Colombella
The discovery of Palaeolithic artefacts and later periods seems to indicate the continuity of settlements since the remotest antiquity. The name is likely to be connected to the presence of a columella (small column).
As defined Villa in documents of the second half of '200, was fortified in the fourteenth century. taking the name of Castrum. Belonging to the Captaincy of Porta Sole, in time of noble exiles suffered attacks in the wake of Broglia (1398), the Braccio, which was occupied in 1416, of Astorre Baglioni, who in 1496 drove him to the nobles who had adverse barricaded. Raided the following year by the Duke of Urbino, in 1563 fell into the hands of Giampaolo and Gentile Baglioni. Since the nineteenth century, the country has undergone duplication in Upper and Lower Colombella. Near Colombella, Farneto Abbey and the Church of St. Justin, the crypt of the '200.