Sirolo (up in the right side)
Sirolo is situated at 130 m up to the sea, in beautiful and panoramic position. The historical center conserves the structure of the ancient castle.
History signals
With the decline of the roman empire the Goths rush in
the Piceni lands, about at the end of their invasion in Italy, but they were contrasted by the byzantines.
They who had fought them, and finally won, were rewarded and,
as tradition says, Syrio had the lands on which
to construct the castle of Sirolo. It was the 550 p.C.
About at the year 1000 Sirolo was dominated by the counts Cortesi
that in the year 1225 subjected all their castles to Ancona exchanging with the registration to the nobility of Ancona. In the 1038 the counts donated the church of S.Pietro on the Conero mount, constructed perhaps some years before with to the cells of the monks, to the Abbot Guimezone of the Benedictines.
In the second half of 13th century natural events
destroyed a part of the castle of Sirolo that however remained
impregnable.
In fact in the 1354 the castle was besieged from the mercenary captain Fra' Morreale, sended from the cardinal Albornoz for appeasing
the intemperances of several cities against the papal power. I
The besiege had not success, and so the besiege of Malatesta in 1413.
Free from oppressors the castle had statutos of
self-government sin from the 1465 and such freedom lasted until the
end of the 17th century. Followed the papal and French domination until
the annexation to the italico reign of Napoleon. After the fallen of Napoleon, Sirolo returned under the papal dominion until the unit of Italy.
Before the year 1000 in the territory of Sirolo were accommodated many regiose communities: " the mount " become the mountain of the hermits looking for hush and solitudine, living in the coves in prayer and meditation. Later some monaks founded religious communities in the nearness of the churches of S.Pietro and S.Benedetto in the top of the Conero mount, living of elemosine and agricultural jobs. These churches were abandoned spontaneously and the friars were transferred elsewhere. The hermits of S.Maria Gonzaga occupied the church of S. Peter and the Camaldolesi occupied the other one. Between the two communities began small wars, ... and rolling stones until the fire of S.Pietro church. The gonzagans abandoned and the camaldolesi arranged in the church that was of avails again. At " Fonte d'Olio (Oil Source) " a community of Benedictines occupied the current Villa Carl (in which an oil-press of the 15th century it is still visible). At S. Erasmo, to the foot of the " vigne (vines) ", was an other small community (church and convent were destroyed) and in the current Villa Vetta Marina there was a numerous and the important community of the Franciscans that was visited from the same S.Francisco.
Urbani beach