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Fabriano is a town and comune of Ancona province
Province of Ancona

The Province of Ancona is a Provinces of Italy in the Marche region of central Italy. Its capital is the city of Ancona. The province has an area of 1940 km? and a 2006 population of 465,906 in 49 comune , see Comunes of the Province of Ancona....
 in the Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 region of the Marche, at , at 325 m (1066 ft) above sea-level. It lies in the Esino valley 44 km (27 mi) upstream and SW of Jesi
Jesi

Jesi is a town and comune of the province of Ancona in the Marche, Italy....
; and 15 km ENE of Fossato di Vico
Fossato di Vico

Fossato di Vico is a town and comune of Umbria in the province of Perugia in Italy, , at 581 m above sea-level on the middle slopes of Mount Mutali....
 and 36 km (22 mi) E of Gubbio
Gubbio

Gubbio is a town and comune in the far northeastern part of the Italy province of Perugia It is located on the first slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennine Mountains....
 (both in Umbria
Umbria

Umbria is a Regions of Italy of central Italy. Its capital is Perugia. It has an area of 8,456 km? and about 900,000 inhabitants....
). According to the 2003 census, Fabriano's population was 30,300: its location on the main highway and rail line from Umbria to the Adriatic make it a mid-sized regional center in the Apennines
Apennine mountains

The Apennines or Apennine Mountains is a mountain range stretching 1000 km from the north to the south of Italy along its east coast, traversing the entire peninsula, and forming the backbone of the country....
.

iano appears to have been founded in the early Middle Ages by the inhabitants of a small Roman town 5 km (3 mi) south at Attiggio (Latin Attidium), of which some slight remains and inscriptions are extant.






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Fabriano is a town and comune of Ancona province
Province of Ancona

The Province of Ancona is a Provinces of Italy in the Marche region of central Italy. Its capital is the city of Ancona. The province has an area of 1940 km? and a 2006 population of 465,906 in 49 comune , see Comunes of the Province of Ancona....
 in the Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 region of the Marche, at , at 325 m (1066 ft) above sea-level. It lies in the Esino valley 44 km (27 mi) upstream and SW of Jesi
Jesi

Jesi is a town and comune of the province of Ancona in the Marche, Italy....
; and 15 km ENE of Fossato di Vico
Fossato di Vico

Fossato di Vico is a town and comune of Umbria in the province of Perugia in Italy, , at 581 m above sea-level on the middle slopes of Mount Mutali....
 and 36 km (22 mi) E of Gubbio
Gubbio

Gubbio is a town and comune in the far northeastern part of the Italy province of Perugia It is located on the first slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennine Mountains....
 (both in Umbria
Umbria

Umbria is a Regions of Italy of central Italy. Its capital is Perugia. It has an area of 8,456 km? and about 900,000 inhabitants....
). According to the 2003 census, Fabriano's population was 30,300: its location on the main highway and rail line from Umbria to the Adriatic make it a mid-sized regional center in the Apennines
Apennine mountains

The Apennines or Apennine Mountains is a mountain range stretching 1000 km from the north to the south of Italy along its east coast, traversing the entire peninsula, and forming the backbone of the country....
.

History

Fabriano appears to have been founded in the early Middle Ages by the inhabitants of a small Roman town 5 km (3 mi) south at Attiggio (Latin Attidium), of which some slight remains and inscriptions are extant. Fabriano itself was one of the earliest places in Europe to make high-quality paper
Paper

Paper is thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon or packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
 on an industrial scale, starting in the 13th century, and the town even today has a reputation for fine watermark
Watermark

----A watermark is a recognizable image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light , caused by thickness variations in the paper....
ed paper. This led to Fabriano's prosperity in the Late Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages

The Late Middle Ages is a term used by historians to describe history of Europe in the periodization of the 14th and 15th centuries . The Late Middle Ages were preceded by the High Middle Ages, and followed by the Early modern Europe ....
 and the Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
, and was also one of the factors that led to the establishment of nearby Foligno
Foligno

Foligno is an ancient town of Italy in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the Topino river where it leaves the Apennine Mountains and enters the wide plain of the Clitumnus river river system....
 in Umbria as the earliest printing center in Italy in the late 15th century.

Main sights

Fabriano's wealth and commitment to the fine arts in the late medieval period have left it with many monuments.

Churches

  • The Cathedral of St. Venantius (14th century, rebuilt in 1607-1617). From the Baroque restoration are the stucco decoration of the interior and the canvasses by Gregorio Preti
    Gregorio Preti

    Gregorio Preti was an Italy painter. He was the brother of the Naples painter Mattia Preti. There is a fresco by him in the church of San Carlo ai Catinari at Rome....
    , Salvator Rosa
    Salvator Rosa

    Salvatore Rosa was an Italy Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, active in Naples, Rome and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as an "unorthodox and extravagant" and a "perpetual rebel" proto-Romanticism....
    , Giovan Francesco Guerrieri, Giuseppe Puglia
    Giuseppe Puglia

    Giuseppe Puglia was an Italy painter, born in Rome. He was also known as Giuseppe del Bastaro. According to Baglioni, flourished chiefly during the pontificate of Urban VIII....
     and Orazio Gentileschi
    Orazio Gentileschi

    Orazio Lomi Gentileschi was an Italy Baroque painter, one of more important painters influenced by Caravaggio . He was the father of the painter Artemisia Gentileschi....
    . To the original Cathedral belong the polygonal apse, the cloister and the St. Lawrence Chapel, with frescoes from of Allegretto di Nuzio (c. 1360). Also important are the frescoes with histories of the Holy Cross by the Folignate
    Foligno

    Foligno is an ancient town of Italy in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the Topino river where it leaves the Apennine Mountains and enters the wide plain of the Clitumnus river river system....
     Giovanni di Corraduccio (1415).
  • San Domenico
  • Sts. Blaise and Romuald
  • Sant'Onofrio
  • St. Philip
  • The Benedictine Abbey
  • Sant'Agostino
  • St. Catherine
  • Collegiata of St. Nicholas
  • Santa Maria del Piangato
  • St. Benedict
  • Oratory of the Gonfalone


Other buildings

  • Palazzo del Podestà (1255) built in white stone from Vallemontagnana and subsequently modified several times. It has a characteristical bridge structure, a memory of the stream which once flew under it. The central arcade has frescoes from the 13th-14th centuries portraying warriors and an enigmatic Wheel of Fortune
    The Wheel of Fortune

    The Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortunae, is a concept in medieval and ancient philosophy referring to the capricious nature of destiny. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna , who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel - some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls....
     moved by a feminine figure.
  • Sturinalto Fountain (1285), designed by Jacopo di Grondolo, also author of the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia
    Perugia

    Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber river, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city symbol is the griffin, which can be seen in the form of plaques and statues on buildings around the city....
    .
  • Communal Palace (c. 1350, rebuilt in 1690). It was the residence of the Chiavelli family, lords of the city until 1435. In the court is a lapidarium with fragments of buildings of the ancient Roman cities of Attidium (Attiggio), Tuficum (Borgo Tufico) and Sentinum
    Sentinum

    [Image:Aion mosaic Glyptothek Munich W504 full.jpg|thumb|Mosaic floor depicting Aion and Tellus in richly-patterned framing Sentinum was an ancient town of le Marche, Italy, lying a kilometre to the east of the modern town of Sassoferrato, in the low ground; its ruins were identified in 1890 and published by T....
     (Sassoferrato
    Sassoferrato

    Sassoferrato is a town and comune of the province of Ancona in the Marche region of Italy....
    ).
  • The former Hospital of St. Mary of Good Jesus (1456)
  • Loggiato of St. Francis (c. 1450)
  • Vasari Portico (1316)
  • Museum of Paper


Famous natives of Fabriano

Gentile da Fabriano
Gentile da Fabriano

Gentile da Fabriano was an Italy painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style.Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche....
, 15th century painter, whose most famous work, an oil painting of the Epiphany, is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Fractions

Campodonico, Serradica, Cancelli, Melano, Marischio, San Donato, Bastia, Vallina, Cupo, Nebbiano, Collegiglioni, Attiggio, Collamato, Argignano, San Michele, Albacina, Borgo Tufico, Moscano, Poggio San Romualdo, San Giovanni, Castelletta, Vigne, S. Elia, Precicchie, Valleremita, Campodiegoli, Grotte, Marenella, Coccore, Cacciano.

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(Incorporates text from Bill Thayer's Gazetteer of Italy, by permission.)