Montecosaro

In 1568 Enea Galizia and twelve fellow plotters were hanged from the grilles of the Teatro delle Logge after a failed revolt against the Cesarini, a grim episode in the square of this hilltop castle town. Montecosaro keeps its 14th-century walls and watchtowers above the Chienti valley, while in the lower town stands the Cluniac abbey church of Santa Maria a Piè di Chienti.

Highlights

• Santa Maria a Piè di Chienti, a Romanesque church rebuilt in 1125
• The Augustinian complex, now the town hall, with a Roman sarcophagus and Callido organ
• Il Cassero, the old fortress at the top of the town, now a park
• The Annunziata feast on 25 March, with streets decked in paper flowers

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