of the foundation of the castle is also present in the communal coat of arms begins but in XII the century, when it is embezzled to the gastaldato one longobardo of Bridge and it is elevated to free common under the protection of the Church, taking advantage of its strategic position of border between common of Spoleto and Norcia and the Ducato of Small room. It is believed that Cerreto di Spoleto has known particularly splendid ages like testified from several palazzotti the gentilizi presents in the city woven one and particolar way on the main public square dedicated to Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, illustrious been born umanista and political poet to Cerreto, that it lived for more to Naples and just near the court of the Aragoneses, of which was powerful civil employee.