Folignano

Folignano is an Italian town of 9,212 inhabitants inside the province of Ascoli Piceno in the Marche location. To witness a pre Roman past are the Piceno necropolises that were located close to Folignano and the hamlet of Piane di Morro, inside the latter a bronze sword with a specific antenna hilt changed into discovered. Already in Roman instances the Rocca di Morro hill become a strategic point called Cestrum Muricae. In the contemporary municipal place there had been additionally Roman villas. With the fall of the Roman Empire and the appearance of the Middle Ages the duration of the fortification commenced.

The villas have been abandoned and on pinnacle of the hills fortified castles were constructed, together with the Castello di Pigna, San Gennaro, San Cipriano and Rocca di Morro. San Cipriano and San Gennaro had been also in rate of syndicates depending on the town of Ascoli Piceno. From the year 996 Cestrum Fundanianum, the current Castel Folignano, the primary fortification of the southern border area is also stated.