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Sirolo
is the most attractive, with a spruce medieval centre
and a tree-lined, balcony piazza that teeters high
above the sea. The small town is in the middle of
Conero. The Greeks were the first "tourists".
Those visitors from a far found everything that they
were searching for in the mountain that seemed to
emerge from the sea: a safe piace to dock and repair
their ships in silent solitary bays, and a natural
reserve of abundant fauna. Today it is headquarters
to the Regional Park, the visitor must pass through
a small forest to reach its small but enchanting beaches.
A grand appointment that is spectacular summer holds
in store for this area: a theatrical review, staged
in an old quarry converted into an arena. This small
town is very elegant. Many famous people come to spend
their Summer here.
The
most renowned places are its Belvedere Square, the
church of Santissimo Sacramento (with a bas-relief
of the 15th-century carved in its small portal), the
"Grotta Urbani" and the "Due
Sorelle" which can be reached only by boat.
As far as concerns the "Due Sorelle", they
can be considered as sort of distant relatives to
the famous Faraglioni of Capri and are one of the
most traditional destination for tourists.
Historic Notes: the town's origins date back to remote
times, which recent archaeological finds date back
to over one hundred thousand years ago. According
to tradition the name comes from Sirio, a mediaeval
condottiere who received as a gift the site on which
the castle was built by Belisarius, after the victory
over the Goths in 560. The area was already inhabited
in Roman times, as a dependence of the municipium
of Umana. Around the eleventh century it was fortified
by the Cortesi family.
Monuments: Abbey of San Pietro al Conero, Church of
the Madonna del Rosario, Parish church of San Nicolò,
mediaeval walls with the Torrione, Teatro Cortesi,
Villa Vetta Marina, streets of the old town centre.
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