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	The territory of Sant&#39;Agata Feltria the border between Marche and Romagna, is placed between the valleys of the rivers Savio and Marecchia. And &#39;one of the most characteristic towns of Montefeltro and offers a pleasant cultural and natural itineraries of great interest.</div>
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	The origins of Sant&#39;Agata Feltria date from the pre-Roman period, when in these places settled Umbrian tribes. Being a nation of farmers, herders and hunters, it was possible to their stabilization in the forests that covered the massive apenninico. E &#39;in the seventh century BC that we talk about a Sapinia tribes, made up of peoples Sarsinati and Solonati. These peoples formed separate municipalities, including the cities of famous Solonia and Sarsina.</div>
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	In Solonate territory it was including what is now the territory of the municipality of Sant&#39;Agata Feltria. In the invasions of the Goths, Solona was destroyed completely. To the seventeenth century A.D., following a landslide from Mount Ercole above Sant&#39;Agata Feltria, he pulled away a sandstone rock, on which at the dawn of the eighth century, was built a church dedicated to St. Agatha. At the foot of the rock, he was to build gradually, an agglomeration of houses, which in the beginning was the name Stone Sandstone, then to Sant&#39;Agata Feltria.Secondo a legend, the church was built in remembrance of St. Agatha, which along with St. Leo and San Marino, dated one day the Marecchia valley, to seek solitary places where settle down. Senonch &#39;both of quiet love, is to escape the temptations of the flesh, at some time they parted. Thus S. Marino climbed Mount Titano, S. Leone climbed Mount Felt and St. Agatha on Mount Perticara. But also from the peaks of these mountains Saints were attracted to exchange greetings and then S. Agata got to live in the crevices of a rock called &quot;Rock of the Wolf&quot; and even &quot;Stone Anellaria&quot;, which she called the first &quot;Rock of St. Agatha &quot;, and then for the many houses around the chapel,&quot; Pagus of St. Agatha &quot;. Old memories say, however, that the village of Sant&#39;Agata was founded by the Goths, after destroying a castle nearby. About the end of &#39;800, for ecclesiastical investiture, around the Sant&#39;Agata territory it was lorded by Ride Counts of Bertinoro, who held the fief of Sant&#39;Agata Feltria for nearly two centuries.</div>
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	In 1177, died the Earl rides without leaving children, the Rector of Sant&#39;Agata Feltria that included many castles and various places, was given by the Emperor Barbarossa to Antonio Conte Feltrio Montecopiolo. But this sale was opposed by the Holy See. In 1296 he was Lord of Sant&#39;Agata Feltria Guido Tiberti Petrella, these passed to Faggiolani, then in 1334 to Tarlati d&#39;Arezzo, who in 1335 were driven by Uguccione Faggiola (by Dante) which it was removed by Cardinal Egidio Albornoz. In 1430 Sant&#39;Agata Feltria was given in Vicariate to the Malatesta, who held it until 1463, when Federico da Montefeltro to regain the Holy See Rocca di Sant&#39;Agata Feltria and the castles of Upper Montefeltro. Thus Frederick was appointed Duke and Gonfaloniere of the Holy See, by raising his banner and his coat of arms in teh wall Fortresses and Castles in its domain.</div>
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	From this family was given in fief to Fregoso of Genoa who ruled without interruption until 1660. In the government followed one another: I &deg; Ottaviano Fregoso, Federico, Aurelio I, Octavian II, Horace and Aurelio II. The feud came to the Holy See, which came under the jurisdiction of the legation of Urbino. Napoleonic age was the capital of the department of the Rubicon. In the Risorgimento, after releasing most of the Marche and Romagna, just in Sant&#39;Agata Feltria they disbanded the Hunters of Montefeltro, depositing the weapons in the &quot;Teatro Angelo Mariani&quot;.</div>
