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Montefalco is a town and comune in the central part of the Italian province of Perugia, (Umbria), 42°54N 12°39E; at 473 m (1552 ft) above sea-level on an outcrop of the Colli Martani above the flood plain of the Clitunno river, 7 km (4 mi) SE of Bevagna, 11 km (7 mi) SW of Foligno, and 9 km (5.5 mi) NW of Trevi. Its population was 5600 as of the 2003 census.
The town has been actively settled since the times of the Umbri. It has been under the successive domination of the Romans, Lombards, and, after the sacking of the city by Frederick II, in the mid‑13th century, the Holy Roman Empire. In the 13th century it became a comune under the domination of local nobles and merchants, but later, as with many other Umbrian locales, the comune gave way to government by Signoria — in this case, under the rule of the lords of nearby Foligno. Ultimately, it fell under the rule of the Papal States where it remained until the unification of Italy in 1861.
St. Clare of Montefalco, sometimes known as St. Clare of the Cross, was born in Montefalco and died there in 1308. She was canonized in 1881 by Pope Leo XIII.
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