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	Pesaro is the second largest city by population in the Marche region. With its province is the border with Emilia Romagna, from which it draws numerous characteristics (dialect, gastronomic, cultural).</div>
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	Pesaro (well Pisaurum from the Latin name of the river Leaf Pisaurus) was founded by the Romans in 184 BC as a colony on the land of the Piceni, the people who lived in the Marche region during the Iron Age.</div>
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	The oldest settlement area of ​​Pesaro is in fact the Piceno village of Novilara, placed on Colle Ardizio. This settlement is one of the oldest among the towns piceni and was among the few places, together with Numana and Ancona, close to the sea. The Novilara port of call used the mouth of a stream.</div>
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	In the fourth century BC, during the Celtic invasion of the Italian peninsula, the Gauls occupied the northern territories of the Piceni, and therefore the Pesaro area. When the Romans founded the colony of Pisaurum, the northern part of the Marche region, called by the Romans Gallicus ager, he was in fact inhabited by a mingled population of Piceni and Celtic. It was later colonized again during the second triumvirate by Octavian and Mark Antony, becoming during the Empire, castrum and economic center place on the Via Flaminia.</div>
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	Destroyed by Vitige in 539 A.D., it was rebuilt by Belisario and occupied from 545 to 553 by the Goths. After the fall of Rome, Pesaro, with Rimini, Fano, Senigallia and Ancona, he became one of the cities of the Pentapolis, under tight dependencies Exarchate of Ravenna Byzantine.</div>
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	In 752 it was taken by the Lombards, who held it until Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, not donated to the Papal States in 774 beginning the centuries-old papal rule over the city. But this rule was only nominal, since the city was governed since the Carolingian Empire by a representative.</div>
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	In the first half of the twelfth century, the thriving municipality followed the fate of the imperial part during the Italian companies of Frederick Barbarossa. He was later introduced the government mayoralty in 1182, but already at the end of the century was subject, like all the March of Ancona, the Marquard power to Annweiler, imperial vicar that, despite the very tough defeat to the army of Innocent III March 25, 1198 , to renounce its ambitions in the face of the Catholic Church to military action, once recovery sottrattigli territories. In the thirteenth century, it restored the town, passed at the behest of Pope Innocent III under the rule of the Este, 1210-1216.</div>
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	For a long time Ghibelline, during the reign of Frederick II, Holy Roman Empire, the Empire rebelled and joined the league of Guelph cities of Marca who were at war in 1259 with King Enzo. In the same year, Pesaro was coerced into submission by Manfred of Sicily, but at his death in 1266, he returned to the Church.</div>
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	In the Renaissance the Adriatic city saw a succession of lords: the Malatesta (1285-1445), Sforza (1445-1512) whose rule was interrupted by Cesare Borgia from 1500 to 1503 and later delivered by Pope Julius II to the Della Rovere ( 1513-1631) with whom he was related. The period of greatest cultural fervor was during the rule of the Della Rovere, who had chosen as headquarters of their Pesaro Duchy. In the first years of their government in the city it began the construction of new public and private buildings, and was begun the construction of a new and more secure walls, useful to defend themselves by sudden attacks from the sea. On the death of Francesco Maria II della Rovere in 1631, the Duchy came under papal rule that made Pesaro headquarters cardinal. At that time, the city was much smaller, the coast came to the current &quot;First square in May.&quot;</div>
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	In 1799, during the Napoleonic occupation, peasants and Sanfedists stormed the city and tearing rock for a few months to the garrison.</div>
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	On September 11, 1860 it was occupied by General Enrico Cialdini and annexed to the Italian State.</div>
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	monuments</div>
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	Palazzo Olivieri Machirelli</div>
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	The Ducal Palace, now the seat of the prefecture, was built by Alessandro Sforza in the second half of the fifteenth century. The facade consists of a portico of six arches supported by heavy pillars drafts and an upper floor with five windows crowned by coats of arms, festoons and putti. The right side (the only visible side), has bow gothic porch terminal and, upstairs, two large windows, similar to the front ones but without crowning</div>
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	The Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral was built on the remains of a late-Roman building in Romanesque times. The facade, in Romanesque-Gothic style, is unfinished: it has a simple ogival portal surmounted by a fillet of small arches. Very interesting heritage mosaic [4], which was also recently reported to the original splendor; It was restored in 2006</div>
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	Rocca Costanza, Opera fifteenth a square, reinforced by cylindrical towers, and surrounded by a wide moat, formerly used as a prison</div>
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	A few meters from the Palazzo Ducale stands the small house where Gioachino Rossini, flanked by two typical eighteenth-century workshops. Inside the house a museum was realized, Rossini&#39;s House, dedicated to the composer, consisting of a collection of posters, prints, portraits. Inside the museum it is also preserved her spinet</div>
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	The Imperial Villa, the San Bartolo hill, built in the fifteenth century and enlarged in the following century. The halls are decorated with authors of great importance such as Bronzino, Francesco Menzocchi, Raffaellino del Colle.</div>
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	bell civic</div>
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	Fontana del Porto &quot;La Foglietta&quot;</div>
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	Fontana Trebbio &quot;Red Source&quot;</div>
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	Fountain of the obelisk,</div>
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	Fountain in Piazza del Popolo,</div>
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	Ettore Ximenes, Giuseppe Garibaldi Monument (1891)</div>
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	Ettore Ferrari, Monument Terenzio Mamiani (1896)</div>
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	Memorial resistance,</div>
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	Porta Rimini - Mura Della Rovere,</div>
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	Portal of Pandolfo Collenuccio home,</div>
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	Portal of the Church of SS. Sacrament.</div>
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	Piazzale della Libert&agrave;</div>
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	Archeology</div>
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	Pesaro Roman aqueduct,</div>
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	Colombarone - Archaeological Area,</div>
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	The lucus Pisaurensis - The sacred wood Pesaro,</div>
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	The lucus Pisaurensis - images,</div>
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	Mosaics of the Cathedral,</div>
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	Piceno necropolis of Novilara.</div>
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	Source: Wikipedia</div>
