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Fiorenzuola di Focara

It is one of the four castles (together with Casteldimezzo, Gradara, and Granarola) which were built with defensive aims between the 10th and 13th centuries in the border area between the Church of Ravenna and the Church of Pesaro first, and then between the Malatesta of Rimini and those of Pesaro after.
The original name of the village was Fiorenzuola: the specification "of Focara" was added only in 1889, and it was probably given by the fact that there was in the past the presence of fires used to signal the position to sailors, or of the so-called "fornacelle" where bricks and terracottas were baked (from the dialect of Romagna, fuchèr or fugher, that is making fire to bake the bricks).
Just a few evidences have remained of the history of the town: some 17th-18th century portals, and some knockers at the portals. Besides the ruins of the walls, it is interesting the door with the plate reporting Dante's verses about a fact occurred in the sea in front of the town (Inferno XXVIII). Moreover, there is Sant'Andrea Church dating back to the 12th century.

Further info (Italian text)

Province: Pesaro and Urbino Region: the Marches
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