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A benedictine abbey was first founded in 996 by Saint Dominic of Foligno. The existing abbey (Certosa in Italian means Abbey when managed by Cistercian Ordre ) was built in 1204 near the ruin of the previous one, but in a site more accessible, according to Pope Innocent III Reichgraf of Segni, who assigned the Abbey management up to the Carthusians. The abbey church of St. Bartholomew was consecrated in 1211. The name Trisulti derives from the Latin "Tres saltibus" which is the name by which was called a castle of the twelfth century run by Colonna Princes which dominated the three crossing ways (the "jump") which led into each versus Abruzzo, towards Rome and the Ciociaria. This castle is gone destroyed, there are only some ruins. Later the name was extended to all the zone in three appendices (tres saltibus) Mount Rotonaria. The complex over the centuries has been expanded and modified several times, and it's currently a mix up of medieval and baroque. In 1947 he was passed to the Cistercian Congregation of Casamari Abbey as administration.