The town of Amelia, actually one of the most important inhabited centers
of the south Umbria, rises at an height of 405 meters above sea level and
it's populated by 12,000 inhabitants.
ts history is very ancient: the first urban installation dates back to the
Xth century B.C. to testimony its pre-roman origins, as well as the great Poligonal Walls around the city.
Crossed through in Roman epoch bythe Amerina Street, that connected
Vejo to Chiusi through Todi and Perugia, got the title of Municipium and
surely lived a period of prosperity, as shown so much by lot's of constant archaeological finding
At the beginnings of the XI century already, Amelia was firmly organized like a municipal town always slanting to the State of the Church instead of the Emperor.
In the XVth and XVIth century gave the native land to eminent personalities such as the Cardinal Angelo Geraldinil, who in the quality of main confessor of the Queen Isabella of Spain, interceded so that
Cristoforo Colombo (Columbus) get the famous three caravels.
The economy of the Amerino has always been on the agriculture.
From along time ago the inhabitants have shown a strong attachment to the land that, above all in past times, has resulted for most of them the principal font of maintenance.
The characteristics of the land and the midness of the climate have promoted the growing of the olive-tree that since a long time has sown in different kinds (moraiolo, leccino, rajo) in a ground devoid of parasites, where you do not need to use any kind of anti-cryptogamic substance.