... the old castle, risen perhaps between woods of oaks (in umbro vernacular cerque ) in the first Middle Ages it must have had an history. The name Cerqueto, can have had origin from Circus then transformed in Cercus for the circular form of the stately castle, according to an opinion recorded from the perugino historian Annibale Mariotti.

The historian Belforti thought that Cerquetum and Fractae filiorum Azzonises were two names of the same place since he wrote: "during back times and precisely in the century XIII (Cerqueto) was called Fractae filiorum Azzonis Perus". It is true however that from a "Privilege" of the emperor Ludovico in favor of the counts of Marsciano dated Rome 1328 are named castrum Cerqueti and Villa Fractae filiorum Azzonis Perus separately. The first documents putted into the archives in 1377, noticed by Mons. Ginos Francisci, speak of a pulchrum castrum Cerqueti and of the Villa Fratta (small fraction next to Cerqueto) whose inhabitants did a supplication to the Prior of Perugia to form a unique community; supplication that was accepted and that, the 16 of May of that year, united the two communities.

It is also historical the destruction of the castle of Cerqueto from the mercenary soldieries of Henry VIII of Luxemburg (1270-1313). Gone down in Italy for desire of the imprisoned pontiff in Avignone, that desired to have the war stopped between guelfi and ghibellini, he failed his mission. In the summer of 1313 the emperor went toward the confinements of the Kingdom in Naples but his consignment devastated fortitudes and castles.

In the 1411 Cerqueto was theater of the battle between the troops of the Count of Carrara and of Braccio; in the 1412 Cerqueto was exonerated from the payment of the taxes for the serious situation, either economic that structural, in which comes to be following passages of the armies of the King of Naples, Ladislao, and of those of Perugia. In 1413 the Perugia regained the castle of Cerqueto subtracting it to Braccio, which, however, will regain it in 1416.

In 1428, with the establishment of the Province's Captains, Cerqueto was assigned to the Door St. Pietro quarter. In 1503 they took lodging to Cerqueto the troops of the conspirators Baglioni to prevent the return of Giovan Paolo to Perugia.

In 1527 the army of the League, that for four months long remained in the Perugia district, it ransacked the castle of Cerqueto that in 1534 suffered the same fate with the pontiff troops commanded by Bosio Sforza to oppose the advance of Ridolfo Baglioni that, despite everything, he will succeed in conquering the dominion of Perugia. Finally in 1540, despite the cerquetanis had offered the keys of the castle to the advancing troops of the pontiff, the castle was attached again and plundered. The village crossed a period of poverty and abandonment for the suffered destructions, until Paul III for restoring the ancient fortification, didn't exempt it in 1546 to pay the excises, and the magistrates of Perugia allowed in 1546 to employ this money for the reconstruction of his walls.

The teachers of the varied works emerged, called out too and calling in apprentices from near and distant villages.

Remembering that in 1600 in Cerqueto was held the daily Lenten preaching, it can be understood what importance had the Christian community of this castle. In fact in a historical note of the provincial archivist of the umbrian capuchins of Assisi, Father Francis from Vicenza notices that the umbrian capuchin, St. Giuseppe da Leonessa (1556-1612) also called the "Saint Guastaballi", preaching in Lent in the castle of Cerqueto, he started an initial form of "hospitale" in which picked up and cured all of them wandering "itinerantis" toward Rome, where took place the jubilee (perhaps in 1600) and the same poor and invalidate inhabitants of the castle.

That hill from slopes mantled of silvery green of the secular olive trees, of dark green of the elms, of the oaks and the clearer one of the vineyards and of the gardens, it appeared to the peruginis like a splendid call, last and perhaps more beautiful than that hilly chain degrading till Marsciano, studded of villages. Today Cerqueto, as all the other village of the hill has become wealthy of gardens and villas that enjoy the enchantment of the underlying countries, crossed by the Nestore from west and the Tevere from north-east, with the ample valley that is stretched up to Todi.

The plague of 1478 already rages for five years and in the city it disappeared in the following year only. It was the seventh of the century and not even last: it followed, in fact. that of 1486 and that of 1494. The painting, placed in the second altar, on the right of the Church, is considered the first signed and dated work of Pietro of Cristoforo Vannucci, named The Perugino. The composition of St. Sebastiano, painted together with a San Rocco and a St. Pietro (?), of which only a part of the figures remains, included probably also a procession or groups of devotees, as does the Gnoli affirm (1923).

Among its historical figures, Cerqueto remembers too: Marcantonio di Francesco, teacher of lumber, who worked the benches and the backs of the main room of the monastery of St. Pietro in Perugia in 1508-1509. Giovan Tommaso Giglioli (1567-1923) Pope Paul V's friend, doctor in theology, philosophy and jurisprudence.

Giovanni Cerbioni, born in 1723, he was named in the 1764 manager of the Augusta library. During his direction it happened the confiscation of the conspicuous bookstore of the college of the suppressed Company of Jesus (1744). He died in Perugia the 6^th of June 1786. 

Monsignore Giulio Cicioni (1844-1923), he was founder of the museum of natural history natural, impassioned collector of plants, bugs, mineral and fossils. Although autodidactic he had the comprehension and the encouragement to continue in his work from the cardinal Pecci, then from pope Leone XIII, who after application of the Mons. Cicioni, founded near the seminar of Perugia a school of natural sciences.

 Cerqueto up to a few years ago was also known for the manufacture of the "giujaje", sold in the markets and in the fairs in Assisi, Bastia, Tavernelle, Marsciano, etc. they were some big bowl made by the interlacement of reeds to which the brambles was united for the hemming, used to sieve the seeds and the wheat.

Today Cerqueto is center of a vivacious cultural activity that goes from the Parish, to the "Pro-Loco", to the Musical Gang, founded in 1887, to the Chorale, to the Spring Group, to the Sport Associations.