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	HISTORY</div>
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	Fratte Rosa is perched on top of a hill, in a scenic setting amongst the most beautiful in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, placed rider among the middle valleys of Cesano and Metauro.</div>
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	The origin of the ancient Castrum Fractarum name probably refers to a defeat suffered here Hasdrubal, brother of the more famous Hannibal, the Carthaginian leader in the Second Punic War. More likely, however, the community of Fratte Rosa was formed by some survivors who escaped from the destruction wrought by the Visigoths under Alaric, of the nearby Roman city of Suasa, which stood near the present San Lorenzo in Campo.</div>
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	In the Middle Ages, the latest Fratte Rosa was a fortified town, capital of the so-called Ravignana, a real statelet dependent Classensi monks in Ravenna.</div>
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	Later he was a stronghold Fano guarding the territory of this city, awkward enclaves of the Church in the Duchy of Urbino, which is why both the Montefeltro, the Della Rovere has always tried to occupy it. In the municipal area is the ancient village of Torre San Marco, which has historical origins to the contemporary capital and how this was part of Ravignana, participating with ups and downs in the revolts against Fano. Later it belonged to the Duchy of Varano, in 1545 passed the employ of the Apostolic See.</div>
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	Today Fratte Rosa is a quiet hamlet, in addition to well-established companies in the production of furniture, footwear and clothing and metal carpentry, continues also the most famous and traditional processing of a black pottery luminescent (photos bass), unique in their kind for colors and shapes. And &#39;this a productive secular and therefore deeply rooted in the history of the country that does not want to forget it or letting it fall into disuse for the emergence of more modern materials.</div>
