MONTERON GRIFOLI sometimes MONTERON LO GRIFOLI, once MONTERONE Castelletto with arcipretura church (St. Lawrence) approximately one kilometre from S. Giovanni d'Asso located on the crest of a steep cliff cretosa in the hills that flank the valley dell'Asso.
It seems that this place originally bring the generic name of Monte. In the thirteenth century changed to form in Monterone, of which he was a native priest Jacopo di Guglielmino by Monterone, who in 1249 had the investiture of Arezzo proposed by the church of Pava. Finally assunze the current name of Monteron Grifoli from a distinguished family who had possession. Subsequently, the property passed to the family Bourgeois of Siena, who built a beautiful building located on the edge of an abyss.
The formwork of Monteron Grifoli rests above a kind of plinth covered with tufa somewhat relieved of crest of the hill beneath limestone.
. 1518, Etruscan urns,
Subscriptions sepulchral romaneed other ancient artefacts. Testimonials tending to show that this place should be well populated since ancient times. To ensure that the existence of three ancient churches in a territorially limited. Moreover, the naturalist Baldassarri found an underground aqueduct near Monteron Grifoli with calcareous concretions of unique structure.
The district Monterongrifoli was a community distinct from those Lucignano d'Asso, and S. Vergelle John until June 2, 1772 when they were grouped under the sole administration and name, S. Giovanni d'Asso.
The present church of St. Lorenzo Monterongrifoli obtained from the baptistery bishop of Pienza in 1594. It was rebuilt in the eighteenth century at the expense of Sienese noble Marcantonio Borghesi.

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