Cingoli is a town and ''
comune
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'' of
the Marches,
Italy
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, in the
province of Macerata
The province of Macerata () is a province in the Marche region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Macerata. The province contains 55 ''comuni'' (: ''comune''), listed in the ''comuni'' of the province of Macerata. Located between the rivers ...
, about by road from the town of
Macerata. It is the birthplace of Pope
Pius VIII. It is one of
I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").
History
The town occupies the site of the ancient ''Cingulum'', a town of
Picenum
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, founded and strongly fortified by
Julius Caesar
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's lieutenant
Titus Labienus (probably on the site of an earlier village) in 63 BCE at his own expense. Its lofty position at an elevation of about made it of some importance in the civil wars, but otherwise little is heard of it. Under the
Roman Empire
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it was a ''
municipium
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''.
Main sights
Cingoli is also known as the "Balcony of Marche" ("Il Balcone delle Marche") because of its ''belvedere'' (viewpoint) from which, on a clear day, the sight may encompass all of the Marche and further across the
Adriatic Sea
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to the
Croatia
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n mountain tops.
Religious buildings
*
Cingoli Cathedral (''Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta'')
*
Collegiate church of Sant'Esuperanzio, Cingoli (''Collegiata di Sant'Esuperanzio''):
Gothic church
*
Santuario di Santa Sperandia
*
San Benedetto
*
San Francesco
*
San Filippo Neri
*
San Giacomo
*
San Girolamo
*
San Nicolò
*
Santo Spirito
*
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria
*
San Domenico
Secular buildings
* Palazzo municipale
* Biblioteca Comunale ″Ascariana″
Museums
* Pinacoteca comunale "D. Stefanucci" named after
Donatello Stefanucci
* Museo archeologico statale di Cingoli
* Museo del Lago
* Museo del Sidecar
Sport
Cingoli has been host to the
Italian Sidecarcross Grand Prix a number times and have hosted on 16th May
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
.
FIM Sidecarcross World Championship - 2010 Calendar
FIM website, accessed: 30 October 2009
Twin towns — sister cities
Cingoli is twinned with:
* Aprilia, Lazio, Italy (2004)
References
External links
Cingoli news
Cingoli sport
* History of Cingoli: http://www.antiqui.it/cingoli.htm
Cities and towns in the Marche
Roman sites of the Marche
Borghi più belli d'Italia
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