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==Main sights==
[[File:Stanza Aria Valmontone.JPG|thumb|250px|left|[[Mattia Preti]], ceiling fresco of Stanza dell'Aria, Palazzo Doria-Pamphilij.]]
*''Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj'' was originally a fortified castle, until the Barberini decided to replace it with a bigger fortress, and began the construction. When [[Camillo Pamphilj]] bought the fief, he wanted to create a sort of “ideal city”, a Città Panfilia (Pamphiljan Town), including the palace, the nearby church and the other buildings (stables, warehouses, house, etc.). For this reason he called in Valmontone many important artists. On the Piano Nobile (the second floor) there are some important frescoes, divided by themes: the four rooms of Elements, the four dedicated to the [[Continents]] (Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia), the Sala del Principe and two chapels. The ceiling frescoes were made between 1657 and the 1661 by [[Pier Francesco Mola]], [[Gaspard Dughet]], [[Guglielmo Cortese]], [[Francesco Cozza (painter)|Francesco Cozza]] and [[Mattia Preti]].
*Valmontone Archeological Museum, situated in the Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj. The ground floor houses a section which introduces the municipal area, the upper floor offers an introduction to the archeological sites and to related topics, through several media. Such topics include the coal miners' village in Colle Carbone, the "Colle dei Lepri" settlement, the "Mansio", the Thermal Baths and the "Colle Pelliccione" furnace.
*Collegiate Church of Santa Maria dell'Assunta, built on an ancient [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] church (12th century) with the same name, under Camillo Pamphilj, in the 17th century. The architect was [[Mattia de Rossi]], who rose to prominence under the mentorship of [[Bernini]]: although this situation, for the Colleggiata de Rossi was inspired by [[Sant'Agnese in Agone]], sited in [[Piazza Navona]] in Rome, which was edified by [[Borromini]]. The church has a façade composed by two bell towers and a curved colonnade with four Ionian columns. The plan is elliptic, with four chapels along each side, including numerous Baroque pictures; in front of the main entrance, between two other chapels, is the abside with the altar.
*''Fontana del Colle'', in Baroque style, is part of the original Prince Pamphilj project. It is composed by a pedestal with four round-shaped basins, one for each angle, decorated with lion’s heads. On the pedestal there is a column surmounted by the bronze statue of the Labicanus, a Roman warrior, symbol of Valmontone. This fountain was completely destroyed under the World War II bombardment, except one of the basins and the pedestal: the monument was rebuilt in 1968.
▲[[File:La Colleggiata, Valmontone.JPG|thumb|260px|Colleggiata church.]]
*The Church of ''Sant'Antonio'' was not bombed during World War II, and is the last medieval building of Valmontone. The real name of the church is Santa Maria delle Grazie and was erected in the 9th century: the construction is made with blocks of [[tuff]], with two closed windows, one of them decorated with a little arch. The interior is decorated with Baroque stuccoes, a [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Madonna]] with the Son and a [[Sant'Antonio Abate]], both painted by anonymous.
*Colle Sant'Angelo hill houses the cemetery of Valmontone and the convent of Sant’Angelo: built on the ruins of a Roman sanctuary, it was also nearly destroyed during the last war, and rebuilt immediately. It was erected in the 8th century by the [[Benedictine Order]], and includes some remains of the old monastery in the [[cloister]] and in the [[refectory]]: two bells, one of them of 1523, the other of 1744, are visible in the cloister.
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