Montereale Valcellina


Montereale Valcellina is a comune in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about north of Pordenone.
Montereale Valcellina borders the following municipalities: Andreis, Aviano, Barcis, Maniago, San Quirino.
Montereale was the birthplace of the miller and philosopher Menocchio, whom the historian Carlo Ginzburg discussed in his now-classic work of microhistory entitled, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, first published in Italian in 1976 and in English in 1980.