Mondolfo, Marche - Italy: Things to Do - What, How and Why to visit it (4K)

If you are planning to visit Marche, an Italian region, consider visiting the Mondolfo village as well. In this video, you’ll find the best tips on things to do in the town, with a sightseeing map on the most relevant points of interest to enjoy, so you can easily imagine and organize your trip: WHAT to see, HOW to plan your visit, and WHY to discover Mondolfo.
In this video:
- WHAT are the major attractions in Mondolfo that you can't go home without having seen, including the church of Santa Giustina, the garden of Bastione Sant’Anna, the Sferisterio, and the monumental complex of St. Augustine.
- Then, I’ll describe to you HOW to follow a daily tour to better visit the town, with a clear map of Mondolfo village and tips for nearby attractions.
- Finally, we’ll discover WHY to visit Mondolfo, with his rich historic city center.
WHAT
Mondolfo is situated in the Italian region of Marche.
This ancient village, with double walls, preserves its medieval center.
The heart of the Borgo is the large central square dominated by the Town Hall, which was built with the civic tower in neo-gothic style in 1931. Next to it, the parish church of Santa Giustina, already attested in 1290, was renovated and elected a Collegiate Church by Pope Urban VIII in 1635. In the elegant cantoria located above the main entrance, there is an organ dated 1776 by Gaetano Callido, the greatest exponent of the Venetian organ school of the Eighteenth Century.
Along the fortified walls of the Mondolfo castle stands the garden of Bastione Sant’Anna, a beautiful Italian garden in a panoramic position.
Passing by the sixteenth-century Palazzo Giraldi Della Rovere, you will reach the Sferisterio, the playground of the famous Renaissance play called “gioco del pallone col bracciale”. Through a large seventeenth-century arch, you’ll get to the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato, a small church which in 1612 belonged to the Confraternity of the “buona morte” (good death), whose members during the funeral rites wore a black bag. The gilded wood altar has a crucifix considered miraculous, and the interesting canvas of Salome with the head of St John the Baptist.
Walking along the walls, you will reach the belvedere, from where you can have a gorgeous view of the Monte Conero and of the marina. From Palazzo Peruzzi you’ll reach Porta Fanestre and then the first wall circuit, oval in shape and dating back to the VI century in its oldest part, while the existing masonry date back to the XV century. From its terraces, you can admire the panorama of the surrounding countryside and valleys. The bastion of Sant’Anna ceased its military function and has become an Italian garden characterized by the geometries of the flowerbeds.
From the Ospedaletto hamlet, the ancient hospital for the pilgrims outside the walls, you’ll arrive at the second wall circuit, erected in the thirteenth century and rearranged in the fifteenth century by the well-known military architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini, which was responsible for providing a homogeneous defensive system, adapting the castle and the impressive fortress with the use of firearms.
Porta Santa Maria (XIX century) is the connection to the monumental complex of St. Augustine. The church of Santa Maria del Soccorso was built in the late sixteenth cent. and the interior was redone during the eighteenth cent.The façade has three elegant sandstone portals with decorative motifs in Renaissance style. Inside, the paintings of sacred subjects are the work of the seventeenth-century masters: Claudio Ridolfi, Giuliano Persciutti and Giovan Francesco.
A km away from the Borgo stands the convent of San Sebastian, built in 1760 on the site occupied by a church of 1479. A little farther, the abbey of San Gervasio of Bulgaria, founded in the V-VI century, has a basilican system borrowed from the large churches of Ravenna and an eighteenth-century interior. In the crypt is kept the largest sarcophagus of the Marches of the VI century, with engraved Christian symbols, crosses, crowns of laurel and two peacocks symbols of immortality.
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