The castle of Montalera is a 10th-century fortified castle located on a rise, overlooking Lake Trasimeno, near Panicale in the province of Perugia. The place-name Montalera is traced by eighteenth- to nineteenth-century scholars to a Greek mythological meaning: the mount of Hera, a mount that is dedicated, since Etruscan times, to Hera (Juno), the bride of Zeus (Jupiter) the king of Olympus.