The town of Monteleone Rocca Doria stands on the southern slope of a small limestone plateau sloping from north to south, dominating the entire upper Temo valley.
Its present topography may partly trace the medieval topography, planned by the Dorias (lords of this territory from the 12th century) with the late 13th-century encastellation of the area.
Its mighty fortified walls erected along the southern slope of the hill, the most accessible one, protected the entire village and the castle, located in the southwestern part.
This, in physical continuity with the structures found in the excavation area, developed from the castle, near which a quadrangular tower controlled the gateway still called “Porta Fontana.” It continued along the southern part of the plateau for more than eight hundred meters, interspersed with about 10 round towers, reaching the western part of the hill, where under the other quadrangular tower called “de s’istrìa” it closed its route leaning against the vertical and inaccessible natural walls of Mt.
