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Morciano di R.
City center
Its origins date back to Roman times and around the year 1000, it grows as a city when it was erected the Abbey of San Gregorio. Over the centuries, the floods of Conca river led citizens to leave the village several times, but it is just in the first years of 900 that Morciano underwent a repopulation and a restructuring. The antique look of an old agricultural village of the town center kept unaltered: brick roads, low buildings and terraces overlooking the river.
Popolo Square
This is the center of the town, also home of the Town Hall
Its origins date back to Roman times and around the year 1000, it grows as a city when it was erected the Abbey of San Gregorio. Over the centuries, the floods of Conca river led citizens to leave the village several times, but it is just in the first years of 900 that Morciano underwent a repopulation and a restructuring. The antique look of an old agricultural village of the town center kept unaltered: brick roads, low buildings and terraces overlooking the river.
Popolo Square
This is the center of the town, also home of the Town Hall
(clock tower and balconies with scrolls), of the Palace of “Fascio” (home of the party during Fascism), of the "fountain of Mercury" (dating back to 1900 representing Mercury in conjunction with 4 lions). From the square, along a narrow brick road, you reach the old town arriving in Umberto I Square where it can be visited the Church of San Michele Arcangelo (inside one aisle and two naves were rebuilt at the end of 800 because destroyed by a flood of Conca River), the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin (dating back to the twelfth century, octagonal plant). A plaque in memory of Giuseppe Garibaldi passage, in September 1859, is shown in the square.
Remains of San Gregorio's Abbey in Conca
Unfortunately very few historical remnants of San Gregorio's Abbey in Conca (founded around the eleventh century by St. Pier Damiani) are left and embedded in buildings of later period. In the ruins are still visible the arches of the Romanesque church (north side) and the Gothic arches dating back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Morciano bears a particular charming thanks to its 17th century town plan and wide streets. The old town arises curiosity for all of its hidden spots, rich in local history like the parish church of San Michele Arcangelo and the chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin of the Graces.
Umberto I Square
This is the old town of Morciano village, where it can be found historic buildings such as the one where Garibaldi spoke to the people in 1859. Right in the center of the square stands a bronze fountain, that recalls one of Umberto Buccioni's sculpture entitled "Development of a Bottle into Space", and the house of the artist's family, a great exponent of the Futurism.
Umberto Boccioni's parents were ”morcianesi”, and it's
Unfortunately very few historical remnants of San Gregorio's Abbey in Conca (founded around the eleventh century by St. Pier Damiani) are left and embedded in buildings of later period. In the ruins are still visible the arches of the Romanesque church (north side) and the Gothic arches dating back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Morciano bears a particular charming thanks to its 17th century town plan and wide streets. The old town arises curiosity for all of its hidden spots, rich in local history like the parish church of San Michele Arcangelo and the chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin of the Graces.
Umberto I Square
This is the old town of Morciano village, where it can be found historic buildings such as the one where Garibaldi spoke to the people in 1859. Right in the center of the square stands a bronze fountain, that recalls one of Umberto Buccioni's sculpture entitled "Development of a Bottle into Space", and the house of the artist's family, a great exponent of the Futurism.
Umberto Boccioni's parents were ”morcianesi”, and it's
this strong link that gave birth to the summery event taking place in Morciano di Romagna: Fu.Mo. - Morcianese Futurism” the extraordinary cultural "three days" event, inspired by Futurist Avant-Garde.
Yet another monument, “The wing flap: tribute to Boccioni”, is shown in the square built in honor of the artist and designed by Eng. V. Gregotti. This last one masterpiece was donated to the town of Morciano by Arnaldo Pomodoro, one of the world's greatest living sculptors, rendering homage to the town that gave him birth. A copy of the sculpture, inspired by the dynamism of Boccioni which Pomodoro considered as "the first great sculpture of the twentieth century", is located in Los Angeles, at the Department of Water and Power.
Hiking along Conca river
Closed to traffic the stretch of Conca river in Morciano has been object of renovation works, open now to relaxing excursions among nature by bike, on foot or on horseback riding.
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Yet another monument, “The wing flap: tribute to Boccioni”, is shown in the square built in honor of the artist and designed by Eng. V. Gregotti. This last one masterpiece was donated to the town of Morciano by Arnaldo Pomodoro, one of the world's greatest living sculptors, rendering homage to the town that gave him birth. A copy of the sculpture, inspired by the dynamism of Boccioni which Pomodoro considered as "the first great sculpture of the twentieth century", is located in Los Angeles, at the Department of Water and Power.
Hiking along Conca river
Closed to traffic the stretch of Conca river in Morciano has been object of renovation works, open now to relaxing excursions among nature by bike, on foot or on horseback riding.
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Morciano
