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	Mondaino &#39;a small town, namely the case of a fortress from which there is an impressive and comprehensive natural panorama. Under the country are hidden rich and varied roads very mysterious history.</div>
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	Fortress and castle of Mondaino</div>
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	Strong impact, visible from the valley floor, with its grandeur of the past &#39;the Fortress Malatesta, valuable architecture fourteenth century. By a bull of Pope Sixtus IV states that the construction of the fort &#39;work of mondainesi. However, subsequent speeches, took the lords of Rimini, make it a typical construction Malatesta.</div>
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	Sigismondo Malatesta Pandolfo had built during his government, well 13 towers, the keep, the wide walls and underground walkways (carved into the tufa, in the male, ready to be used in case of siege as tanks or in the case of defeat as a safe escape route) discovered, the latter, in 1987. Inside the fortress can be admired today, the Madonna del Latte, beautiful fresco (XV sec.) Sweets Bernardino Castel Durante, and the Paleontological Museum the diatomite mondainese.</div>
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	The tripoli &#39;a sedimentary rock, formed over the course of millennia, through storage and fossilization, on the seabed, microscopic skeletons of diatoms and radiolarians. E &#39;for this reason that we can now find, set on the cliffs of this complex, specimens of fish and plants lived ten million years ago during the Miocene. Mondaino the field, among the most important in Italy, she returned as many as 21 different species of ittioliti, as well as shark teeth, sea urchins, shells and paleobotanists elements. In the museum there are also some purely Roman origin stems.</div>
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	Just outside the castle you can admire another masterpiece of this small town: the characteristic Piazza Maggiore, with its neoclassical portico by Francesco Cosci, the square who did attribute to Mondaino funny nickname of the country frying pan (in fact, the structure the clearing resembles this useful kitchen tool). The charming urban setting of Mondaino &#39;ideal stage for a number of medieval festivals like the Palio del Daino (the second half of August) which every year with different theme tournaments, conventions, exhibitions, parades all dedicated to the great moments of the past. In the historical center are also the Convent of the Poor Clares, with choir and the seventeenth century. Wooden crucifixes, and the parish church of San Michele Arcangelo, built, according to ancient documents, on the Roman temple of Diana ruins. Inside you can admire interesting canvases by G. Picchi (XV sec.), A Deposition by Pomarancio (XVI sec.) And three beautiful frontals decorated with flowers and fruit of the eighteenth century.</div>
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	The cultural and historical heritage is enriched by the contributions of fractions of today&#39;s common Mondaino. Examples are the ancient church of St. Apollinaris (VI sec.), Located just outside the walls, in the locality Pieggia, and the Monastery of St. Francis (XIII sec.), Located sull&#39;ameno Formosino hill, which has preserved intact the simple atmosphere of the Franciscan sites.</div>
