Fossombrone

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Fossombrone

Fossombrone is a town and comune
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
in the province of Pesaro e Urbino

Province of Pesaro e Urbino

The Province of Pesaro and Urbino is a Provinces of Italy in the Marche region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Pesaro. It also borders the state of San Marino....
(Marche, Italy

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....
).

ancient Roman colony of Forum Sempronii took its name from Gaius Sempronius Gracchus.

Near the Furlo Pass, during the Gothic War

Gothic War (535–552)

See Gothic War for the war on the Danube.The Gothic War was a war fought in Italian Peninsula and the adjoining regions of Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica from 535 until 554 between the forces of the Eastern Roman Empire and the forces of the Ostrogothic Kingdom....
, was fought (552) the battle of Taginae

Battle of Taginae

At the Battle of Taginae in June/July 552, the forces of the Byzantine Empire under Narses broke the power of the Ostrogoths in Italy, and paved the way for the complete Byzantine conquest of the Italian Peninsula....
, in which Totila

Totila

Totila was king of the Ostrogoths from 541 until his death. He waged the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire for the mastery of Italy. Most of the historical evidence for Totila consists of chronicles by the Byzantine historian Procopius, who accompanied the Byzantine general Belisarius during the Gothic War....
was overcome by the Byzantine

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
general, Narses

Narses

Narses was, with Belisarius, one of the great generals in the service of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I during the so-called "Reconquest" that took place during Justinian's reign....
.

Fossombrone was included in the Donation of Pippin, but remained subject to the Duchy of Spoleto

Duchy of Spoleto

The independent Duchy of Spoleto was a Lombards territory founded about 570 in central Italy by the Lombard dux Faroald I of Spoleto....
until 1198, when it passed under Papal rule.

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Province of Pesaro e Urbino

The Province of Pesaro and Urbino is a Provinces of Italy in the Marche region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Pesaro. It also borders the state of San Marino....
(Marche, Italy

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....
).

History

The ancient Roman colony of Forum Sempronii took its name from Gaius Sempronius Gracchus.

Near the Furlo Pass, during the Gothic War

Gothic War (535–552)

Battle of Taginae

Totila

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
general, Narses

Narses

Duchy of Spoleto

The independent Duchy of Spoleto was a Lombards territory founded about 570 in central Italy by the Lombard dux Faroald I of Spoleto....
until 1198, when it passed under Papal rule. The Malatesta

House of Malatesta

The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as other lands and towns in Romagna.Malatesta da Verucchio , a Guelphs leader, became podest? of Rimini in 1239 and made himself sole master of the city after the expulsion of the family's Ghibellines rivals, the Parcitati, in 1295....
sold it to the famous Federico III da Montefeltro, under whom the city flourished. Also positive for the city was the reign of the della Rovere

Della Rovere

Della Rovere is a noble historical family of Italy. Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV and his nephew Giuliano ....
dukes, who enlarged it (especially Francesco Maria II

Francesco Maria II della Rovere

File:Lucrezia d'Este.jpgFrancesco Maria II della Rovere was the last Duke of Urbino....
expanded the settlement in the lower area up to the Metauro

Metauro

The Metauro is a river of the Marche, central Italy. It rises in the Apennine Mountains and runs east for 110 km .Its source is located between the Alpe della Luna, Monte Nerone and Monte Catria; its name stems simply from the union of the two torrents Meta and Auro ....
river). In 1631 it returned to the Papal States, being annexed to Italy in 1860.

Main sights

The city and its environs abound in antiquities, especially inscriptions. Noteworthy remains are the statue of the god Vertumnus

Vertumnus

In Roman mythology, Vertumnus is the god of seasons, change and plant growth, as well as gardens and fruit trees. He could change his form at will; using this power, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses , he tricked Pomona into talking to him by disguising himself as an old woman and gaining entry to her orchard, then using a narrative w...
; the Furlo Pass

Furlo Pass

The Furlo Pass is a gorge on the ancient Roman road Via Flaminia in the Marche region of central Italy, where it passes near the Candigliano river, an affluence of the Metauro....
, constructed by the Emperor Vespasian to shorten the passage of that mountain; and the bridge of Trajan

Trajan

Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 98 until his death in 117. Born Marcus Ulpius Traianus into a nonpatrician family in the Hispania Baetica province , Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian, serving as a general in the Roman army along the Limes G...
(115) near Calmazzo, and that of Diocletian

Diocletian

Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus , born Diocles and commonly known as Diocletian , was Roman Emperor from November 20, 284 to May 1, 305....
(292), both over the Metaurus.

Other points of interests include:

Church of Sant'Agostino (14th century, enlarged in the 18th century). It has a hut-like facade with the coat of arms of the House of Malatesta
House of Malatesta

The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as other lands and towns in Romagna.Malatesta da Verucchio , a Guelphs leader, became podest? of Rimini in 1239 and made himself sole master of the city after the expulsion of the family's Ghibellines rivals, the Parcitati, in 1295....
. The interior hosues a canvas by Federico Zuccari
Federico Zuccari

Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italy Mannerism Painting and architect, active both in Italy and abroad....
.
Ducal Palace, attributed to Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Girolamo Genga
Girolamo Genga

Girolamo Genga was an Italian Painting and architect of the late Renaissance, Mannerism...
, and built for Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, brother of the Duke Guidobaldo II
Guidobaldo II della Rovere

Guidobaldo II della Rovere was an Italy condottiero, who was Duke of Urbino from 1539 until his death....
. Notable are the Renaissance court and the Cardinal's chapel.
The 16th century Corte Bassa, a residence of the Dukes of Urbino
Dukes of Urbino

The Duchy of Urbino was a sovereign state of northern Italy.The first lords of Urbino were the Montefeltro, who obtained the title of counts from Emperor Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1213....
. The Corte Bassa is instead from the 13th century, and was later renewed under Federico da Montefeltro with a notable Renaissance façade and pavement. The duke Guidobaldo I soujourned here frequently, and also died here.
Palazzo Comunale (Town Hall, 16th century).
Palazzo Vescovile ("Bishop's Palace", built from 1479). It has a Renaissance façade with a portico and a Crucifixion fresco attributed to Bartolomeo di Gentile (1493).
The Cathedral was almost entirely rebuilt in Neo-Classicist style by Cosimo Morelli
Cosimo Morelli

Cosimo Morelli, was an architect and one of the greatest exponents of the neoclassical architecture in Italy.His father, also an architect, studied under Giovanni Domenico Trifogli , who was considered to be one of the Comacini, whose works were much appreciated in northern Italy....
in 1776-1784, but has maintained some Renaissance works in the interior.
Ruins of the Rocca Malatestiana (13th-15th centuries).

Sports

FC Fossombrone
FC Fossombrone

A highly fashionable football club F.C. Fossombrone is an Italy Football located in Fossombrone. Dirk Bikkembergs, the Belgium fashion designer, sought to immerse himself more and more in the reality of the football life, and realised that the answer lay literally next door to the manufacturing site: the home ground of the local footba...
: famous for its total look and the uniform produced by Dirk Bikkembergs
Dirk Bikkembergs

Dirk Bikkembergs is a Belgium fashion designer....
, a Belgian
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
fashion designer.