Today at 5pm in the small square of the charming village of Torricella Renzo Savelli presents his latest historical effort, a well-documented volume on the history of the castle and the people of the small hamlet of Forsemprona.
Doing the honors with him will be Luca Cangini, responsible for the cultural heritage of the cathedral parish.
The volume has a title that could not be more didactic, “The castle of Torricella di Fossombrone – History of a town and its people”, and is the second in the series that Savelli is dedicating to the castles of the Fossombrone countryside.
“As usual – explains Cangini – Savelli strictly sticks to the sources by putting together a historical overview not without curious elements. The professions were always represented in all the castles but this is not the case. And then interesting things also came out about the sources of support for each community. Renzo discovered that in Torricella there were a certain number of stone quarrymen, stone which was then sold to the stonecutters of Sant’Ippolito. Another curiosity of Torricella is that until the early twentieth century the people she was buried in the ancient church of San Nicolò, which is now a ruin and was outside the town: inside the walls, in the nineteenth century, a new one was built, also dedicated to the saint of the same name. There was no room to build a cemetery and therefore we continued with church burials as before Napoleon (who prohibited them in 1804)…”. The next volume will be dedicated to the castle of Montemontanaro, a small village two kilometers from Montefelcino.
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