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	The unmistakable outline of the ancient village of Saludecio stands on a gentle hill overlooking the Conca and invites tourists to visit its alleys, streets and palaces, to discover real hidden treasures.</div>
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	The country, Malatesta stronghold, &#39;the center of a ring of defensive castles, Rimini last bulwark against neighboring Montefeltro of Urbino. The structure of the center still reveals its medieval structure, with the maze of narrow streets enclosed by walls and monumental gateways: Marine port and mountain door, for the defense of the sea and inland.</div>
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	Probable fundus Roman, the town&#39;s name derives from the adjective Saludecio saluticius connected to it or, perhaps, according to a hypothesis that seems, however, an imaginative reconstruction Saludecese humanist Publio Francesco Modesti, from salus Decii in reference to a famous Roman character ( some say even the emperor Decius) found that health and salvation of this pleasant hill. Third hypothesis on the origin of this curious name &#39;that which connects it to St. Laudicio, probably a martyr of the Eastern Church, which was dedicated to the ancient parish church quoted from a 1144 papal bull: &quot;plebem sancti Leoditii&quot;. Subsequent documents then speak of &quot;plebs Sancti Laudicii&quot;, &quot;Castrum Lauditii&quot; and &quot;San Lodezzo&quot;.</div>
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	&#39;Actually possible that this holy Laodicio, that you do not find mention in any list of the Sanctorum Library, is to be connected to the figure of the bishop of the Church of Ravenna Eleukadio. Although never been canonized saint was hailed by the faithful and revered as such. The non-formalization of the cult may have somewhat eased the distortion of the name, he came to us in the form Laudicio. Even Giovanni Boccaccio mentions our country in a short story of his Decameron (III, 7), where the protagonist of the novel, Tedaldo Champs, using the pseudonym of Philip from San Lodeccio.</div>
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	The centuries XIII and XIV see an alternation of power on these lands, between the Papal State and the rule of the Malatesta of Rimini. Then, following the attempted revolt of Ondedei Saludecio (1336) against Ferrantino, Malatestino and Guido Malatesta (failed because of a betrayal) in Saludecio &#39;sets the total dependence of the Malatesta dynasty. The fifteenth century, although it had opened in the name of Humanae litterae and serenity, with the peaceful stay in Montefiore Pope Gregory XII, sees then grow and develop the project of the Montefeltro of Urbino over the lands of Romagna. The already fragile balance collapsed in 1462 when, as a result of national policies ranging issues, Federico da Montefeltro deals Saludecio taking it to Sigismondo Malatesta, and the return to the state of the Church.</div>
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	In 1504, after passing through the hands of the Duke Valentino Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, Saludecio &#39;submissive to the government of Venice, but for a short time, since already in 1508 the Venetians return the land to the Church. The sixteenth century is a sort of settling of the country in the next century will see, however, a great economic and cultural growth, as witnessed by the work of many artists working in the area (most notably Guido Canacci). Even in the eighteenth century they open important projects, among which the most interesting, &#39;the parish church of San Biagio, begun in 1794 and completed in 1800. A fine example of neoclassical architecture, designed by the architect Giuseppe Achilli from Cesena, was strongly supported by Saludecese pastor despite the particularly difficult period, which coincides with the years of the Napoleonic descent.</div>
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	L &#39;nineteenth century, therefore, opens with splendor and continues with the same content, so that Saludecio, administrative capital can rightly be considered in relation to that period, a small capital. The ruling class (landed gentry) decides to beautify their buildings and build new ones, so that still today we can admire the beautiful finishes and interior paintings of fine buildings that overlook the town&#39;s streets. Today the town, after the crisis of the sixties, which caused a massive exodus to the coast, has found its identity by focusing mainly on the recovery of the agricultural economy and crafts as well as cultural development, environment and tourism in the territory.</div>
