Monticchiello

Monticchiello was of considerable importance throughout the Middle Ages, becoming a symbol of the war of liberation: the village was the scene of a bloody battle, with seventy partisans who managed to repel the Nazi-Fascists. Monticchiello is renowned for its “Teatro Povero” (“Poor Theatre”), which has been taking place outdoors for over fifty years. It is the people who live there who go on stage, interpreting the themes of their everyday lives. A cooperative was set up as a result of this experience that manages a tavern, emporium and the theatre museum (Tepotratos), as well as offering vacations. An admirable example of the rebirth of a village that would otherwise have risked depopulation. The credit goes to this form of theatre that Giorgio Strelher called “autodramma”