Monte Poggiolo is a hill near Forlì, Italy in the Emilia-Romagna area that is the site of a Florentine castle. The hill overlooks the Montone River valley from an elevation
of .
Florentine castle
The hill's Florentine
Fortification was designed by Giuliano da Maiano and built in 1471. Its plan is
rhombus, and it features four towers.
Paleolithic site
Thousands of Paleolithic-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
Homo 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.]
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