Fermo

Comune di Fermo

Via Mazzini, 4 – 0734 2841

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Agricultural and commercial center (cereals, vines, olives, fruit , vegetables , fodder , livestock, beekeeping ) with the food, textile (cotton) , engineering , shoe . Holiday resort (Lido di Fermo , Marina Palmense ) .

Dominated by the Romanesque-Gothic cathedral ( 1227, and remodeled in the eighteenth century . ) And the magnificent panoramic square gyrfalcon (or round ), the city preserves the ruins of the theater , a large pool epuratoria of the century. A.D. , and various churches :

San Zeno, Romanesque (XII century . ) , St. Francis and St. Dominic, in the thirteenth century. , St. Augustine (XIII – XIV) , with the adjacent oratory of Santa Monica, Santa Maria del Carmine and St. Philip , Baroque .

Also noteworthy :

Tower of Matteucci (XIV cent.) the Town Hall, the Renaissance , with the monumental statue of Pope Sixtus V , Accursio Baldi (1590) ; the building of the University ( City Library ) , baroque, with the adjacent loggia of St. Roch ( 1528) ; the Apostolic Palace , the former residence of the papal governors of the sixteenth century . ( Museum) ; Palace Azzolino, of the sixteenth century . , and other private buildings .

Artistic and cultural center , Freeze has many educational institutes school . Rich Civic Art Gallery .