Fano

Fano is an Italian town of 60,978 inhabitants inside the province of Pesaro and Urbino inside the Marche region. The metropolis, famous for its carnival, the oldest in Italy, is the 0.33 most populated of the Marche, after Ancona and Pesaro. Fano changed into Piceno middle, as evidenced by means of sporadic finds in the town and the excavations of Montegiove and Roncosambaccio. It was then an crucial Roman middle, referred to as Fanum Fortunae, a name that refers back to the Temple of Fortune probable constructed to bear witness to the conflict of the Metauro it turned into the year 207 BC and the Roman legions defeated the navy of the Carthaginian general Asdrubale, killing the condottiero who, after having crossed the Alps with war elephants, meant to rejoin his brother Hannibal.

The town had an extraordinary development in the course of the Roman domination way to its strategic function on the road that connected the valley of the Tiber to the Gallia Cisalpina. In 49 BC Gaius Julius Caesar conquered it collectively with Pesaro, hence starting the Civil War in opposition to the antagonist Pompey.