Belforte del Chienti

It is located in the town square and documents mention it from 1218, although its present form dates back to the period following the 1741 earthquake, as reported in an epigraph on the external wall on which it is written: Turris haec / a fulm [ ine] ac terrem [otu] / percussa / restau [rata] fuit / a [nno] Domains / MDCCXXXXI //.

Overall, the figured tables amount to thirty-five; to these are added the two side scrolls with the inscriptions in which the names of the customers and the year of execution appear.

Outside the inhabited center, almost behind the city walls (in fact called in Latin "extra moenia"), there is the restored and, over time, enlarged church of San Sebastiano, built under authorization issued by the bishop of Camerino in 1479 to protect the plague.

The church has simple shapes and limited dimensions where there are also frescoes depicting the Nativity and the Madonna del Rosario by Andrea De Magistris from 1558.

The small church is located in the hamlet of Villa Pianiglioli and boasts an interesting series of sandstone bas-reliefs that particularly animate the facade.

You can immediately notice the representation of the Santa Maria to the side of which appears the inscription "RUS PIANI OGLIOLI" from which the toponym Pianiglioli derives.

There are also three paintings depicting: San Venanzio; Sant'Eustachio holding the town of Belforte on his left hand; the Sacred Conversation.

Inside it has two marble slabs, a confessional and an altar, moreover there was kept a canvas with stylistic references that lead back to De Magistris.

Inside it has two marble slabs, a confessional and an altar, moreover there was kept a canvas with stylistic references that lead back to De Magistris.

The palace houses works of great historical interest such as the bell, dating back to the sixteenth century, from the church of San Sebastiano.

The statue of Anselmo Ciappi, a well-known citizen of Belfort who died in 1936, is located between the green of the flower beds and plants of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II.

In medieval times, the village of Belforte was accessed through the arch of Porta Romana which still constitutes the main entrance to the historic center.

It dates back to the sixteenth century, located near the church of San Sebastiano, marking the beginning of the via Lauretana in Belforte del Chienti.