Iesi

Jesi is a town with 40 367 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Ancona, Marche region of central Italy, near the port city of Ancona on the river esino.

Jesi has long been the center of a small city-state.

On the other side of the esino the famous white wine Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi is growing.

  • 5.1 based company
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.2 personalities who have worked on site

Location and data

Borders the following municipalities: Agugliano, Camerata Picena, Castelbellino, Chiaravalle, Cingoli (MC ), Filottrano, Maiolati Spontini, Monsano, Monte Roberto, Monte San Vito, Polverigi, San Marcello, San Paolo di Jesi, Santa Maria Nuova and Staffolo.

History

Jesi was founded by the people of the Umbrians and later conquered by the Etruscans. After the battle of Sentino the Romans 295 BC gained sovereignty over town and region. His time was the community Aesis. After the end of the Western Roman Empire Jesi initially belonged to the Eastern Roman Empire. 756 Jesi was bequeathed, along with other cities in the church, a status of the Great was made ​​in the year 800 at the coronation of Charles undo. Immediately Jesi belonged to the newly created county of Marche. 999, Emperor Otto III. Jesi back to the Church. During this time, the feudal structure of the place began to emerge. During the 11th century the town was repaved. In this period also saw the construction of the Cathedral, the Palace of the City Council and the writing of the Constitution of the town.

1194, the future Emperor Frederick II was born in Jesi, which gave the place in consequence of the rank of an imperial city. As a result, the fate of Jesi remained closely linked with that of the Hohenstaufen, especially with sons Frederick and Enzio Manfred. After the end of the Hohenstaufen, the fate of the town was influenced by the Malatesta, Braccio da Montone and Sforza, until finally sold in 1447 Francesco Sforza Jesi to the Pope. In these changing times Jesi experienced a general economic decline.

The painter Lorenzo Lotto is, among others, for the revival of the city. He created several churches in Jesi for important works of art. 1472 one of the first editions of the Divine Comedy was printed in Jesi, and the expansion of the city took at that time an upswing. From about 1500 took over local landowners, the government of the place, which continued until the end of the 18th century - to 1797 Napoleon's troops ended this state. Also in the 18th century, two further important sons of the city were born Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and the musician Gaspare Spontini. After 1808 Jesi was one of the main towns of the district Metaurus.

In 1815, after the end of the Napoleonic wars, a non- ecclesiastical, civil polity developed in Jesi. During this time, industrialization began. The beginning of the movement for the creation of an Italian nation found in Jesi echo. Originally from Jesi Marchese Antonio Colocci in 1849 elected for the province of Ancona in the Constituent Assembly of the Roman Republic - and after the unit, in 1860, the Italian senator. In the same year Italian troops expelled the last units of the Pope from Jesi; Since then, the city belongs to Italy.

Traffic

Jesi is located approximately 15 kilometers southwest of the airport Ancona and the past there leading A14 Adriatic Motorway and the Strada Statale 16 Adriatica. Of the latter branches off at Ancona airport from the motorway-like road SS 76, which continues through Jesi to Umbria and the Strada Statale 3 Via Flaminia to Rome. On the coast runs alongside the SS 16 and the railway line Bologna -Ancona, the railway line branches off from the at Falconara to Jesi and on to Rome. Thus there is a rail link between Jesi and the airport train station Castelferretti and the Ancona center. In Jesi was from 1914 to 1963, a military airfield, now the city has a small airfield for general aviation.

Policy

Mayor

Mayor of the city is Fabiano Belchecci.

Twinning

Jesi is connected due to its Hohenstaufen history with Waiblingen Baden -Württemberg and on this with its French twin town of Mayenne in France.

Economy

Resident companies

In Jesi is a New Holland plant.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Frederick II (1194-1250), Roman -German Emperor
  • Baccio Pontelli (ca. 1450-1492 ), architect
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), composer
  • Honorati Bernardino (1724-1807), Cardinal of the Catholic Church
  • Gaspare Bernardo Pianetti (1780-1862), Cardinal of the Catholic Church
  • Giuseppe Balducci (1796-1845), composer
  • Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950), writer
  • Corrado Olmi ( born 1926 ), actor
  • Valeria Moriconi (1931-2005), actress
  • Roberto Mancini (born 1964 ), football player and coach
  • Giancarlo Falappa (* 1964), motorcycle racer
  • Giovanna Trillini (* 1970), foil fencer
  • Valentina Vezzali (* 1974), foil fencer
  • Michele Scarponi ( born 1979 ), cyclist
  • Alice Bella Gamba (* 1987), actress and dancer

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1557), painter
  • Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851), composer and conductor
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