City of Monte Vidon Combatte

Via Leopardi, 1-0734 656 103

 

Tradition says that its name comes from a fact of battles, though little known, occurred in the Middle Ages:

The castle is perched on a hill and its name (“Vidone” by Guidone) brings to memory the Germanic feudalism. Legend has it that the local lord of nomeGuidone was contending with the lord of a castle near (Rocca Monte Varmine) and had requested help from brother named Conrad, in turn master of another castle restaurant nearby. The messenger delivered the message would help uttering the words “Run Corrado Guidone fights.” Later the name Guidone would turned into “Vidon”, and hence the name of the town becomes “Monte Vidon Fights”.

The “Liber lurium” of Fermo attests already in 1184 the presence of fights, sir Monte Guidone. Other ancient documents have Longinus of rights supposes with vast holdings between “Monte de Guidoni et perveniente to Holy Maria de Hill

Piazza Antonio Gramsci, 25-0734 632172

Located in the middle valley of Tenna its foundation is to be dated the year one thousand by the name of Castrum Malleani, named after its founder mercenary, all is documented in a notarial act dating back to a deed of 1293.

this village falls under the possessions Farfa and then until the fourteenth century. Under the dominance of Montegiorgio. After three years of Malatesta (1413-16) he became part of the possessions of Francesco Sforza until 1446.

Anque this small town suffered a stormy period in which he found himself at the center of struggles between factions, noble families, municipalities and after the restoration took place as for the years in the ‘700 in the Napoleonic period that saw the merged territories Montegiorno eventually returned under the administration of the nearby Fermo.

The features walls of the thirteenth century. Also here you are beautifully preserved and the door to Bora with a splendid Tower.

Central is the Church of St. Gregory the Great pievana patron saint, rebuilt in the eighteenth century. On the remains of an abbey complex farfense, here are admirable frescos attributed to Pagani.

Others are the beautiful stone churches located outside the center of different ages and all are features of these beautiful grounds, the cradle of important traditions and noble families that have marked with their wars architecture of these beautiful lands today beautifully set in a unique natural landscape, maintained and enhanced.

 

 

City of Lapedona

Piazza G. Leopardi, 1 to 0734 936 321

 

The territory that extends between Fermo and the river Aso just a short distance from the sea, port tracks, as the whole area Piceno, colonization and then of Roman civilization.

Perhaps the most remarkable testimony of what is expressed by the memorial stone of a local magistrate kept under the porch communal. During the Middle Ages Lombards and Monks Avellaniti founded several castles whose churches, Romanesque, are still well maintained. In the thirteenth century, the scattered settlements are abandoned and founded the present town, on the highest hill (mt. 264 above sea level) and near a large watchtower (also well preserved and transformed over time into unusual majestic bell tower of Collegiate Church of St. Lawrence).

Lapedona and its churches:

Parish church are kept inside, in addition to the venerated wooden statue of the patron S. Quirico protector of children, a painting attributed to Pietro Alamanno, two panels representing San Sebastiano and San Rocco, Madonna on the throne of the fourteenth century.

Church of St. Nicholas (XVII-XVIII century) in perfect and sober baroque style, has built five altars in gilded wood and marble, a wooden ceiling, damask and a beautiful altarpiece by Simone de Magistris, in addition to an organ Paci 1800.

Collegiate Church of St. Lawrence, where there are the pregievoli Baroque altars in gilded wood, a wooden crucifix of the XVI century and an organ Calido of 1700 recently restored and then recovered to concert activities.

Priory Church of SS. Giacomo and Quirico (XIV century) totally rebuilt in the nineteenth century, it houses important paintings of the fifteenth century.

Church of St. Mary of the Angels to Nivem in the castle village with frescoes of the fifteenth century, recently restored.

The municipality of Torre San Patrizio

Piazza Umberto I, 1-0734 510151

In a beautiful hilltop 225 meters we find this ancient village that was also part of the territories of the Marca Fermana.

The year of its foundation is unknown due to the lack of written historical sources exist, but if we exclude the archaeological finds as a result of excavations we can replace in these locations inhabited sites, and especially grave picena the seventh and sixth centuries . B.C. and other funerary finds of Roman imperial age here is that even here we confirm the presence of nuerosi peoples throughout the centuries from prehistoric times onwards.

 

The city center develops around St. Patrick’s Church today disappeared, its modern foundation is to be traced back in time dino year THOUSAND about when priccolo Turris Patritia center was built in the City, then he followed the administration Monks until 1258 and perhaps to them or to his Carolingian period we have the current name. In this same year Manfredi gave the small town to the nearby Fermo.

In 1414 it was besieged by the Dominion of Cesena Carlo Malatesta, but was little time that remained there under a possession, because already in 1416 the Fermana Brand returned to his possession.

These struggles between factions and municipalities and Lordships character actor rinasimentale this troubled period for all municipalities and towns of the territory.

At some point the people sought protection in the alliance with the Sforza family to escape from the dominance stop, but cone poor results.

After the papal possession the small town of Torre San Patrizio was destroyed and later rebuilt right from Fermani.

 

Today we can admire the Church of San Francesco a precious wooden crucifix of ‘500, the wooden art in vogue at the time and that was why a loaf now widely studied for its artistic importance and peculiarities second what is the style called Marche.

Inside, instead of the Church of Our Lady of the Roses is a fresco in 1446 by Pietro Alemano, a Madonna and Saints.

Valuable are the old city walls that distinguish all these ancient villages and villages style Medieval Hall and Torre San Patrizio also retains its dating back to 1300.

 

There you can ‘do not miss a visit to what is now become a public park, Villa Zara outside dall’aglomerato citizen.

Monte San Pietrangeli

Piazza Umberto I – 0734 969125

The first core of the town grew around the abbey founded in 1080 by the Benedictine monks of San Pietro Ferentillo (Terni).

In 1164 Frederick I donated it to the Canons of the Cathedral of Fermo. In the era of the struggles between Guelfi and Ghibellines he took refuge there the noble Florentine family of De Alleis whence primitive Latin name of S. Petri De Alleis. In 1443 the City Council, only in the Marches, resisted for more than a month siege of Francesco Sforza. It returned the orbit of Fermo, followed its vicissitudes.

Church of St. Francis already convent of Friars Minor by the quiet courtyard and the classic arcade. Baroque church from which rises a majestic bell tower. Inside keeps an altarpiece of the ‘500 attributed to Giuliano da Fano, some frescoes of popular art of the century and an organ Callido.

Palazzo dei Priori, we note in the town theater built the tower in the fifteenth base has a small Gothic chapel rich in frescoes depicting the Annunciation of Our Lady.

Town Hall retains Code parchment of municipal statutes dating back to 1482 written in Gothic minuscule (one of the few still in Italy); a precious icon of Mary of the late ‘500 and cineraria Roman family of Vezzi dating from the second century BC

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 56-0734 631443

The first human settlements in the territory of Grottazzolina date from the eighth century BC

Towards the middle of the tenth century A.D. was later built by the monks Farfensi the castle, the first settlement of the country, they called Montebello; shortly after he came under the domination of the Canons of the Cathedral of Fermo, which changed its name to “Cave of the Canons.” In 1208 Otto IV, elected emperor, granted to Azzo d’Estela March of Ancona. At his death, in 1217, ownership of the brand was confirmed by Pope Honorius III to his son Azzo VII (or Azzolino) who renamed the castle as “Cave Azzolina” that has remained unaltered.

 

From the fourteenth century Grottazzolina is under the rule of the city of Fermo. In 1407 a thousand infantry and 1,500 cavalry, under the command of Benedict Bishop of Montefeltro, occupied the county of Fermo to expel the Lord Ludovico Improved, nephew of Innocent VII. In 1465, after a period of relative quiet, for trivial reasons he lit a discord with the residents of Ponzano and Montegiberto. Reported to force peace by the senate stop, Grottazzolina was fortified by the Lord of Fermo Oliverotto Uffreducci, which will set up a cannon foundry one year before being made strangle Cesare Borgia.

 

Grottazzolina erected a free municipality:

For the first time in 1537 when Pier Luigi Farnese, by order of Pope Paul III, occupied the city of Fermo fining and stripping it of all rights. Since 1600 Grottazzolina was governed, like other 47 castles, from the town of Fermo through Podestà and Vicars. After the battle of Castelfidardo became part of the Kingdom of Italy and since December 1860, when Vittorio Emanuele II took off in Fermo province unifying it with that of Ascoli Piceno, Grottazzolina became autonomous.

 

Churches and castles:

Grottazzolina castle ruins of the medieval castle and town walls (XIII century). Considerable strain brick that was part of the fortified complex.

Church of St. John the Baptist displays a “Baptism of Jesus”, the canvas of the seventeenth century that recalls the Pomarancio and a processional cross of the fifteenth century. For its fine stucco church is cataloged as one of National Monuments.

Church of the Blessed Sacrament there are preserved a “Dinner of the Apostles” and other frescoes by Luigi Fontana, as well as a “Virgin and Child” in polychrome wood (1612).

City of Smerillo

Via Dante Alighieri, 1-0734 79124

For its scenic location is defined Smerillo “roof of the Marches”.

And ‘home to a community of monks before the presence farfense. He speaks as of the Castle at the end of 800 A.D. His first lords were the noble family of Boce from Smerillo from which descend brave warriors.

Buongiovanni in 1315, son of Boce from Smerillo and said “the Leader”, became bishop, administered the possessions Farfa which covered this territory also. From this family derived smerillesi warriors as Alberto Albertini, Albert II and Gualtieruccio, which widened their rule between the opposition of Guelphs and Ghibellines. In 1396, after a siege, they had the Fermo Smerillo. In 1409 the Earl of Carrara conquered and plundered the castle. With alternating success continued struggles with the nearby castles until the power of the Church not homologated also Smerillo.

 

City of Monte Rinaldo

Via Municipio, 9-0734 777121

 
To explain the origin of the name of the village is used to the feudal rule of Frankish period and, as a further confirmation, there is the fact that the patron of Monte Rinaldo, St. Leonard, came from a noble family away vassal of King Clovis .

 

Nearby there was a castle Bucchiano, that between the twelfth and fourteenth century. It was of great importance and was the subject of contention. Behind the walls of Monte Rinaldo, Ascoli up to the door, it was built in the late fourteenth century Pievania S. Leonardo and S. Flaviano. The archaeological area of ​​”La Cuma”, surrounded by beautiful agricultural landscape, is one of the most valid reasons to visit Monte Rinaldo. Here there is a sanctuary that can rightly be considered one of the most important monuments of the Hellenistic period in the entire region. It ignores, for now, is the deity to whom it was dedicated, is the city from which it depended.

Archaeological area (second century BC) The exploration, which began in 1957 and not yet over, has brought to light elements, partly reassembled, a porch along 66m. Many found objects of various kinds, such as: fixed wings, lamps, bronze statues and votive offerings related to the cult of the Goddess Cupra (for the Romans or Bona Bona Dea Mater). In the vicinity were found clay statues that adorned the pediment of the temple, traces of an inscription always referred to the worship of Jupiter. Research has shown parts with traces of fire dating back to the events of the Social War that was fought bitterly in soil Piceno.

Francavilla d’Ete

Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 34-0734 966131

 

At the origins the village of Francavilla d’Ete was made by Castle only equipped with six towers embattled “Guelph” with a single door, that what is now the clock, probably, if you look at the gap, it had to be drawbridge …

 

The current north gate, made from the floor of the town hall, was opened in 1775 under the name of Porta Nuova. The village life took place always neilimite Castle and, only when the time was propitious and safer life, the people came out and began to build in the streets. Thus arose the Borgo San Carlo and a row of buildings parallel to the south facade of the Town Hall and in continuation of the Palace of the Archbishops of Fermo, called “Palace of the Cardinal.”

Town Hall located in the area which was the highest court of the castle dates back to a distant era. In the southwest corner is set one of the six towers of the castle dating back to 1140. The palace was always the seat of the rulers of the country (priori gonfalonieri, mayors, mayor) and was severely damaged by the earthquake of 1943. With the war going on, the lack of brick material and cementing, were only made repairs and rebuilt the roof eliminating the third floor.

Public clock is located in a compartment above the door to the south of the main square (the ancient door of the Castle) topped by an iron frame that holds the two bells of the hours and quarters. Such embedding replaced in 1915 a beautiful tower sailing.

City of Servigliano

Piazza Roma, 2-0734 750 583

Servigliano, downtown just two centuries old, was born to the abandonment of the ancient castle of Curetta threatened by a large landslide.

Door Navarre is entitled to the patricians who led local insurgents the stop against the French occupation forces in late 1700. The country, until 1861 it was called Castel Clementino. Leaning against the walls, however, are the houses “popular” that two centuries ago were home craftsmen; below they had stables and workshops, dormitories above. A appezzano near Porta S. Spirit during the First World War it housed a concentration camp.

 

The castle walls, square, were designed by architect arms in the ‘700. The Church of St. Mary of the ancient floor, houses a statue of the Assumption (XV century), a crucifix of the ‘500 and a beautiful chorus elm.

City of Monte Giberto

Victory Square, from 1 to 0734 630 047

The town of Monte Giberto, already inhabited by the Piceni and Romans, it is believed has its origins in the eleventh century.

It was a possession of the abbots Farfensi. In the thirteenth century it passed under the rule of Fermo, becoming a “castle”. In the fourteenth century the Muni Without a city wall with four towers, of which there are still some sections, east and west where you can see almost intact one of the towers near the port building. In the eighteenth century it was renewed profoundly according to a characteristic compact plant, simple but elegant, which brings together the town in a square from which branches off the streets and alleys. With the annexation of the Marches to the Kingdom of Italy (1860), Monte Giberto became a municipality in the state unit.

Of great historical value is the organic heritage of the three churches, three organs of different authors of the most representative present in the Marche region: a Callido Gaetano, an Angel Morettini, a Vincenzo Paci. The concert starts itself as a viable tourist attraction.

 

 

City of Falerone

Piazza Concordia, 6-0734 710750

In the sixth century BC the faleronesi are already in history definitely jealous guardians of their land so as to resist in arms to the Roman conquest (269 BC). Always reconstructing the path of their history; faleronesi in the 90 a. C. were alongside the army led by italic Vidacilio, Lafrenio and Ventidius, scattering the Roman army led by Pompey Strabo. Under Augustus he was called Falerio Picenus and developed. It was destroyed in uncertain times, however, during the barbarian invasions, while remaining a bishopric until the fourth century after Christ. In the Middle Ages the land resources on the hill where he currently is the old town.

Historical Archives collected in the municipal office, including vestments, illuminated registers, a wooden statue of the sixteenth century dedicated to S. Fortunato and a “St. Francis receiving the stigmata”, painting attributed to Carlo da Camerino.

Church of S. Fortunato (started in 1277) has the polygonal apse and at the foot of the tower, an arc with terracotta decorations of 1440. Inside, a table of Vittore Crivelli “Madonna Adoring the Child two Angels”.

Church of St. Francis contains a painting of Domenico Malpiedi (early seventeenth century) depicting “St. Lucky with the Blessed Pellegrino and Giacomo “.

Church of St. John in the interior a “Holy Family and Saint John”, oil on canvas by Andrea de Magistris (seventeenth century).

Theatre of Faleria (first century BC.) Restored under Tiberius and decorated at the time of the Antonini.

City of Santa Vittoria in Matenano
Corso Matteotti, 13-0734 780111

The history of Santa Vittoria is entirely linked to the feud of the Imperial Abbey of Farfa who settled on the seat of the Vicar Matenano Abbey.

 

BACKGROUND

In 980 he resisted the shipment of Otto II who wanted steal the body of Santa Vittoria. That body considered miraculous gave the village its name when it was brought in 920. In the thirteenth century it became a free municipality. In 1242 Santa Vittoria, City Guelph, is defeated by the army of Frederick II, but with tough resistance regaining his freedom in 1248. Santa Vittoria, meanwhile, had taken on considerable importance in the area and on a vast territory. Albornoz had already made the seat of Presidiato Farfense.

The addition of the word “Matenano” (from the mountain of the same name) was after the unification of Italy with the Royal Decree of 1862.

 

City of Monterubbiano

Via Trento e Trieste, 1-0734 259 980

The origin of Monterubbiano is ancient: its territory was certainly inhabited in the late Paleolithic and Neolithic later in several Italian populations (Sicilians and Umbrians) finally was Piceno settlement.

Legend has it that in 269 BC It became a Roman colony and was given the name “Urbs Urbana” or “Urban Civitas” (Roman city).

At the fall of the Roman Empire it underwent various barbarian invasions. He slowly lifted to emerge around Mille as “Castrum Urbiani”, which would take its name, hypothesis, this, as opposed to one that would see the derivation of the name from “madder” (plant formerly widespread in the area). Castle Monterubbiano, although part of the Papal States, experienced the vicissitudes of the free communes. Its importance to the strategic position not lost on King Ladislas of Naples, Carlo Malatesta of Cesena and Ludovico Improved, ladies of Fermo, which if it fought from 1400 to 1433, when it fell under the rule of Francesco Sforza who extended and he fortified the perimeter of the castle walls (2 km). Papal dominance became real at the end of 1500, the period when Monterubbiano experienced a relative calm, until the confluence state unitary Italian (1860).

Campofilone

Piazza Umberto I – 0734 932951

Born on the ruins of a Roman settlement, it contains in its ancient castle walls and rich Benedictine abbey, dedicated to St. Bartholomew (patron of the city) whose origins date back to the eleventh century.

Campofilone today retains many features of crenellated walls and a polygonal tower. Not far from the castle walls is the church of Santa Maria, Badia also, of the fifteenth century. Erected a free city under the aegis Badiale, around the first half of the twelfth century, this castle of the third class was almost always under the control of the bishops from Fermo. Under the Napoleonic Government its territory was divided into two areas: that of St. Philip, which included the territory to the south and that of Campofilone, the historic center and the Aso valley.

Campofilone is a “common source monastic”, that is, in the twelfth and thirteenth century, the people of the countryside, to escape repeated raids of the barbarians and robbers, Abbot obtained permission to take refuge within the first circle of walls, under the protection of ‘Abbey and army Badiale.

 

The famous “macaroni”

Characterized by a very simple recipe and very special. The product comes as a set of thin wires as “angel hair”, are cut by hand with a sharp knife by people with particular experience and skills.

The macaroni Campofilone have a very old tradition: when the Marche was essentially a cuisine made of unique dishes, macaroni were already considered a noble dish, which was served on special occasions. Already in ‘400 are cited the “macaroni for purposes”. Over time it has become famous for the Festival that takes place in Fermo thousands of tourists every year in August.

 

The municipality of Sant’Elpidio a Mare

Piazza Matteotti, 8-0734 8196201

A long tradition traces its origins from the ashes of Cluana ancient Roman city at the mouth of the river Chienti, destroyed by the Goths in 410 AD.

The core dates back to the eleventh century and is set to flow

around what veins called “Castle Sant’Elpidio”, in the territory of one of the oldest and most powerful Benedictine abbeys of the Marches, or Holy Cross Chienti to the ninth century. A policy tends antifermana characterize and mark so bloody and tragic his story in the fourteenth century. Of note, in particular, the tremendous destruction in 1377 by the hand of the tyrant stop Rinaldo Monteverde that devastated the city almost totally destroying it and making horrendous massacre. Despite elpidiesi, from 1380, they rebuilt the city on the Colle della Pieve. In 1797 he was one of the few centers of Le Marche who tried to oppose the passage of the troops of General Franco-cisalpine Rusca. In 1828 Pope Leo XII raised the Castle of Sant ‘Elpidio to the rank of town.

Sant’Elpidio a Mare is an important footwear. The creativity, the high degree of specialization of workers and product quality have made famous the name of the town in Italy and abroad. To signal that is headquartered in Sant’Elpidio a Regional School Calzaturiera preparation staff in the local and regional industries.

Town of Belmonte Piceno
Piazza G. Leopardi, 6-0734 771100

 

Belmontesi intention of the twelfth century church of SS. Salvatore, on the hill adjacent to Santa Maria in Muris (then San Simon) was the landmark of the new castle which was given the name by the colonists immigrants from Belmonte Sabino in the abbey of Farfa.

 

In the Middle Ages the church was established at the headquarters office of the Mayor, later erected the house a gentleman Brunforte and others so that the square in front of the church is bordered by buildings constructed in the XV, XVIII and XX, buildings characteristic. The parish church was rebuilt also dependent on the fifteenth century by the Metropolitan Chapter of Fermo, with its coat of arms of the lamb lying on the book with seven seals and regent the cross of redemption.

 

Church of SS. Salvatore: (XII century) was the landmark of the new castle which was given the name by the colonists immigrants from Belmonte Sabino, near the Abbey of Farfa. In the Middle Ages the church was established at the headquarters office of the Mayor. The old church was small and low, but the archbishop Urban Parracioni created the space to extend the church. The run lasted seven years (1770-1776) and were eventually delivered the magnificent paintings by Filippo Ricci representing the titular saints.

 

“Small” shared by the “big” gastronomic qualities:

The typical dishes of the Marches, which vincisgrassi, noodles, rabbit stew, pork, offal, but everything seems to take more flavor. The slaughter of pigs born family: “ciauscoli”, loins and hams whose scents t’innebriano. Still not content, we can make life sweeter with damselfish, “pistringu” pizza with figs, and cicerchiata ciambellette. The productions of the area are: wine, also “cooked”, olive oil and corn meal (maize) stone-ground in the local mill.

 

Town of Rapagnano

Piazza Siccone, 3-0734 510404

Overlooking the valley of Tenna to 314 meters high still preserves the ancient walls.

Remains of pre-Roman and Roman settlements unearthed by archaeological excavations of the 80s in Contrada Saa Tiburcio will qualify the area as certainly inhabited in pre medieval.

The old castle dates back to a time prior to the year one thousand; was always this center also disputed between two municipalities opposed such Fermo Montegiorgio and in 1039 perhaps was donated to ‘Abbey Farfa up to enter definitively in the hands of the March 1244 Fermanal.

like other neighboring towns in 1400 the Rocca was occupied lords of Cesena Malatesta then return only sixteen years after soto administration of Fermo and finally under the rule of the Church.

Today the center is the result of a redevelopment eighteenth century occurred during the occupation prancese, before joining the then State Montegiorgese.

In addition to his castle walls of the fourteenth century. Which now retain three towers in a perfect state of conservation you can ‘visit the fifteenth-century Church of St. John the Baptist, patron saint of the town, then rebuilt in the’ 700 that still preserves the original bust of Pope John XVII was born here.

Always a rfacimento century are admirable architectural structures of the Town Hall architect arms and the Church Rural St. Columba as well as the Church of St. Rosalia.

Instead of earlier eras are the Church Rural St. Triburzio dated 1507 and that of St. Anthony of the seventeenth century. All custodians of the art treasures of the Marche and influences from the Adriatic to the north.

 

City of Montelparo

Via Roma, 51 to 0734 780 141

 

The first historical documents significant Piceni settlements starting dall’VII sec. B.C.

Do not miss the late imperial Roman findings. The name Montelparo is traced back to Medieval times, when it built a castle Elprando, leader Lombard. The old name was, presumably, Monte Elprando, from which is derived Montelparo. The castle then passed to the monks of Farfa, who consolidated and expanded.

In the thirteenth century. Montelparo it became a free municipality. It was Guelph and had important privileges and indulgences by various popes. Sixtus V, in creating the diocese of Montalto Marche, took off in Montelparo privileges acquired.

Montelparo must guarantee internal and external security, so in the thirteenth and fourteenth century many families of neighboring areas were allowed to live there permanently and the population reached 5,000 inhabitants.

 

Convent of St. Augustine began in 1686, with the church (1730), in which are preserved walnut choir and organ.

Church of St. Gregory the Great (1615) in which it is housed a beautiful painting depicting the “Madonna and Child”.

 

City of Porto Sant’Elpidio

Via Umberto I, 475 – 0734 9081

Despite being the youngest municipality in the Province of Ascoli Piceno, born in 1952 to detachment from that of Sant’Elpidio a Mare, the urban area is located where once flourished a remarkable civilization. The oldest existing document in the Marches, dated 883 AD :, is a “diploma” by Carlo Grosso and speaks of that port. Pliny in his “Natural History” is reminiscent of the trade relations between the Piceno and Illyria. Furnishings found in the tombs reveal picene inssediamenti human since the eighth century BC They will, then, that during the Roman troops of Hannibal, returning from the victory of Lake Trasimeno, they stopped in the area, so much so that we speak of a “field of Hannibal” between the Chienti and Tenna.

The Turkish threat is felt even from Porto Sant’Elpidio where, in 1620, was installed with a customs guards for the careful supervision of the coast.

This brings us to the years of the Risorgimento, the proclamation of the Roman Republic and the flight from the capital of Pius IX and his Secretary of State, Cardinal Thomas Bernetti, who took refuge in Porto Sant’Elpidio where he owned a house, but it was not good welcomed, and he had to resume guga. The same Pius IX returned to Sant’Elpidio, restored to power in 1857, followed in 1860 by Vittorio Emanuele II.

Annunziata church retains an “Annunciation” by Nicola Monti (seventeenth century). Inside, there is a great crib constant destination of visitors. Numerous villas, ancient and elegant building, have become open to the public park (Villa Amurri, Baruchello Villa, Villa Bernetti).

 

Monteleone di Fermo

Via Garibaldi, 9-0734 773521

 

The Monteleone is believed existed in ancient Faleria, or Falerio, but in two separate buildings forming a single municipality, the first largest, called Monte Legumes, the second with the name of Torre de ‘Casoli. In the year 533 Eutherius, King of the Lombards, occupied the old Faleria also won the first building of this town. Torre de ‘Casoli argued valiantly twelve years of siege commanded by such Leone. Subsequently, the municipality was called no more Torre de ‘Casoli, but Monteleone to leave, with that name, to posterity the memory of his valiant defender.

What to visit

Castle walls, some remains give an idea of ​​what was once to be the castle. Municipal building, entirely restored, houses a “Madonna and St. John” derived Crivelli (XV century).

Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, with bell tower consists of a hexagonal tower (sec. XIII-XIV) already part of the defense walls. Its elegant terracotta bill also has an interesting lintel paleo-Christian. Inside there is a precious silver cross signed by Bartolomeo from Montelparo (1524).

Crucifix Church or Our Lady of Mercy, built in 1526. It has Romanesque parts and guards inside the most interesting testimony of the painter Orfeo Presutti (1548): a fresco of the “Last Judgment” which covers an area of ​​21.45 square meters.

City of Altidona
Largo Municipal 1-0734 936353

The remote origins are testified by Roman ruins of Villa Montana, dating to the Punic Wars. In the early twentieth century, in the municipal area, the veins in the light of a statue of Aesculapius invoice Greek traced back to the third century BC. In the eleventh century it belonged (in the bronze doors of its Basilica, the twelfth century, the figure of Altidona) Abbey of Montecassino before moving to that of Farfa.

Its history is closely linked to that of Fermo, so much so that in 1507 was among the castles of the second degree. He met the looting of the Napoleonic government and in 1860 90% of voters voted for the annexation to Italy.

Castle (XV century) draws a historical fact of charming alleys overlooked by historical houses. The City Wall, well preserved, are the base to homes drawing real surprises to lovers of art and architecture.

Church of St. Mary and St. Ciriaco (eighteenth century) is a triptych of Cortese (1390), a beautiful altarpiece of the Pagans.

Comune di Porto San Giorgio

Via Vittorio Veneto, 5 – 0734 6801

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Located 5 m of alt . on the Adriatic coast between the mouths of the rivers Tenna and Ete Vivo. Active fishing port and popular seaside tourist resort , with footwear industries , wood, food ( pasta and oil mill ) building .

Built in the Middle Ages as the port city of Fermo preserves the quadrilateral turreted fortress built in the thirteenth century. (restored ), the eighteenth-century Palazzo Comunale, the Pelagallo villa , which belonged to Jerome Bonaparte , and the churches of Suffrage (XVII cent.) and St George (1840) . Rich and villas built on a regular plan with a beautiful promenade, is the modern part .

The ancient history of the seaside town , mentioned by classical authors such as Castellum Firmanorum , is closely linked to Fermo , of which , however, has been for centuries the natural outlet to the sea. Shown as Castel San Giorgionella medieval documents , in 1266 the municipality of Fermo ” rented it ” the jurisdiction of the castle and the Port of San Giorgio . The mayor Lorenzo Tiepolo, future doge of Venice, promoted maritime policy , greatly potentiated the port facilities, and also militarized the area with the construction of the port fortresses and castles .

 

City of Montegranaro

Piazza Mazzini, 1-0734 89791

Tradition has it boasts Roman origins and it handed down the name “Veregra”.

Between the valley of the Chienti and Tenna in the province of Fermo, in a hilly area it is this small urban center, typical of medieval architecture that characterizes all the villages of this vast territory.

They are not certified its ancient Roman origins, while we can safely say that the village of granarius was donated to the Abbey of Farfa in the ninth century by emperors Carolingian Louis the Pious and Lothair I and is since then that becomes a “reserve of wheat” of ‘ abbey.

From this period dates the construction of the Crypt of St. Hugh today below the Church of St. Philip and St. James the eighteenth-century period was probably built on a previous construction Benedictine and even an even earlier, perhaps a Roman building.

The Crypt has a barrel-vaulted nave with frescoes today still visible on the walls of the apse and this may suggest that a building was lavishly decorated. In the only remaining cycle is possibie admire a stylistic evolution painting featuring three centuries of history, with the first dating dating back to 1299, a second half of the ‘300 and a last cycle dating from 1500. To go erdute unfortunately were the wall paintings depicting a cycle of episodes from the life of Jesus and the saints Benedictines.

After the dominion of Farfa in Montegranaro you sussegui to the nearby town of Fermo, and only in the thirteenth became an independent municipality.

It is at this time that dated back to the ancient Franciscan church dedicated to the saint of Assisi with the adjoining convent outside the city walls, which then collapses and reconstructions were rebuilt in the ‘600, in the convent today houses the municipal library, and this took the name of Palazzo Franciscans.

Like every center of Brand Montegranaro also sees succession clashes between different factions and lords, from 1387 was dominated by Zeno family in Venice, then he was Still ally in the fight between Guelfi and Ghibellines, after which suffered like other neighboring towns of Marca domination by Francesco Sforza until 1445, only to see the return of the papacy to the Napoleonic domination and so on as the history tells us return to the Papal States and the Kingdom of Italy to the present day.

In 1777 he was a sanctuary dedicated to the worship of the Capuchin friar made Holy S.Serafino Montegranaro (1540-1607) that the hometown adopted as patron saint. To date, the body of the Franciscan saint is kept as Ascoli Piceno.

The ‘800 the city of Montegranaro developed what today is still his vocation and the main economic production and that the footwear industry.

In the early 1800s the characteristic “CHIOCHIERA” was the strip of cloth that was produced esvlusivamente by workers of the place, a tradition which now feeds an economic sector of a large scale throughout the area Fermo.

Besides church architecture it is worth a visit an ancient fortified mill dated before the year 1000 called the Tower, built in the plain of the river Chienti in the homonymous district.

NOT TO BE MISSED:

Church of SS. Philip and James: the crypt with frescoes (XIII century) dedicated to Saint Hugh, the first Christian church of the place. The figures, some of them detached from the walls and transferred to wooden support, feature episodes from the life of Christ.

Churches of SS. Francesco and Salvatore: with elegant Romanesque portals, it has only recently come to light in its entirety.

Footwear industry known throughout the world with its more than 600 companies and about 5,000 employees is the driving force of Montegranaro Marche footwear and one of the major footwear production systems worldwide. The high production and excellent manufacturing place Montegranaro which international center of the shoe.

 

Comune di Fermo

Via Mazzini, 4 – 0734 2841

www.comune.fermo.it

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Agricultural and commercial center (cereals, vines, olives, fruit , vegetables , fodder , livestock, beekeeping ) with the food, textile (cotton) , engineering , shoe . Holiday resort (Lido di Fermo , Marina Palmense ) .

Dominated by the Romanesque-Gothic cathedral ( 1227, and remodeled in the eighteenth century . ) And the magnificent panoramic square gyrfalcon (or round ), the city preserves the ruins of the theater , a large pool epuratoria of the century. A.D. , and various churches :

San Zeno, Romanesque (XII century . ) , St. Francis and St. Dominic, in the thirteenth century. , St. Augustine (XIII – XIV) , with the adjacent oratory of Santa Monica, Santa Maria del Carmine and St. Philip , Baroque .

Also noteworthy :

Tower of Matteucci (XIV cent.) the Town Hall, the Renaissance , with the monumental statue of Pope Sixtus V , Accursio Baldi (1590) ; the building of the University ( City Library ) , baroque, with the adjacent loggia of St. Roch ( 1528) ; the Apostolic Palace , the former residence of the papal governors of the sixteenth century . ( Museum) ; Palace Azzolino, of the sixteenth century . , and other private buildings .

Artistic and cultural center , Freeze has many educational institutes school . Rich Civic Art Gallery .

Ponzano di Fermo

Via Garibaldi, 58-0734 630108

 

It ‘a small town perched on a hill and still retains its medieval appearance.

Has three urban: the Capital City and the villages of Torchiaro and Capparuccia. It spans three hilly ridges between the rivers and streams: Tenna Ete Vivo, the Rivo (between Ponzano and Torchiaro), the Cosollo, the Posenzano.

Archaeological finds from the Roman period indicate the presence of an urban core since 300 AD. In the seventh century. settle the monks of Farfa, organize a curtis and build a church and dedicated it to St. Maria Mater Domini. The current building is to be traced back to the years 1128 – 1148. In the second half of the sixteenth century. starts being called also of St. Mark.

Castle Ponzano in 1416-1443 suffered devastation by the Malatesta and Alessandro Sforza. In 1570, Pope Pius V separates him from the jurisdiction of Fermo and makes it common for free, it is “ground” with the power to elect its own mayor acting as Praetor, authorizing it to impose fees and collections. The Bishop of Fermo is simultaneously appointed perpetual defender of “Terra di Ponzano”. On June 5, the Ponzanesi assembled in Parliament elect their first Podesta, for the second half of the year, Marco Attilio Albertini from Monterone. From this specific episode she was inspired the Historical “From Castle to City Free – 1570”) which is held in Ponzano on the last Sunday of July each year.

The 24 August 1862 takes its current name of Ponzano di Fermo. The name “Ponzano” appears in the list of common and castellli which the Card. Albornoz, Legate of the Pope to reorganize the Papal States in the Marche, 22 September 1355 addressed the invitation of convocation of Mayors or their representatives for visting Fermo to take oath of allegiance.

City of Petritoli

Piazza Mazzini, 21-0734 658141

The origins of Petritoli are lost in the mists of time.

The oldest traces us back to the era of the great Roman Empire:

the two urns of the I – II century, the milestone dating back to Emperor Magnentius and the ancient source in the district Papagnano speak of a community that has long inhabited the area surrounding the current center. Petritoli was founded by monks of Farfa in the tenth century with the name of Castel Rodolfo. Passed under Transarico Baron Saltareccia, was ceded to the Bishop of Fermo in 1055. Since 1198, he ruled with their own statutes until the conquest, in 1250, Frederick II, who sold it to Fermo, imperial ally. After ups and downs, which saw sieges and destruction, alternating with periods of relative autonomy with periods of submission to Fermo, under Napoleon held the title of Canton, participating actively in the subsequent uprisings.

Petritoli name derives from the merger of the three castles of Petrosa, Petrania and Petrollavia, but the etymology is controversial, as such names are referable to three villages and its streets were built outside the walls of the castle. Through three pointed arches nineteenth century, enclosed by two towers of the fifteenth century, leads to the old village. The former convent of the Poor Clares, now the Town Hall, in a room of the interior retains a wooden choir of the XVII century. The Civic Tower was built in 1800. In the main course is the twentieth century Palazzo Vitali Rosati, in Venetian Gothic style. Next is the Iris Theatre (1873-77), built and designed by Giuseppe Sabbatini. Outside the old town, it is the former convent of the Minor, now used as a health center, the adjacent church, with a coffered ceiling century octagonal stained with egg yolk tempera, contains an organ Callido.

 

City of Montefortino

Via Roma, 21 to 0736 859 101

The territory is an extraordinary document to read the economic history of the mountain Piceno.

Economy and pasture testified breadth of communal pastures of Castel Manardo and the widespread presence of “commonalities”, forms of organization linked to a community and collective use of resources. From the sixteenth century progresses agriculture cereal with the model of sharecropping farm. The tower houses, of which the oldest is dated 1504, bear witness to this appoderamento. Powerful in their trend and closed vertical, tower-houses consist of a ground floor used as a stable, a first floor where is the farm family and an attic where they breed pigeons, indispensable to the fertilization of the fund with the production of said fertilizer precisely “palombina”.

The generous mountain offers the possibility of collecting truffles, blacks and whites, mushrooms, agaricus mushrooms and simple.

Museum of the Mountain:

The town has significant heritage of cultural goods in the common area, but also a place dedicated to the conservation of works of art: the Art Gallery entitled Fortunato Duranti (1797-1864). The Duranti had a romantic personality bohemian painter and was refined collector of works of art arranged to donate to the City. The works of the Art Gallery cover a wide span, from Gothic to Neoclassical. The paintings and drawings of Fortunato Duranti, “artist of genius extravagant” as it appears in a fascinating self-portrait, are an original and substantial corpus.

City of Montefalcone

Via S. Pietro, 27 – +39 0734 79111

From the top of a steep rocky ridge that separates the valleys Aso and delTenna, Montefalcone with its unmistakable profile, rises up to make visible the village, for miles and miles. This panoramic viewpoint is characterized as one of the most beautiful natural balconies in the region.

High above the town, stands an old stone tower with a square base, the last bastion of the medieval castle built by Fermo during 1242. Even the urban structure reveals the imprint of this time although emerge numerous testimonies the following centuries. The road to Comunanza routed through a tunnel dug into the rock, dating back to 1833. On top of the country have been found numerous fossils of the Tertiary. Worth knowing is also the Garden Tronelli, built on a slope on the edge of the high cliff montefalconese. From this place opens a wide panorama that sweeps from the Maiella to the entire chain of Sibillini.

Among the natural features of the land flora particularly interesting they were classified and studied well over 33 species of wild orchids.

City of Montappone

Piazza Roma, 5-0734 760426

And ‘feudal castle in 1000 and the family feud Nobles.

In 1291 he is assigned to a ram of the family with the title of Brunforte diMarchesato. In 1355 it was destroyed by Gentile da Mogliano after a series of sieges and battles. Cardinal Albornoz prohibits the reconstruction. Only in 1471 the country is rebuilt on the permission of Cardinal Pietro Estaing with the bond to remain in Fermo. In 1827 gets a mayor, with jurisdiction over the neighboring Massa Fermana, who will continue his task until the unification of Italy.

Of artistic interest:

Oratory Church of SS. Sacramento with a fresco “Madonna with Child” of Pagani, the Romanesque doorway of the three hundred floors with spiral columns and the emblem of the Confraternity.

Church of St. Mary in the Castle (seventeenth century), whose altar is adorned with another “Madonna and Child” by Pomarancio, the work kept in the Parish Church of St. Mary and St. George, built on the remains of the Romanesque Madonna Villa. Make a notable relic of the Holy Cross embellished with stones and chisels, work of art Marche of the fifteenth century.

In the heart of the industry of hats:

The sign in the square overlooking the City is explicit: headdresses made of it even a museum. Montappone it is home.

Just this activity has brought wealth and prosperity in the territory. Artisan craft of old plots and patience replaced, only in recent times, by special machines of industry. Montappone hats, industrial or artisanal, soar to all countries of Europe.

City of Moresco

Piazza Castello, 15-0734 259983

The origins of Moorish little is known. The territory in Roman times stood important settlements and, in the Lombard period, “curtes and castrates” monastic and feudal. Likewise, little is known of the origin of the name, if it derives from a gentleman named Morico or the place name “Morro” which stands for “rocky ground and even swampy”.

A count, Theobald of Moorish, appears in the documents of the twelfth century and in the next century, the castle passed into ownership to the city of Fermo. It is removed from Frederick II and later by King Manfredi. 1266 will be the castle of Fermo until the unification of Italy, with a brief period during the Napoleonic period. In 1869, he lost the municipal autonomy and become fraction of Monterubbiano until, in 1910, will return to be autonomous.

The heptagonal tower (XII century), 25 meters high, dominates the Aso valley. Originally built as a watchtower and defense, he has undergone over the centuries many deep structural changes. Inside it was built a modern staircase, from above, it allows a wonderful view of the entire landscape of hills, landscapes and country Piceno. The Tower can be visited throughout the year.

City of Monsampietro Morico

Via Umberto I, 33-0734 773140

 

The castle was founded by Malugero Melo, son of the Dragon Norman Count of Apulia, under Pope Alexander II. The wife named Morica bore him three children, to whom the Count, in homage to his wife, he gave the name of Morico, hence the name of the country. In 1317 the territory was ceded in Fermo which followed almost all the same historical events.

Polygonal tower (XIV century) is located in the historical center, part of the original crenellated castle of the ‘400.

St Francis Church retains a “Deposition of Christ”, oil on canvas of the Venetian school of the seventeenth century and a processional cross of the XVI century.

St. Peter’s Church inside you can see: the triptych “Madonna and Child with St. Peter and St. Sebastian”, tempera on panel Art Marche (XV century); a “Saint Anthony”, oil on canvas by Francesco Fiorelli (seventeenth century); “Our Lady of Victory” (XVII century); a processional cross in silver gilt, interesting work of art Marche (XV century) and two reliquaries of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

St Paul’s Church (XIII century) in the elegant Romanesque lines.

Parish church in the hamlet of Sant’Elpidio Morico Sant’Elpidio. Keep an altarpiece that, in just three central panels is by Vittore Crivelli (1496), while the other panels, of mediocre local artist, were added in 1659; a “Virgin and Child” marble statue (XVII century) and a marble cross reliquary of art Marche (XV century).

City of Monte Vidon Corrado

Piazza Licini 6-0734 759348

 

Entering the old town, on the curve, we run into the first restored bastion of this fortified town. We park in Piazzale Marconi, leaving behind a torriene beheaded. Wide balcony opens on surrounding countries. We go by what must have been one of the old gates of Castelletto.

The center has collected and presents elegant civilian houses with terracotta decorations of the fifteenth century and remains of fortifications of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The religious buildings like the Church of San Vito which houses some paintings of the ‘700 attributed to A. Ricci and F. Foschi, are placed against the walls to the north, while those civilians are heading south. Several pleasant and arenas, such as’ a house of 1400.

Municipality of Massa Fermana

Via Garibaldi, 60-0734 760258

 

Ancient and glorious medieval castle belonging to the family of Brunforte, which began to lose fame and wealth in the fourteenth century for the continuous discords among the descendants of the same family. In 1327 he submitted to Fermo, who helped the people in Massa became a free municipality.

Massa Fermana can boast art of rare value, as a Crivelli, certainly the oldest work of the Venetian painter in the Marche.

Port Antonio is a unique testimony of the fourteenth-century Castle of Brunfonte. It ‘opened at the base of a tower with machicolations and battlements Ghibellines; flank two double loggias with four arches, one on the right, and three (partially occluded) those on the left.

Church of San Lorenzo retains polittivo Carlo Crivelli (signed and dated 1468) in five sections, three cusps and dais with four panels depicting the “Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Francis, Sylvester, Lorenzo and John the Baptist.” In the church there is also a tempera painting by Vittore Crivelli end of the fifteenth century “Madonna and Child, angels, saints and devotees.” In the sacristy a painting by Sebastiano Ghezzi.

Municipal Art Gallery The precious collection includes: a table of Vincenzo Pagani; a “Madonna in Glory and Saints” with dais During Nobili (1549); a “Resurrection” by Giovanni Andrea de Magistris (1542); “Madonna” paper mache polychrome Florentine school of the fifteenth century and more. Therein indeed also frescoes and reported on board the centuries XII-XV.

 

City of Monte Urano

Liberty Square, 2-0734 848 720

The history of this small town in the Marche goes hand in hand with that of the Abbey of Farfa, from which depended on many cities of the Marca Fermana in the Tenna Valley, the Benedictine monks will have many groups, foundations and development of these towns.

Its origin probably dates back to Roman times but the first documents that have survived that ensure the existence as a town date back to the year 1000.

Castrum Monturani was appointed in Chronicon Farfense and part of the estate of the Monks of the Abbey as their Curtisi des Fassinaria.
A separate chapter should be devoted to this powerful Abbey, in fact Farfa in his heyday period we had a number of cities in the Valley of the River Tenna including Fermo (as already mentioned) Sant’Elpidio a Mare, Torre San Patrizio, Rapagnano, Montegiorgio, grottazzolina, Belmonte Piceno and many others in the Aso Valley and also in the various centers piceni, but list them all would be too long.

The convent of Monte Urano was founded by Farfa but also their stories later centuries intersect with those of the Bishopric of Fermo as well as the succession of the possessions of the various centers.

Monte Urano in 1236 strengthens its city walls, according to a Papal Edict imposed for all the centers of Le Marche by Pope Honorius III and a few years after signing a pact of allegiance with the future Doge of Venice Ranieri Zeno possessor of some urban centers of the stop, so even the small town of Monte Urano then suffer the same fate of his Lord Fermo Municipality that in the press that Statuta Firmanorum (statutes citizens) of 1507 the distinguished title of Castle less.
In the fifteenth century. Were rebuilt and fortified its walls also because of his peasant struggles with the nearby town of Sant’Elpidio for which must intervene the authority of Pope Gregory XIII.
Then sacked from these, it was rebuilt by Francesco Sforza in 1445.
The historic center of the city today is surrounded by the old city walls with two gates, one with arched tower and clock, the second is dettala door Balvardo presenting an arch pointed arch.

Noteworthy are a Church of the Romanesque period dedicated to St. Mary Apparent with seventeenth-century portal and the neoclassical church of St. Michael the Archangel in which are kept a wooden crucifix of ‘700, a processional cross of the’ 500 and a Madonna painted by Luigi Fontana.

His current wealth lies in its strategic location a few steps from the Adriatic costre with all centers offering visitors many leisure and entertainment, and is immersed in the quiet countryside of the Marche where you can ‘enjoy a landscape of gentle hills and wonderful colors in all seasons of the year and the richness of the mountains near.

City of Pedaso

Piazza Roma, 47-0734 931319

The history of Pedaso has its roots in Roman times. Pedaso However, During the Middle Ages, stood the old castle on the hill overlooking the sea and close to the cliff called “Cupa”, it is only in the late eighteenth century, as a result of the continuing collapse of the old village, the town begins to develop along the sea bottom.

Pedaso has always had a relationship with the sea for centuries of mutual integration Represents almost the only source of employment for fishermen and still today is known for prelibatissime mussels. Pedasina The economy is now based Mainly on trade, services, and on summer tourism. The location, dominated by Mount Serrone and its Mediterranean maquis in the south and bordered by the mouth of the river Aso north, allowed the formation of a shingle beach only in the Marche and Suffered deep sea interspersed with rocks, ideal places for developing and flora fauna. Pedaso is anche a hub for the inner cores of the Aso Valley and has motorway junction.

The old town full of narrow streets with names like Simple Pear and Grape Lane, comes alive in the summer When events take place on the square or antique markets.

 

Montegiorgio

From the top of the country, commonly called “Pincio” you can enjoy a wide panorama that stretches from the Adriatic Sea to the Sibillini mountains, from Mount Conero to the Gran Sasso of Italy and, at night, you can see the myriad lights of the many surrounding countries . If you are lucky you can see the moon reflected on the Adriatic.

 
The foundation of this center on the hill of the middle valley of Tenna is of prehistoric origin, there have been numerous finds that testify of Roman settlements and piceni; then with the arrival of the ecclesiastical authorities the center, located in a strategic point, he joined the possessions of the Abbey Farfense that decrees certainly economic continuity but which then dictates the historical events over the centuries.

During the Medieval period the urban structure of the city, when the Benedictine monks of the abbey founded the convent and the present Church of St. Francis, developed as towns all around the ecclesiastical center welcoming the first inhabitants settled on a foundation of Monte Giorgio.
after being feud Farfense became a free municipality and as the center of each stop Ghibellino with a succession of fights and reconciliations between the Lords allied with neighboring Fermo.
An economic input gave it a Jewish community settled from Florence to Monte Giorgio, they established here their activities tanneries, the production and processing of wool and fabrics and so gave a new boost to the economy of the small town.

What to see:

His story then unites with the center of each of the stop and the March of Ancona, passed under papal rule until the Napoleonic era and the Risorgimento until the unification of Italy.
The city walls of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. form an almost triangular route that encompasses all the historical center, with the classic four-door access to every point of the compass.

The Town Hall is currently attached to the Church of St. Francis, named after the Saint of Assisi by Pope Sixtus V, yet it houses a monumental staircase by Panfilo Gentile; the aforementioned Church of S.Franceso thirteenth century. was built on the highest part of the town inside the walls, then it restored in the sixteenth century. in the style of today it preserves a chapel in Gothic style also inside a precious cycle of frescoes by Antonio Alberti from Ferrara dating from around 1425.

The Church of the Holy Savior is from the end of ‘300, previously demolished in 1827 to now preserves the original arched entrance portal. Fragments of painting and architecture of the ancient Augustinian church complex are today visible in the adjacent input today for use by offices.
In the town there is also a Municipal Theater named after the illustrious countryman Domenico Alaleona musician, obtained in the former municipality and today still preserves the ancient city tower; only seven years before the City acquistò the Church of St. Francis which today hosts in the former monastery.

Arco (XIV century) is all that remains of the portal of the church of San Salvatore, once attached to the convent of the Augustinians, now the post office and school. The church is also the sacristy with a beautiful fresco of the “Crucifixion”.

Church of St. John and St. Benedict its construction began in 1789. It contains works by Luigi Fontana, the “Birth of St. John the Baptist” (XVIII century) and an organ Morettini 1837.

Municipal Theatre built in 1878 on the area of ​​the Town Hall, is decorated inside with frescoes, stucco and gilding. Adjoining building is the town tower called “Torre de ‘Palazzu”.

Sparrows palace noble residence of the eighteenth century, houses the permanent exhibition of works by sculptor Gaetano Ursu as well as temporary exhibitions and cultural events. In summer it is the point of tourist reception.

 

City of Ortezzano

Piazza Umberto I, 4-0734 779 181

BLOSSOM VALLEY DELL’ASO
Archaeological findings show an ancient Roman presence. On the origins of the name are several hypotheses, among other things, that it may be the city of Urticinum, cited daPlinio in Naturalis Historia and destroyed by the Romans in the third century. B.C.

From the ninth to the thirteenth century it is part of the domain of Farfa and is equipped with fortifications; then enters the jurisdiction of Fermo, which will follow until the unification of Italy. The village is divided into two main groups, one of which was born the oldest feudal castle and the other around the church of St. Jerome, an area that was fortified in the fourteenth century.

The high pentagonal tower with battlements Ghibellines became a national symbol.

Carmine Church founded in 1725 by brothers Papetti, preserves woodcuts (Way of the Cross), a “Madonna del Carmine” Maratta. The same family can be attributed the construction of the Fonte da Bora (1608).

Church of Santa Maria del Soccorso, built in place of the disappearance marquee church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Preserves a fifteenth-century fresco, the painting “Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Girolamoe Sebastian, Francis and Augustine” performed by Vincenzo Pagani, still under the influence of the school crivellasca, a Way of the Cross in the Roman school and an organ of 1747 Master Attili of Ortezzano.

 

Church of St. Jerome dedicated to the patron saint, originally very small, it was rebuilt in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Remains of the Castle built around a watchtower (ninth century) placed on today’s home Malaspina.

City of Amandola
Piazza Risorgimento, 17-0736 84071

Amandola is located 550 meters s. L.M. on the left of the river Tenna between rolling green hills down towards the Adriatic (55 km.) and the eastern slopes of the Monti Sibillini which majestically dominate giving a picturesque location in the National Park of the same name.

The city’s history starts in the configuration of the urban development in the communal, while not lacking important evidence related to the Neolithic and especially the Roman period (bronze vase DINOS the V sec. BC and the Augustan period, both preserved the Museum of Ancona).

St. Augustine’s Church (Sanctuary of the Blessed Antonio) that presents a remarkable portal (sec. XIV) Marino Cedrino and the tower of MP Lombardo (1468).

Capuchin Monastery and Church of San Bernardino (sec. XV), which housed a valuable painting by Pietro di Cortona, now the Museum Brera.

Church of SS. Trinity inside with a wooden crucifix invoice Venetian and the roof supported by trusses.

St. Sebastian’s Church or the SS. Rosario, a gilded wooden altar of the Marche crafts and a fresco by Stefano Folchetti. The architectural complex of St. Francis hosts Museum of Farming, Paleontological Museum, Historical Archive, Town Library.

The pristine environment of the Sibillini National Park, which is surrounded Amandola, invites to interesting excursions along picturesque routes and nature trails marked.

Municipality of Montottone

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 34-0734 775135

Until the fifteenth century took the name of the Action Mons (Mount of Atto), then replaced the current one of Montottone.

 

WHAT TO SEE:

Church of Our Lady of Grace keeps above the altar a fresco of the fifteenth century, representing the “Virgin and Child Enthroned and Angels musicians.”

Former convent and Church of San Francesco located on a hill of Monti Sibillini, more than seven centuries, in baroque style, with stucco and frescoes in gold.

Friends century palace, with beautiful neoclassical facade, is considered one of the finest buildings of the stop.

Church of St. Peter the Apostle in baroque style was rebuilt in 1660. In the years 1940 to 1941 was completely restored; the Morettini Fermo decorated it with gold leaf, capitals, stucco and painting to giving an artistic and religious as a cathedral. Fine art and religion are the paintings of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian (patron of the village) and the organ in 1877.