Monteroni was'200 half of a modest village of the county of Siena. Its development was linked to the medieval and the expansion of international investment Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, which bought land around Monteroni the beginning of this century. The most important building is a fortified flour mill that dates back to the early decades of the fourteenth century, built by the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala. Recently restored and recovered, the plant looks like an imposing structure made of brick tower, with the base on the east side, a game strings for the release of water from gora rear. In 1382 residents of a Monteroni advanced to the Republic for the place, then included in the Vicariate of Lucignano of Arbia, was established in vicarial autonomous, but the request was not accepted. Monteroni constituted a strategic position of some importance in the war of Corsican Siena. In 1554, during the war, was attacked and conquered by imperial troops, passing under the Florentine dominoes at the end of the war.
On the border of Crete Senesi, the territory of Monteroni is surrounded by numerous villages and buildings of great architectural interest: heading towards Buonconvento meets Lucignano of Arbia with the church of St. John the Baptist, which sixteenth of a Crucifixion Bartholomew Neroni, said " The Riccio. "

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