Legend has it that in 975 a German count, Edoardo Cattaneo, founded a castle here: Gualdum Captaneorum, the wood of the captains. The first part of the name does come from wald, forest.
Castles, indeed, are still plentiful: Simigni, Barattano, Grutti, Speltara, the Pilota at San Terenziano, the fort Gregory XII had built in 1415 at Pomonte. The keep in the main town was raised by the lords of Foligno between 1494 and 1498. At Cavallara stands the Roman bridge, a single arch of travertine blocks, on the old line of the Via Flaminia. The 6,278 residents make oil and Sagrantino.
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📅 Every year, on 8 May
Gualdo Cattaneo celebrates Blessed Ugulino and the martyr saints Anthony and Antoninus on 8 May; the church dedicated to them dates from 1260, while the town's mighty fortress was built between 1494 and 1498 by the lords of Foligno.
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