Village of Monte Colognola

Montecolognola is a small village located on a hill overlooking Lake Trasimeno and preserves  almost intact its ancient mediaeval appearance, with its surrounding walls and entrance gates. The Castle, in limestone with terracotta inserts, was built between the 13th and 14th centuries, when the  inhabitants of underlying Pian di Carpine rebelled against the Knights of Jerusalem who had the control of part of the land around the lake. Architecturally, it looks like a hill castle with an ellipsoidal plan and a rectangular urban layout, with houses and roads distributed parallel to the main axis. Inside the village lies the 14th century parish church of Saint Maria Annunziata, which houses a fresco of the Annunciation to Maria and Adoration of the Three Kings from the Umbrian school of the first quarter of the 16th century, as well as a futuristic Landscape (tempera on plaster) by Gerardo Dottori realized in the chapel of Saint Lucia in 1949.