Mondaino and the fortress Malatestiana

The name probably Mondaino makes reference to the deer that once were numerous in the forests of this area and belongs to a small town that reserves many surprises including a beautiful square and a fortress from which you can admire a splendid panorama. The founders of the likely Mondaino were the Etruscans who settled in the main Apennine valleys. The Roman period led to the establishment of many towns and production among which are the Vicus Dianensis famous for the temple dedicated to Diana huntress, from which ruins after it was built the parish church of San Michele Arcangelo and within which we can now interesting to admire paintings by G. Peaks and three frontals with splendid decorations flowers and fruit of the eighteenth century. Lombard was raised during the parish church dedicated to Sant'Apollinare Martyr to witness the role of cultural and social communities covered by The City of Mondaino was the scene of historic meetings: dates to the 1393 peace agreement signed between Charles Malatesta and his eternal enemy Antonio da Montefeltro, while in 1459 the meeting took place between two eternal enemies as Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, and the Duke of Urbino Federico II.

Of great impact and is visible from the valley, and the Malatesta Fortress valuable architecture in the fourteenth century. original work of Mondainesi construction Malatesta considered but because of the many interventions taken by the lords of Rimini. Inside of the fort today can admire the Madonna del Latte, fresco Sweets Bernardino, and the Paleontological Museum of tripoli mondainese. The tripoli is a sedimentary rock formed over millennia with the continuous and fossilize deposited on the seabed of microscopic diatoms and radiolari. Nowadays we can find samples of fish and plants fossilized lived millions of years ago. Another masterpiece of this small town, visible when you come out of the fortress is the characteristic Piazza Maggiore, with its neoclassical portico by Francesco Cosci. The enchanting scenery of the urban Mondaino city every year in mid-August, the stage of a big medieval festival called the Palio of Deer. Tournaments, conventions, exhibitions and fashion shows evoke the great moments of history and glorious.