Montorio nei Frentani, Province Campobasso, Molise, Italy

Founded in Lombard times, first it belonged to the county of Larino the in the Norman period (11th century) passed to the County of Loritello. Among the first feudal lords recorded in history were Vito Avalerio and Enrico Cena. The fiefdom passed then to the De Molisio in the 13th century, the Di Capua De Raho (16th century), Castelletti and finally Ceva Grimaldi. In the 19th and 20th centuries this center suffered most emigration of all the places in Molise: after 1866 most of them went to Argentina (some hundreds people) then after the First World War to the USA, and in the 1950's over 2,000 left for Canada, and other hundreds to Northern Italy and Europe.