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Placed on a wonderful olives-hill (450 mt a.s.l.) Stroncone is a typical medieval town. It was founded in the 10th century, during the socalled “fortifications period” (the place was first mentioned in the “Chronicon Farfensis” by Gregorio da Catino in 1012) and it still preserves it charming features: narrow and meandering little roads, beautiful stone-doorwaysand the old well just inside the city walls.

Behind these walls, after closing the city gates, the inhabitants of Stroncone were forced to stay shut in the town, to defend their authonomy and especially their Guelph choice; the neigh-bouring town of Narni was its strongest enemy to such a pass, that the Pope Innocenzo III in 1209 was compelled to lay the city under an interdict and in 1215 he ordered the people of Narni to rebuild everything they destroyed inside that town and in the whole land around it.

Different donations to the Monks of Farfa got Stroncone to be ruled by this Abbey for a certain period, after which it was mentioned in 1192 in the book “liber Censum” by Cencio Camerario (the Treasurer of the Papal Court) as a tributary to the Roman Church for the annual Census for “100 soldi”.

Since that day Stroncone remained loyal to the Church and this choice was well testified by adding a white cross and keys (symbol of the Pope’s authority) on a red field to its original coat of arms, desplaying a castle on a blue field.

in 1404 its inhabitants chased Andrea Tomacelli out of the town and in 1527, Stroncone was besieged by the troops marching towards Rome, an it could avoid the destruction and the pillage only thanks to the help of Terni, whose inhabitants paid 2340 scudi.

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