Castelfidardo

Castelfidardo is a town in the Italian region Marche, in the province of Ancona with 18,861 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012).

The place is known especially by the generation of accordion instruments. An accordion museum bears witness to the development of these tools. Starting from the traditional accordion preparation are described in Castelfidardo as well as the area up to Ancona since the 60s of the 20th century also made ​​electronic organs ( Farfisa, GEM, Orla, Elka, Pari, Antonelli / SIEL, Bontempi and Crumar ).

Places in the vicinity include Loreto, Osimo and Ancona. The place is located on a hill 212 meters high, eight kilometers away from the coast. The city dates back to a church with castle.

On September 18, 1860, the Piedmontese troops of General Enrico Cialdini the papal troops of Generals De Pimodan and Lamoricière beat in the battle of Castelfidardo.

Candidacy Cycling World Cup 2011

Together with the neighboring municipality of Loreto Castelfidardo applied to host the UCI Road World Championships in 2011, but lost the bid to Copenhagen.

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