Corridonia

Corridonia is an Italian metropolis of 15,249 populations within the province of Macerata. In the past it had other denominations first Montolmo, then Pausula for identity with the Roman town of Pausulae. It took its cutting edge call in 1931 in honor of Filippo Corridoni, a innovative, socialist and interventionist unionist who died on October 23, 1915 inside the Trench of the Frasche. Documented as a citadel as a minimum from 1115, between 1306 and 1317 it experienced a period of splendor because the seat of the General Parliament of the Marche. In 1433 the castle was destroyed with the aid of Francesco Sforza and later rebuilt.

The historical call, Mont Olmo, derived from an historic secular elm that rose at the top of the city, in front of Santa Maria in castello. The plant died in 1831. In 1851, Cardinal Giuseppe Ugolini, with the auspices made and through his mediation obtained by way of Pope Pius IX, made possible the elevation of Montolmo to the rank and honor of the city giving it the name of the ancient Roman city of Pausulae. Also the seal of the network become changed to its shield become delivered, above the elm, a phoenix growing from its ashes.