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	HISTORY</div>
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	The origins of the town of Sassocorvaro not known precisely. The first written sources in which is mentioned the Monte Rotondo Castle site in the vicinity of the place where lies the village date back to 1061. Its center is developed in the following centuries until 1200. Period in which the small village of Castrum Saxi Corbari he was supported by a loyal local family Ghibellines.</div>
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	The origin of its name is owned by various hypotheses. Could come from &quot;Sasso nest of crows&quot;, animals that still lurk on the hill, from Corbarius, Knight Templar alleged founder of the village, or by Corbis Latin term meaning &quot;Cesta&quot;.</div>
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	During the Second World War in Sassocorvaro we are saved masterpieces from all over Italy who saw in Rocca Ubaldinesca safe place to put to good shelter of the cabinet Italian artistic heritage. They will be concentrated in Sassocorvaro, Urbino Carpegna and over 10,000 masterpieces of world art. A Sassocorvaro were filed more than 6500 works by becoming the Rock, in that dark period, the &quot;museum&quot; with the highest concentration in the world of artistic heritage. Operation Rescue was coordinated by Professor Pasquale Rotondi, then superintendent of cultural heritage in Urbino, and will remain secret until 1984, when through extensive research will bring to light the whole story.</div>
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	MONUMENTS</div>
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	THE ROCK OF SASSOCORVARO</div>
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	Famous is the Ubaldinesca Rocca which saw the intervention Sienese architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini. This fortress was the seat of the rescue of over 10,000 works of art from [7], Venice, Urbino, Pesaro, Fano, Ancona, Lagosta, Fabriano, Jesi, Osimo, Macerata, Fermo, Ascoli Piceno, (including the Storm Giorgione, the perfect City and many other works of famous artists including Raphael, Piero della Francesca, Carlo Crivelli, Titian, Lorenzo Lotto, Paolo Uccello, Andrea Mantegna) who were hidden in the years 1943-1944 by the Superintendent of fine arts Pesaro and Urbino, Pasquale Rotondi, to avoid that they were stolen by the Nazis fleeing to Germany.</div>
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	DAM</div>
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	A downstream of the town, near the village Mercatale, is an artificial lake created by the construction of a dam blocking the river Foglia. The dam was built in the fifties. The basin contains about 6 million cubic meters of water is used to irrigate the fields of cereal, fruit and vegetables, in favor of all the valley of the Leaf to the city of Pesaro. Around the lake (in winter is emptied to prevent it from filling with debris) are cool places and wooded, ideal for walks and picnics.</div>
