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The country of Montegrazie finds on one hill between the olive trees to 10 km. from the sea. The country is remained authentic; The small ways are cobbled to the ancient way, the "carruggi" in the shade, the niches and the pylons to the crossings, the gardens encircled you of the houses, the rain water pools with the old pulleys.
The country of Montegrosso made part of the common ones of Torrazza and Moltedo. In the 1871 it was detached from they and the successive year it changed the name in Montegrazie.
Later on, , always faithful to its Christian and civil tradition, this good population lived with great hard work of the assiduous job of the fields, with the expert cure of the olive trees and with some handicraft production.
The remained population hands on the secrets of the peasant culture:
the account by heart "l’epatta" for the semine
the use of the "stallatico" in the just dose for the garden
the secret of construction of "caselle", shelters of emergency covered with the slate.
Moreover, the country of Montegrazie is famous for its Sanctuary. The cult of the Virgin Mary is born from the story of a dumb child of Moltedo that was recovered from the Madonna that appeared . On the stone where the Madonna was put down it was erected the altar of the Sanctuary, goal of pilgrims.