Fabriano
Fabriano | |
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| Comune di Fabriano | |
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.svg) Fabriano within the Province of Ancona | |
Location of Fabriano  | |
St. John the Baptist | |
| Saint day | June 24 |
| Website | Official website |
Fabriano is a town and
Fabriano, with Roma, Parma, Torino and Carrara, is an Italian creative city (UNESCO). The town is in the category Folk Arts (for the Fabriano's handmade paper production).
History
Fabriano appears to have been founded in the early Middle Ages by the inhabitants of a small Roman town 5 kilometres (3 mi) south at Attiggio (Latin Attidium), of which some slight remains and inscriptions are extant. In 1276, Fabriano became one of the earliest places in Europe to produce paper.[3] Since the 13th century and even today, the town has a reputation for fine watermarked paper. This led to Fabriano's prosperity in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and was also one of the factors that led to the establishment of nearby Foligno in Umbria as one of the earliest printing centers in Italy in the 15th century, from 1470 onwards.
Geography
The municipality borders with Cerreto d'Esi, Costacciaro (PG), Esanatoglia (MC), Fiuminata (MC), Fossato di Vico (PG), Genga, Gualdo Tadino (PG), Matelica (MC), Nocera Umbra (PG), Poggio San Vicino (MC), Sassoferrato, Serra San Quirico and Sigillo (PG).[4]
Frazioni
The hamlets (frazioni) of Fabriano are:
Albacina, Argignano, Attiggio, Bassano, Bastia, Belvedere, Borgo Tufico, Cacciano, Ca' Maiano, Campodiegoli, Campodonico, Cancelli, Cantia, Castelletta, Ceresola, Ciaramella, Coccore, Collamato, Collegiglioni, Colle Paganello, Cupo, Fontanaldo, Grotte, Marena, Marenella, Marischio, Melano, Moscano, Nebbiano, Paterno, Poggio San Romualdo, Rufano beach, Precicchie, Rocchetta, Rucce, San Donato, San Giovanni, San Michele, San Pietro, Sant'Elia, Serradica, Valgiubbola, Vallemontagnana, Valleremita, Vallina, Varano, Viacce, Vigne.
Main sights
Fabriano's wealth and commitment to the fine arts in the late medieval period have left it with many monuments.
Churches
- Allegretto di Nuzio (c. 1360). Also important are the frescoes with Stories of the True Cross by the Folignate painter Giovanni di Corraduccio(1415).
- San Filippo Neri - Church in 14th century attached to hospital, converted to oratory of the Philippines in 1628[5]
- San Domenico
- Santi Biagio e Romualdo[6]
- Sant'Onofrio - Church rebuilt in 1727[7]
- The Benedictine Abbey
- St Augustine
- Santa Caterina da Siena - Present church erected 1508[8]
- Collegiata of St. Nicholas
- Santa Maria del Piangato
- St Benedict
- Oratory of the Gonfalone[9]
Other buildings
- Palazzo del Podestà (1255) built in white stone from Vallemontagnana and subsequently modified several times. It has a distinctive bridge structure, a memory of the stream which once flowed under it. The central arcade has frescoes from the 13th-14th centuries portraying warriors, and an enigmatic Wheel of Fortune moved by a feminine figure.
- Sturinalto Fountain (1285), designed by Fontana Maggiore in Perugia.
- Communal Palace (c. 1350, rebuilt in 1690). It was the residence of the Chiavelli family, lords of the city until 1435. In the courtyard is a lapidarium with fragments of buildings of the ancient Roman cities of Attidium (Attiggio), Tuficum (Borgo Tufico) and Sentinum (Sassoferrato).
- Francescuccio di Cecco Ghissi, Master of Fossato, Master of San Verecondo, Ottaviano Nelli, Master of Staffolo, Antonio da Fabriano, Bicci di Lorenzo, Neri di Bicci; Bernardino di Mariotto, Filippo da Verona, Venanzio da Camerino and Piergentile da Matelica, Simone de Magistris, Domiziano Domiziani, Girolamo or Giacomo Nardini, Andrea Boscoli, Orazio Gentileschi, Ambrogio Monaco, Francesco Podesti, and Gentile da Fabriano.
- Loggiato of St. Francis (c. 1450)
- Vasari Portico (1316)
- Paper and Watermark Museum Fabriano
- Villa Marchese del Grillo
Notable people
- Totila, penultimate king of the Ostrogoths, suffered his defeat at Taginae near Fabriano on 1 July 552 AD.
- Gentile da Fabriano, 15th-century painter, whose most famous work, an oil painting of the Epiphany, is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
- Saint Silvestrinemonk, born in Paterno.
- Francesco Stelluti, co-founder of the Accademia dei Lincei, born in Fabriano in 1577
- Jessica Rizzo (born 1965), pornographic actress and businesswoman.
See also
- Ariston Thermo
- Archivio storico delle Cartiere Miliani Fabriano
- Cartiere Miliani Fabriano
- Cassa di Risparmio di Fabriano e Cupramontana
- Elica
- Fabriano Basket
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Fabriano-Matelica
References
- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ISBN 978-3-7965-1090-8.
- ^ 42382 Fabriano on OpenStreetMap
- ^ Guida e statistica della città e Comune di Fabriano, (1874); page 163.
- ^ Guida, page 155-156.
- ^ Guida, page 159.
- ^ Guida, page 154.
- ^ Guida, page 154.
- (Incorporates text from Bill Thayer's Gazetteer of Italy, by permission.)
External links
- Fabriano official website
- Museo della Carta (Paper making museum)
- Fabriano Storica - history, art, culture, legend, curiosity
- Bill Thayer's site
- Made in Fabriano Academy
Further reading
- Albro, Sylvia Rodgers. Fabriano: City of Medieval and Renaissance Papermaking. Washington, DC, and New Castle, DE: Library of Congress and Oak Knoll Press, 2016.
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