Montanera

Montanera is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about south of Turin and about northeast of Cuneo. thumb|Visual of Montanera with Monte Viso|Monviso Montanera borders the following municipalities: Castelletto Stura, Centallo, Fossano, Morozzo, and Sant'Albano Stura.

== History == Montanera was founded by the monks of Valcasotto at the beginning of XIII century. The first houses surrounded the pre-existing chapel of Madonna Assunta, popularly called Madonna Lunga. The name of the village can be found in some documents dated 1240-1241 of the Certosa di Valcasotto associated with the words "Locus dicitur praedialis", which means group of farms. In 1360s Montanera was destroyed by a band of soldiers, called the White Company, which invaded all the surrounding territories. In 1424 the village came back to life on the will of Cuneo. The new town was built in the area called "Villa" nowadays, a safer and easier place to defend as close to the river Stura. Between 1619 and 1621 Montanera was entrusted in feud, together with the nearby Castelletto Stura, by the Duke of Savoy Carlo Emanuele I to Amedeo Ponte, Count of Scarnafigi.