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OSIMO
Founded around the VII and
Vi century BC with the name Auximum to mean a widening
of the previous and more important Greek colony of Ancona.
For centuries, because of its strategic position on the top
of a hill between the valleys of the Musone and the Aspio,
Osimo was theatre
of fightings between Picen populations and Senonian
Galliums who had in Senigallia
theirs understood them.
It became Roman municipium in 270
a.C. and was fortified with high walls knowing a
period of maximum splendor becoming the city most important
of the region. After the end of Western Roman Empire it was
subject to the ivasions of the Goths and
was the center of the fightings between Ostrogoths
and Byzantines, enduring for 7 months the
besiege of famous general Belisario (539
AD).
With the advent of the Franks of Carl the
Great and the consequent end of the Longobard Reign, Osimo
became part of the Papal State but subsequently
it was proclamated the Comune (Municipality - 1190)
and later Osimo partecipated the the
Ghibelline movement on the side of Federico Barbarossa
and Federico II against the Church of Rome.
After the end of the Svevian Empire and the restoration of
the papal power, Osimo knew the lordship of the Malatesta
and Sforza. In the half of '400 Osimo and
Ancona clashed in the famous
“Battle of Pig” (1477).
From the town-walls and after a stop at Fonte Magna
(Source - I sec. BC), you can enter into Osimo through Porta
San Giacomo (Door), and going up there's the main monument
of Osimo: the Chatedral of S. Leopardo, erected
in the VIII century where it rose the Campidoglio and the
temple of Esculapio and Igea then rebuilt (XII cent.) in Romanesque
style.
Many are the monuments and the artistic pearls of this medieval
center. Among these we like to remember the Baptistry
(1200) near which it rises the Dyocesan Museum
of sacred art and the Sanctuary of S. Giuseppe from
Copertino (1247-1308).
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OSIMO
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