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The Rocca Roveresca is an essential stop on your visit to the city of Senigallia. The fortress can be defined as an extraordinary history book: in fact, it is the result of the overlapping of defensive structures that have occurred over the centuries, since the city’s origins, on a site of decisive strategic importance.
Over time, towers and bastions have been added to the defensive structure present since the Roman foundation of the city: evidence of the fourteenth-century Rocchetta commissioned by Egidio Albornoz is still visible, against which the Rocca di Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta was built in 1450 (1450).
The current structure of the monument is due to Giovanni della Rovere, lord of Senigallia, and son-in-law of Federico III da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. It was Duke Federico who made the best architects of the time available to Giovanni: Luciano Laurana and Baccio Pontelli. The intervention began in 1478 with the aim of adapting the fortress to the new defensive needs. In 1503 the fortress was conquered by Cesare Borgia who carried out the famous massacre described by Niccolò Machiavelli in Senigallia.
Rocca Roveresca is unique because it was not only a fortress, but also a stately home, home to an artillery school founded by Guidubaldo della Rovere in 1533. After the ducal dynasty died out, after the city returned to Church rule in 1631, it served as a papal prison and orphanage.
Today it hosts art exhibitions and prestigious cultural events.
Program of archaeology conferences related to the exhibition “The Shape of Gold”:
JULY 3, 5:30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Diego Voltolini (director of the National Archaeological Museum of the Marche), With gold on his head: tiaras and crowns, the symbol of prestige
JULY 17, 5:30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Gaia Pignocchi (archaeologist), Ornaments in Prehistory. A language without words
JULY 24, 5:30 p.m. Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Lepore (Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Bologna), Asiatica luxuria. Luxury and Politics in Rome during the Republican Age
JULY 31, 5:30 PM, speaker: Professor Alessandra Coen (Associate Professor of Pre-Roman Italian Civilization and Etruscology, University of Urbino) The pomp of the Senoni ladies: local tradition and external contributions
Alla struttura difensiva presente sin dalla fondazione romana della città, si sono nel tempo aggiunti torri e bastioni: sono ancora visibili le testimonianze della trecentesca Rocchetta voluta da Egidio Albornoz, a ridosso della quale sorse poi nel 1450 la Rocca di Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1450).
La struttura attuale del monumento è dovuta a Giovanni della Rovere, signore di Senigallia, e genero di Federico III da Montefeltro, duca di Urbino. Fu appunto il duca Federico che mise a disposizione di Giovanni i migliori architetti dell'epoca: Luciano Laurana e Baccio Pontelli. L'intervento iniziò nel 1478 con lo scopo di adattare la rocca alle nuove esigenze difensive. Nel 1503 la Rocca venne espugnata da Cesare Borgia che proprio a Senigallia compì la celebre strage descritta da Niccolò Machiavelli.
La Rocca Roveresca è unica nel suo genere perché non fu solo una fortezza, ma anche dimora signorile, sede di una scuola di artiglieria fondata da Guidubaldo della Rovere nel 1533; estintasi la dinastia ducale, dopo il ritorno della città sotto il dominio della Chiesa nel 1631, fu carcere pontificio ed orfanotrofio.
Oggi ospita mostre d'arte e prestigiose manifestazioni culturali.
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