PESMONS was the name of Piedimonte when it was a Roman city , Oppidum Pesmons , or Oppidum Pedemontis , throughout the Middle Ages . In short, in every era its name has remained faithful to the peculiar location at the foot of Monte Cairo. During the Second World War the city was completely razed to the ground and therefore have vanished almost completely the vestiges of the past .
However, numerous archaeological finds, mainly epigraphic , have been found on its territory , allowing some reconstruction of her past. Built by the Romans in the number of fortified towns along the Via Latina , Oppidum Pesmons had a certain resonance in the first half of the fourth century AD S.Amasio when , after a stay on the heights of Arpino where he had fled after the expulsion from Sora , settled there for a time , working miracles through hard work and the final passage of those people to Christianity .
It was not accidental that the Holy chose as their hermitage a cave near the temple dedicated to the god Pan.
Following the mass conversions of the temple became a place of Christian worship, then finally transformed into the Church of Sant'Amasio , which still dominates the town from the top of the hill . In the Middle Ages it belonged to the Counts of Aquino who , in 1061 , sold it to the Abbey of Montecassino.
The name was then extended in Piedimonte of the Abbey . In 1140 it was occupied by a perioro by the men of Roger II of Sicily, but recovered quickly between the domains of the Monastery . Probably dates back to the thirteenth century castle Piedimonte that exist today in the historical memory . Several times in fact destroyed in the past was literally blown away by the last bombing in 1943/44 . Today, on the hill that housed it , the few remains have been beautifully restored and incorporated into a kind of memorial shrine .
The thirteenth century. are also the church of Santa Maria Assunta, the Church of St. Nicholas and the one already mentioned in Sant'Amasio . Like other neighboring castles passed to the Angevins Aragonese, then again at Monte Cassino and finally the Bourbons until the unification of Italy , when in 1863 its name changed permanently to Piedimonte San Germano , since the nearby town called San Germano was instead called Cassino. The small agricultural town post unitary , razed to the ground by the terrible bombing during the Second World War , he returned to flourish in the early seventies with the establishment of the Fiat plant in the plain below , so that today coexist Piedimonte one high and one low.