From June – until the end of September -, thesummer opening hours of the Synagogue in via delle Scuole: this suggestive place in the city center is open to visits every Thursday afternoon from 5pm to 8pm. Entrance is free
The opening is promoted byMunicipality Beauty Department and from Pescheria Foundation – Visual Arts Center in collaboration with the Delegation of Pesaro and Urbino of the FAI Italian Environment Fund, now an ‘institutional’ partner of the Administration in the valorisation of the synagogue.
Built in the 16th century and transformed in the 17th and 18th centuries, the synagogue was inserted into the urban fabric of the ghetto without signs of particular distinction for obvious security reasons. On the ground floor there is the oven for unleavened bread for Easter, the tub for purification baths, the well; at the end of the corridor is the hand washing fountain before entering the Prayer Room on the first floor. Here the Holy Ark (even if the ‘sacred wardrobe’ is now in Livorno) and the Pulpit (Tevàh) face each other in the center of the shorter walls. The ceiling is decorated in stucco with rosettes and oak wreaths, a clear homage by the Jews to the Della Rovere family, lords of Pesaro to whom they owed decades of well-being and tranquility. The visit to the synagogue is a precious opportunity to admire a site that still bears witness to the traces of a people who chose Pesaro as their seat, helping to define its cultural, civil and economic identity.
However, the other place on the Jewish route in Pesaro cannot be visited: we are talking about the cemetery in the greenery of San Bartolo Park waiting to be reopened to the public after a series of extraordinary maintenance works.
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