Urbisaglia

Urbisaglia is a municipality with 2675 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Macerata in the Marche region (Italian Marche ). Your name goes back to the ancient predecessor Urbs Salvia ( Pollentinorum ).

Borders the following municipalities: Colmurano, Corridonia, Loro Piceno, Petriolo and Tolentino.

History

The place was in the ancient landscape Picenum and was probably already in pre-Roman times, a settlement center of the people of Pollentini, even though no corresponding archaeological finds were made. By 60 BC the city at the intersection of two major streets was named after a Salvius; End of the 1st century AD, it was the Roman colony. Early 5th century AD, was destroyed Urbs Salvia of Alaric.

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Urbisaglia was temporarily under the rule of the neighboring Tolentino until it was in 1569 annexed the Papal States.

The ancient settlement was located east of the modern Urbisaglia. The city wall with towers provided with a circumference of 2 km is well preserved, as are the remains of numerous major buildings: an amphitheater, the end of the 1st century AD built by the originating from Urbs Salvia family of Senator Lucius Flavius ​​Silva Nonius Bassus; a theater, also from the Flavian period; a Badanlage; an aqueduct, a cryptoporticus and a water reservoir. Excavations have taken place in recent times by the University of Macerata. Since 1999, an archaeological park with a size of about 40 ha and an archaeological museum have been established.