There was a lot of traffic on the road to Loreto, a small town some 20 kilometres south of Ancona. Here stands the Basilica of the Holy House of Mary, an important site for pilgrims. The infrastructure of the town was clearly created in an era when pilgrims still travelled…
In Antiquity, the charming town of Sant’Angelo in Vado was known as Tifernum Mataurense. The last part of the name referred to the position of the town along the river Metaurus (now the Metauro). Tifernum Mataurense became a municipium, a town associated with Rome, in the early first century BCE.…
We parked our car in the Viale della Repubblica and continued on foot to the historical centre of Fossombrone. During the Middle Ages the town was part of the Papal States. The Pope in Rome had appointed members of the Malatesta family from Rimini as rulers, but in 1445 Galeazzo…
Just outside the built-up area of Fossombrone lie the remains of the town to which Fossombrone owes its name: the Roman colony of Forum Sempronii.[1] The colony was founded along the Via Flaminia, the important road that connected Rome with the Adriatic coast. At Fanum Fortunae (Fano) it swung north,…