| Mondolfo | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Marche | |
| Surface | 22.82 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 14.465 (01/01/2015 - Istat) | |
| Name inhabitants | Mondolfesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0721 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 61037 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | Santa Giustina | |
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Mondolfo is a city of the Region Marche.
To know
It is part of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
Geographical notes
The town is located on a hill not far from the Adriatic Sea, in the southern part of the province of Pesaro is Urbino, at the mouth of the Cesano river.
Going up the river, you will find the towns of Castelvecchio, Monte Porzio, San Filippo sul Cesano, San Michele al Fiume, San Lorenzo in Campo and Pergola. The territory formerly had the name of "Ravignana", with geographical capital Mondavio, as part of the possessions of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna. Further upstream is Serra Sant'Abbondio, at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana on the slopes of Mount Catria (1701 m), the "hump" of Dante's memory and the highest Apennine peak in the Province of Pesaro and Urbino.
Background
In an area inhabited since the Neolithic age, in the 6th century on the top of the hill there was a Byzantine castle, where the town was built around the year 1000.
To escape from the dangers of the valley floor, especially from the locality of San Gervasio, today in the southern outskirts of Mondolfo, where an important monastery once stood, of which the superb Church remains, which preserves the largest Ravvennate sarcophagus in the Marche in the crypt, the population he took refuge on the hill of Mondolfo. The Castle, characterized by the streets arranged in a fan shape along the degradation of the southern slope of the hill with noble palaces and rich churches, following a constant urban expansion was fortified with the raising of two mighty walls which, thanks to the intervention of military architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini in the fifteenth century, will crown the invincible fortress, then landed by the newly born Italy of the Savoy. A position strategically chosen for Mondolfo, at 144 m a.s.l., just two kilometers from the sea and, a little more from the Foce del Cesano, certainly not by chance. The Castle dominates the coast and the marine road that runs through it, it guards the mouth of the Cesano, controls access to the entire valley, watches over the nearby towns of San Costanzo and Stacciola. Here, from the Belvedere, towards the east, you can admire the Adriatic.
Mondolfo was a garrison of the coast to protect against possible Saracen landings, such as the time that - through the town still today marked by the ancient Church of S. Vittoria which can be glimpsed from the lookout in the grove on the crest of the hill to the north east - he had to cleverly repel an attack by Turks coming from the sea, who came down to Marotta, now a seaside resort, and intending to raid everything possible along the coast and the valley. Thus, the Bastia, a mighty quadrilateral tower guarding the delta, was built (around today's Marina Plan) as a greater defense of the Cesano mouth. In all likelihood, there was also a port, albeit secondary, for local traffic since Roman times. The boats received the goods that could flow from here from the many localities of the Cesano valley, crossed by the crossroads of the Strada Consolare Flaminia which, in Cagli, rejoined the main route towards Rome.
How to orient yourself
Mondolfo: full screen map.How to get
By plane
Ancona airport
By car
A14 Marotta-Mondolfo exit
Port of Ancona
On the train
Marotta-Mondolfo railway station on the Bologna-Ancona Adriatic line.
By bus
From the train station it is possible to use the public bus service to reach the center of Mondolfo and the nearby towns of the Cesano valley such as Pergola.
How to get around
What see
- Church of Santa Maria del Soccorso.
- 1 Convent and cloister of Sant'Agostino.
- 2 Insigne Collegiate Church of Santa Giustina.
- Church of San Giovanni Decollato.
- Convent of San Sebastiano.
- Abbey of San Gervasio.
- Sanctuary of the Madonna Delle Grotte.
- Castellane walls. The city walls of Mondolfo, remains of the ancient Byzantine and medieval fortification, are divided into two circles, one internal and the other more external.
- 3 Bastion of Sant'Anna. inside which there is the Martinian Garden
- Giraldi Della Rovere Palace.
- Peruzzi Palace.
- 4 Remembrance Park and War Memorial.
- Belvedere of the Castle.
- Great Source.
- civic Museum.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 [link not working]The cloister of Avis, Via Enrico Fermi, 4, ☎ 39 0721 959164.
Where stay
Safety
- 1 Carabinieri barracks.
How to keep in touch
Around
- Fano, a beautiful town on the shores of the Adriatic with its complex of Roman and medieval fortifications almost intact;
- Marotta, a seaside resort a few kilometers from Mondolfo and administratively dependent on the latter;
- Mondavio, a town in the Marche region included in the list of the most beautiful villages in Italy;
- Ostra, orange flag of the Italian Touring Club, is a characteristic medieval village existing since 1200 with the name of Montebodio;
Itineraries
- Via Carolingia - European itinerary that crosses the places traveled by the court of Charlemagne between the 8th and 9th centuries to travel from Aachen to Rome, where Pope Leo III crowned the Carolingian sovereign emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on Christmas night in the 19th century.
