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Jesi (or Iesi) 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....
 of the province of Ancona
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 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....
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Jesi (or Iesi) 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....
 of the province of Ancona
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 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

Now a quiet agricultural and commercial center in the floodplain on the left (north) bank of the Esino
Esino

The Esino is a river of c. 85 km in the Marche, central Italy. Its name could derive from the Latina Aesis, the ancient city of Jesi ....
 river before its mouth on the Adriatic, it was for several centuries the capital of a small independent city-state, and it retains a striking circuit of medieval walls, as well as a castle restored and extended by Baccio Pontelli
Baccio Pontelli

Baccio Pontelli was an Italy architect. Baccio is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo.Pontelli was born in Florence. Passing the phase of artistic formation with Giuliano da Maiano and Benedetto da Maiano in Florence, and influenced by Francesco di Giorgio Martini during the trip to Urbino , he was an in-layer in Florence and later in Urbino....
 in 1488.

Jesi was the site of the birth of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in 1195.

Main sights


  • The Cathedral (Duomo
    Duomo

    Duomo is a generic Italian language term for a cathedral church. The formal word for a church that is presently a cathedral is cattedrale; a Duomo may be either a present or a former cathedral ....
    ), built in the 13th-15th centuries. The façade and the Latin cross interior are modern.
  • Palazzo Balleani, an example of local Baroque architecture
    Baroque architecture

    Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
    , built from 1720 and designed by Francesco Ferruzzi. The façade has a characteristic blacony supported by four atlases
    Atlas (architecture)

    In the European architecture tradition an atlas is a support sculpted in the form of a man, which may take the place of a column, a pier or a pilaster....
     (1723). The interior has precious gilted stucco decoration.
  • The convent of San Floriano (18th century).
  • The 14th century walls, built following the line of the Roman ones. Six towers remain today.
  • Church of San Marco, just outside the historical centre. A Gothic architecture
    Gothic architecture

    Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
    , it was erected in the 13th century. The interior has a nave and two aisles, with a 14th century fresco of Rimini
    Rimini

    Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, near the coast between the rivers Marecchia and Ausa ....
    's school.
  • Palazzo della Signoria (late 15th century).
  • Palazzo Ricci, finished in 1547. The diamond-like bricks of the façade are inspired to famous Palazzo dei Diamanti
    Palazzo dei Diamanti

    Palazzo dei Diamanti is palace in Ferrara, northern Italy. It is one of the most famous palaces in Italy, as well one of the most influential Renaissance European architectures....
     in Ferrara
    Ferrara

    Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara.It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north....
    .
  • Teatro Pergolesi, built in 1790.
  • Palazzo Pianetti
    Palazzo Pianetti

    The Palazzo Pianetti in Jesi or Pianetti Tesei is a Rococo palace in the town of Jesi, Italy. Presently, it is owned by the town, and the palace and its adjacent building are used as a museum and exhibition site....
    , one of the most outstanding examples of Italian Rococo
    Rococo

    Rococo is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings....
     art. The wide façade has exactly one hundred windows, while the interior has a noteworthy giardino all'italiana. The palace houses city's civic art gallery, with a series of paintings by the Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto
    Lorenzo Lotto

    Lorenzo Lotto was a Northern Italy Painting draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits....
    .
  • The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie (15th century). The belltower is from the 17th century.
  • The 13th century church of San Nicolò. It has a Romanesque apse and a Gothic portal.


Natives of Jesi

  • Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
    Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

    Frederick II , of the House of Hohenstaufen dynasty, was an Kingdom of Italy pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212 and unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215....
  • Giancarlo Aquilanti
  • Giancarlo Falappa
    Giancarlo Falappa

    Giancarlo Falappa was a Italy motorcycle road racing from Jesi. He is remembered for his fearsome riding style.Falappa began his racing career in motocross before making the switch to road racing in 1988....
  • Virna Lisi
    Virna Lisi

    Virna Lisi is a Best Actress Award and C?sar Award awards-winning Italy film actress....
  • Roberto Mancini
    Roberto Mancini

    Roberto Mancini is an Italy football coach and former player. His last job was as head coach of F.C. Internazionale Milano in Serie A....
  • Valeria Moriconi
    Valeria Moriconi

    Valeria Moriconi was an Italian people actress who appeared both in movies and on theatre.Valeria was born in Jesi, in the Marche region of central Italy....
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italy composer, violinist and organ ....
  • Paolo Polidori
    Paolo Polidori

    Paolo Polidori was an Italy Roman Catholic Cardinal.Born in Jesi, Marche, he studied in the seminary of Perugia....
  • Rafael Sabatini
    Rafael Sabatini

    Rafael Sabatini was an Italy/United Kingdom writer of novels of romance novel and adventure novel....
  • Giovanna Trillini
    Giovanna Trillini

    Giovanna Trillini is an Italy foil fencing. She is a 4-time Olympic champion and she won an additional silver and 2 bronze medals in individual Olympic competitions....
  • Valentina Vezzali
    Valentina Vezzali

    Maria Valentina Vezzali is an Italian fencing who has won five Olympic Games gold medals in foil competitions.Vezzali is the first fencer in Olympic history to win three Individual Foil gold medals at three consecutive Olympics - 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics....


Sister cities

  • Cluj-Napoca
    Cluj-Napoca

    , until 1974 Cluj, is the second largest city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in north-western Transylvania. Geographically, it is roughly equally distant from Bucharest , Budapest and Belgrade ....
    , Romania
    Romania

    Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
  • Mayenne, France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Waiblingen
    Waiblingen

    Waiblingen is a town in the southwest of Germany, located in the center of the densely populated Stuttgart Region, directly neighboring Stuttgart....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....


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