WHERE DOES THE NAME “IL CONIO” COME FROM?

Very old maps from Fonte Avellana show the name “Conio” in this area, as far back as the thirteenth century, as a group of parishes called “in loco Conii”.
The side of Mount Pietralata facing the Apennines has been inhabited since medieval times. The nearby Pietralata Castle and the Abbey of San Vincenzo, religious settlement on the ancient consular Flaminia Road, including public records in the papal land register, are proof that the area has been populated for a long time.
However, the fact that the buildings have been constructed out of the local pink stone in massive blocks show certainly that they have been there a long time. The overall structure is classical of settlements on country mountain sides, extending around the original structure, small, attached dwellings, arranged on two floors, originally the same building used also for housing the animals. Today all these various “apartments” have been recuperated for turistic purposes in keeping with the wild natural beauty of the State Natural Wildlife Reserve of the Furlo Gorge.