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	HISTORY</div>
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	Populated by piceni and, from the fourth century BC, by the Senones Gauls, in Roman times became an important staging post on the Via Flaminia. After the Roman Empire was annexed by the Byzantines in the so-called mountain Pentapoli, consisting of Cagli, Fossombrone, Gubbio, Jesi and Urbino; He suffered severe devastation during the greek-Gothic War (535-553) as well as the invasion of the Lombards and the conquest of the Franks; in 754 he was formally bestowed by Pepin the Patrimony of St. Peter, which was confirmed twenty years later by Charlemagne.</div>
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	During the Middle Ages, between ups and downs, it was ruled by the Montefeltro rulers of Urbino, to the devolution of the duchy to the pope to feudal law, with the end of the house. Invaded by the French towards the end of the eighteenth century, he returned to the Papal States until 1860, when the entire region voted the annexation to Piedmont. The name probably derives from the Latin AQUA L&iacute;nea, &#39;water of the battle&#39;, in memory of a clash occurred between the Goths and Byzantines near the town.</div>
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	The focus of the artistic heritage is represented not only by the archaeological site of the ancient Roman city, from the many religious buildings scattered in rural areas of the district, among them stand out the Romanesque abbey of San Vincenzo al Furlo, founded in the eighth century, however in later times, the Abbey of Santa Maria Nuova, built before the twelfth century, the shrine of Pelingo, the Petriccio church of Madonna (XIV century) and the sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Stelle (1495).</div>
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	MONUMENTS AND PLACES OF INTEREST</div>
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	Church of Saint Lucia</div>
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	In the village there is the parish church dedicated to Saint Lucia, an ancient foundation, but that over time has undergone several modifications and restorations. The interior consists of a nave; in the six alcoves that line the walls of it are the remains of the sixteenth-century frescoes. The last major restoration, dates from the late nineteenth century.</div>
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	Sanctuary of Pelingo</div>
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	Just beyond the town is the Sanctuary of the Furlo Pelingo, diocesan Marian shrine, which contains a venerated fresco of the Madonna and Child.</div>
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	Abbey San Vincenzo al Furlo</div>
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	San Vincenzo al Furlo is what remains of an ancient abbey of the VIII century where lived San Romualdo (1011) and St. Peter Damian (1042). The monastery remained independent until the eleventh century when he entered - with the abbeys and hermitages under him - in the direct influence of the nearby Fonte Avellana. The present church, in Romanesque style, was rebuilt in 1271 by Abbot Bonaventura. The interior of the building houses one of two primitive aisles, has a crypt with three naves with ancient capitals, and an altar of the ninth century, there are also remains of medieval frescoes in the right aisle and the presbytery, significantly higher level than the rest of the church . Near the church is a small Roman bridge. This abbey is used to accommodate, in the summer, art exhibitions with different themes every year.</div>
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	Villa Colombara</div>
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	In the locality of the municipality of Acqualagna archaeological excavations in 1995 and 1997, they have unearthed the remains of an ancient Roman farm of the second century BC with a large colonnaded courtyard where they had arranged the living quarters and processing of agricultural products. The excavations showed that the farm was rebuilt in the early imperial period partially overlaps the first. The remains are stored at Acqualagna Antiquarium Pitinum Mergens.</div>
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	The Pietralata Castle</div>
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	It is located on the southern slope of Mount Pietralata; it is an ancient building dating back to the eleventh century, made from the ruins fairly well preserved of the great wall, an own church, the ruins of the settlement center adjacent to said male and Casa Canonica connected to the church by a particular passage suspended.</div>
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	Source: Wikipedia</div>
