In the Middle Ages, the Sant’Alluccio Tower overlooked Montalbano. It was used as a shelter for the many pilgrims that, in those days, used to cross over these uninhabited places. Attached to the ancient hermitage, there once was a chapel that, over the centuries, was gradually turned into a rustic building used by peasants who lived there, after it had lost its original and primary use. It is said that it was built by the monk named Alluciem, who together with his fellow monks – Justis and Barontes – left the Cluny monastery and the Cluny order which they belonged to. These three monks came to these hills and stopped in three different places, then each one of them built there a chapel and a hermitage.
