Fermo

Fermo is an Italian town of 37,235 inhabitants, capital of the homonymous province in the Marche. Archaeological excavations conducted in Fermo, in two distinct areas Contrada Mossa and Contrada Misericordia, have restored funerary material dating back to the IX to VIII centuries BC, belonging to the Proto Etruscan typology, so that scholars have defined the area of Fermo a Villanovan cultural island. Roman colony in 264 BC, Fermo participates in various war campaigns and its inhabitants obtain Roman citizenship in 90 BC Annexed to the Lombard kingdom and then to the kingdom of the Franks.

It became the center and the capital of the Marca Fermana, a large area that extended from the Musone to over Vasto and from the Apennines to the sea. A free commune at the end of the 12th century, it subsequently saw the alternation of different lordships. In the Napoleonic period, it was the capital of the Tronto Department one of the three departments in which the Marche was divided and in which also Ascoli and initially also Camerino were included. The other departments were those of the Metauro with capital Ancona and of the Musone with capital Macerata.