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	The town of Sempronii Forum, 164 miles from Rome, was situated to the east of the Fossombrone, in San Martino del Piano, it was soon elevated to the rank of City Hall (first century BC) and enjoyed a period of splendor in the era imperial.</div>
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	The ancient city was devastated by the Goths led by Alaric, in transit to Rome in 409 A.D. There were more than one hundred thousand people, men, women and children with their farms, which were plundered and destroyed because along the way.</div>
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	During the twenty years of the Gothic war, there was a continuous passage of armies and after the victory of the Byzantines Narsete of Totila (552 AD), it became part of the Exarchate of Ravenna, composing the so-called Pentapolis ration together with Urbino, Cagli, Gubbio Jesi.Dopo many ruins and the inhabitants built the new center on a hill overlooking the present city.</div>
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	In Lombard times its territory was the scene of a fierce battle between King Liutprand and the rebel Duke of Spoleto Trasmondo who won, was deposed and ended up in a convent. Fossombrone as shown by written documents, it remained outside the church rule until 999, after which it came under the power of Pope Sylvester II.</div>
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	In 1444 Galeazzo Malatesta, Lord of Pesaro, the city sold it to Count Federico da Montefeltro, under whose lordship, Fossombrone enjoyed a period of prosperity for the flourishing of wool production, paper, silk and for building renewal. A Frederick was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo who lived there almost constantly due to the amenity of the place and the healthy climate.</div>
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	MONUMENTS AND PLACES OF INTEREST</div>
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	Give some relief in Fossombrone some streets and neighborhoods of the old town were born around the XV and XVI century, during the period when the town was elected the country residence of the Della Rovere family.</div>
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	Corso Garibaldi assumes great importance for his four-century palaces as Staurenghi palace Cattabeni, municipal and bishopric although they have lost much of their former glory except for the high court. Among the church buildings are noteworthy churches of St. Philip, St. Francis, St. Augustine, Sant&#39;Aldebrando the Citadel and the Cathedral. Noteworthy is the monument &quot;twinning&quot;, cast bronze artist Andrea Corradi.</div>
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	Church of St. Philip.</div>
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	The building is located on the left side of the course, it was built between 1608-13 by forsempronesi for public vote at the birth of the son of Duke Federico Ubaldo Francesco Maria II della Rovere.</div>
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	The fa&ccedil;ade has remained unfinished while the baroque interior has stucco attributed to the plastic artist Thomas Amantini. This baroque church is used as a setting for concerts and artistic and cultural events sponsored by the city and by &#39;Vernarecci Association: who currently care management.</div>
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	Church of St. Augustine.</div>
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	The church is always on the left of the course Garibaldi, built in the fourteenth century, while the late eighteenth century it was enlarged and elevated. The gabled fa&ccedil;ade is characterized by a large sandstone portal and two walled-up windows of the seventeenth century, is also the emblem of the Malatesta and that of Delli Spetiali corporation (XIV century), the wooden door owns the statues of St. Augustine and Santa Monica dating back to the seventeenth century.</div>
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	The interior with a nave and moved by tall columns, recently restored to its original color, preserves the main altar of 1802, the canvas of the Nativity by Federico Zuccari, above the entrance there is a canvas representing Madonna and saints school Bologna XVIII century. The first altar on the left is the representation of the Madonna of the belt with the Saints Monica and Augustine painting by Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri.</div>
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	Church of San Francesco</div>
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	The church located in front of Piazza Dante and the park was built in the eighteenth century on the site of another dedicated to Santa Francesca Romana.</div>
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	High unfinished facade preserved in the lunette a sandstone relief, works by Domenico Rosselli (XV century) depicting the Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Bernardino unfortunately severely damaged during the last war. The interior of the church with a nave is in neoclassical style and keeps the canvas on the high altar of the Warriors depicting Jesus Crucified with Saints Jerome and Francis and a wooden crucifix of the seventeenth century.</div>
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	Bishop&#39;s Palace.</div>
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	The building is situated after the Town Hall, was built starting in 1479 at the behest of the then Bishop of origin Urbino Jerome Biscotti who called to work there workers already engaged in the construction of the Ducal Palace in Urbino including Domenico Rosselli.</div>
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	The building has undergone significant alterations over time, but still the rusticated fa&ccedil;ade retains its original Renaissance style, this time equipped with a porch is divided by a frame that serves as a balcony at first floor windows which are topped by a frieze and by triangular gables and semicircular alternating.</div>
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	The interior is characterized by the large reception hall with a frieze of garlands and coats of arms of all the bishops fossombronesi and the private chapel that preserves a Crucifixion, fresco attributed to Bartolomeo di Gentile dated to 1493.</div>
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	CIVIL ARCHITECTURE</div>
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	Corso Garibaldi</div>
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	At the entrance of the street it opens wide Sempronius Gracchus with a memorial stone dedicated the eponymous character, continuing into the artery are monumental buildings including four with rusticated fa&ccedil;ade while on the right lies the oldest part of the city.</div>
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	Lower Court</div>
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	Forsempronesi was one of the residences of the Dukes of Urbino, located almost opposite St. Augustine is a sixteenth-century building with a porch, windows carved in sandstone ashlar portal dish that despite having lost much of its former glory still retains exquisite private chapel of Cardinal Giuliano Della Rovere inside with stucco attributed to Brandani.</div>
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	Palazzo Ducale (High Court)</div>
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	This sixteenth century Renaissance building was built with contributions by Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Girolamo Genga for Cardinal Giuliano Della Rovere brother of Duke Guidobaldo II. The building has a raised inner courtyard, with Renaissance portals, an elegant gallery and an underlying ninfeo by Ludovico Carducci; Also interesting is the chapel of Cardinal Giuliano.</div>
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	Inside the halls of the palace have coffered ceilings, there is the study of the Duchess Eleonora.</div>
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	Palazzo Cattabeni</div>
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	Sixteenth-century palace along Corso Garibaldi left also said the pawnshop, its facade is rusticated with a portico with three arches and with three high windows in the smooth stone.</div>
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	The Cattabeni family originating in Ferrara, made affinity with Silk-Rufo through the marriage of the Chevalier Flaminio inheriting so the sumptuous sixteenth-century building.</div>
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	The building was completely restored and consolidated after the damages suffered during the war, it contains a chapel decorated by Raphael and rooms with wooden ceilings and coffered.</div>
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	MUSEUMS</div>
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	archaeological museum and art gallery Augusto Vernarecci</div>
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	The High Court is currently hosting the museum and art gallery founded by the homonymous Fossombrone scholar in 1901, here was established in the sixties as a result of damage to the first during the war.</div>
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	The museum in recent decades has undergone a major expansion due to the fortuitous finds and excavations in Sempronii Forum campaigns, this has made necessary in 1997 the total rearrangement of the museum that show the succession of human cultures in the area.</div>
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	The art gallery is located since 1993 in the High Court is a prestigious collection created thanks again to Augustus Vernerecci and enlarged by donations from Gustava Augusta Von Stein Ribecchi and Count Luigi Rocchi Camerata Passionei Jesi Fossombrone heir of the noble family. In the gallery you can see works from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, miniatures (XVIII and XIX century) and a collection of ceramics from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The Association Vernarecci care currently managing both museums.</div>
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	House museum and picture gallery Cesarini</div>
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	The house museum is located in the sixteenth century palace that once belonged Pergamino eponymous writer, reopened to the public in 1988 is divided into twenty rooms of which only an ancient art contain the remaining contemporary and modern works of art of the best Italian artists. The collection of paintings was bequeathed to the town in 1977 by the notary Giuseppe Cesarini. The Association Vernarecci it currently supports the management.</div>
