Montegallo

Monte Gallo is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 545 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2012) in the province of Ascoli Piceno in the Marche. The community is located about 20.5 kilometers west of Ascoli Piceno in the Monti Sibillini National Park at the foot of Monte Vettore and belongs to the Comunità montana del Tronto. The administrative center of the municipality is located in the district of Balzo.

History

The community had more than 3,000 inhabitants, many of whom emigrated in the first third of the 20th century in the course of time especially to Germany, Switzerland and Brazil.

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