Castelfidardo

You departs from the Door of the I will Cancel. Through this door you/he/she could be accessed the terziere of the I will Cancel, the tallest part in the castle. Today two pillars of the door stay, restored, and, from the pillar of right toward Door Marina, a line of the ancient medieval boundaries. The today's scalettes didn't exist and the alert one was steep rather to guarantee a great defense.

Following the ancient line of boundaries him reaches the Door Victoria, said Door Marina, because it looks to East toward the Adriatic Sea. The project of the door was introduced by Michelangelo Fontana in 1767. At the beginning he was called Door S. Anthony.
Near the Door the rise "Gardens of Door Marina", for a long time point of meeting for the Fidardensis. From here it is possible to admire a splendid panorama and the magnificent park that it entertains the National Monument of the Brands, erect in memory of the historian 1860 Castelfidardo battle.

Crossing the Door Victoria he enters the heart of the city. On the left we meet street Garibaldi that finishes with a characteristic piazzetta in the tallest point in the city. Returning on our footsteps, he proceeds along the Course XVIII Settembre and it is reached the Plaza of the Republic in the terziere Varugliano. Here it leans out the Town Building: it is the ancient Building Priorale, that already in the centuries XIV and XV it was the neuralgic center of the country. On the façade of the building they are mails the unities of length "Arm" and "half arm", observable still today.
The Town hall is provided of bell tower with merlature of sign guelfo, where they have also put the clock (purchased in 1775) and the going up again bell to 1803. The building was restored by the foundations in 1780. In the undergrounds there were the jail and the room of the punishments. Always to the inside eight hundred three decorated ceilings can be admired, recently brought to ancient shine. To the last floor we find the Saloon of the Coats of arms. To notice painter Gallucci's picture that faithfully reproduces the last phase of the famous Battle of Castelfidardo.

In the plain basement of the Town Building the Museum of the Accordion is found, that picks up documents and finds related to the history of this musical tool. It wants to make free to the maestranzes and the many entrepreneurs, that have contributed to culturally transform this zone of the Brands with their work, creating an unthinkable wealth for an economy that for centuries she had been tied up to the agriculture. The collection of 300 tools coming from 22 different countries is placed side by side from a typical artisan shop of the years 30 of the two centuries ago.

In front of the Town Building the Collegiate Church rises, devoted to S. Stephen Protomartire. Its origins make him go up again to an ancient parish, risen around the year Thousand. The first certain news of a restructuring of the Church is of 1491. Above the crypt and on the foundations of the old church an ampler was built in 1571 of it.
The actual plant goes up again to 1770.

Leaving himself to the shoulders the Plaza is reached Building Mordini. It consists of two adjoining structures. In one the Museum of the Risorgimento, the Town Library and the Historical file are entertained. The second, thought as I center cultural, you has recently been restructured together with the external court. It entertains, besides, a show on the great voices fidardensi of the melodrama: Mario Binci and Africo Baldelli.

Even more before it is possible to admire the Church of St. Francis, today turned to Auditorium. The first church built by the monks inside the country goes up again to 1292, but that today's has been built in the XVIII century, from a project of the anconetano Francis Maria Ciaffaroni, follower of the Vanvitelli.

Just in front of the Auditorium the chiesetta S rises. Maria of the Mercy. They have news since 1465. Anciently it was the oratory of the Brotherhood of the Mercy, that dealt him with the care of the patients. Particularly valuable it is the floor in cooked tile to 1500 geometric figures. The principal façade is of dimensions rather reduced, but at the same time very harmonic.

Proceeding himself enters the terziere Montebello and they is reached the Monastery and the adjacent church of St. Benedict. The monastery goes up again to the XVI century. Since then and until almost to our days, the Benedictine nuns devoted him to the claustral life and the education of the young girl.

It sets out away finally us toward the exit from the historical center through the street of the ex hospital and the alert one of the Mucchia, rich of alleys and of characteristic foreshortenings. It sees us the Door of the Sun. The tradition wants that from this door has transited in 1860 the bersaglieris of the General Lamarmora that had then to encounter in the place Montoro with the troops pontificie. For this today the official denomination of the door is Handed some Bersaglieris.