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Cupramontana - Photo (c)
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Cupramontana
Cupra Montana dominates the Jesi Castles and is called "The
Verdicchio's capital".
Since 1570, on Monday there is a very popular market.
Since 1928, it is the seat of the most famous grape festival of the region.
Height 505 m
History
Cupra Montana is one of the oldest cities of the Piceno and it was
founded in the VI/V century B.C.. It draws its name from the goddess Cupra,
who presides over the fertility.
The rich ancient Roman Municipium (Town
Hall) was destroyed entirely by the barbarian invasions.
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It was part of the Longobard Dukedom of Camerino/Spoleto. Some centuries before the year one
thousand, a fortified post, a castle later, called Massaccio (mass of Accio)
was risen in the highest part of the hill. Since the XIII century it joined
the rural area of Jesi, following its historical events.
In the XV century, it was one of the fortress of the Friars' heretical sect;
In the XVI/XVII century was an important cultural center.
In 1798, the inhabitants offered a tenacious resistance against the French
troops. In 1861, Massaccio had back its old name of Cupra Montana.
What to
visit
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International label's museum
- The museum is situated in the eighteenth-century Lions Palace. The
museum was opened in 1987 and it boasts about 60.000 wine's labels,
coming from all over the world.
It is divided into three sections: the historical one, which
documents the oldest labels, either of Verdicchio or of other wines;
the artistic one, with hundreds sketches relating to wine, created
by famous Italian and foreign artists; the present one, with about
2000 labels, which are periodically on show, according to some
special themes.
Archaelogical Zone - here you can
still admire the tracing of the Roman thermal baths, by the Town
Hall. In Bovio street, there are the ruins of the aqueduct's
container, which dates back to the classical age.
Town Hall - it dates back to the
second half of the XVII century and it was build according to Mattia
Capponi's plan. It is the residence of the Town Library, which is
equipped with a rich patrimony of incunabula and several editions of
the sixteenth century.
St. Leonard's Church -
firstly built in the XIII century and then rebuilt in the XVIII
century, with the statues on the façade. Inside the Church, there is
the "altar-frontal in carved wood" (1681) by Andrea
Scoccianti, " The Circumcision" (1615) by Antonio Sarti and a
table of the Scuola Marchigiana (1400).
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Cupramontana - Photo (c)
ralterhoener
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St Lawrence's Church - the church was
achieved from 1770 to 1785 according to Mattia Capponi's plan. There are
paintings by Pietro Locatelli (XVII century) and Francesco Appiani
(1704-1792).
St. Mary of the Mercy's Church - it was
rebuild according to Luigi Bellonci's plan, a Mattia Capponi's pupil,
between 1806 and 1810. Inside there is a noteworthy fresco of the Xvth
century, painted by Dionisio, Girolamo and Gioacchino Nardini.
St. Joseph of the Cave's Monastery or
White Brothers' monastery
- of the last decades of the XVIIIth century, it has been founded by the
Camaldolite Confraternity (X century), with its caves bored in the
sandstone. The eremites lived there until 1927.
Festivals
The Grape Festival - 1st Sunday of October
Patron Festival - May 26th
Courtesy of
Strada del
verdicchio di Jesi Jesi verdicchio wine Trail
Marche accommodations
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