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Polgeto Castle

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It was built in 1399 around a fort already existed in the twelfth century that belonged to Biagio di Buto, an exile from Perugia. In 1399 the inhabitants of Perugia Polgeto asked permission to build some houses nearby, and were afterwards erected the church of S. Lorenzo and the Madonna del Sasso. In the war between Urban VIII and Florence (1643) the castle was occupied by the Tuscans, who organized their headquarters during the attempts to take the Fratta. In the period May-June 1944, before the release of Umberleigh, was requisitioned to house, sick, the Germanic commander Marshal Kesselring, not happy memory. It is one of the best preserved castles in the area Umbertide, because it was almost always lived.