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Don’t miss the gateway frescoes!!
Trekki Says: Oh yes, the gateway beneath Palazzo del Podestá! It is worth a closer look. It must have looked marvellous after completion in 13-14th century. Now, maybe due to the earthquake and emissions, only part of its magnificent frescoes are left. I have read that they depict scenes...
A familiar fountain at the main piazza
Trekki Says: Piazza del Comune is Fabriano’s main plaza and actually a beautiful one (even in the cloudy April 2008 weather). There is Palazzo del Comune (of 1350, municipaliyt, photo 3) and opposite the former bishop’s Palazzo Vescovile with the Torre Civico (photo 5). But the...
Fascinating loggia with a view and frescoes
Trekki Says: These kinds of loggias are very much prominent throughout almost all Italy but somehow I liked this best of all the ones I saw. It is elevated (first floor) and sits on what houses cafes and the tourist office today. It has 19 arches in total, some have been added later than...
Baroque Cattedrale S. Venanzio
Trekki Says: Opposite of the Pinacoteca Civile is Fabriano’s duomo. From the outside it looks like most of the Italian churches from 14th century, but the inside is very much surprising: pure baroque with overly decorated white walls and pillars and very colourful paintings.One remark,...
Oh holy paper – Museo della carta
Trekki Says: .. e della filigrana (which is the full name of this museum).When it comes to pilgrimages, Christians go to the Vatican, Muslims go to Mecca, Buddhists would go to Tibet if it would still exist (and not be massacred by Dragonland) and I go to the cradles of...
Trekki Says: While I was wandering through Fabriano, I found this house next to the duomo. It reminded me immediately of Christine’s mysterious house in Mannheim, as it has similar friezes above the windows. They all depict scenes, most probably of Fabriano’s history (what else…). But as...
Pinacoteca Civica, magnificent religious art
Trekki Says: This is an example of the very much unexpected gems Fabriano has to offer. The nice girl at the tourist office highly recommended to visit this museum and I am glad I did. The collection was brought together in 1862 and was moved to the Ex Ospedale di S. Maria del Buon Gesú...
Grotte di Frasassi – fantastic cave world!
Trekki Says: soonWhen I was planning my trip to central Italy, I came across a book that mentioned Grotte di Frasassi as the biggest limestone cave complex in Italy and most probably of Europe. It was only discovered “recently”, 1975, and is still being investigated by speleologists....
Trattoria Marcellini: Trattoria Marcellini, very good value
Trekki Says: I only had dinner once while I was in Fabriano and this was here at Trattoria Marcellini. I can definitely recommend it, as it is excellent value and good food. The interior is quite simple and rather bright inside, but this did not matter anymore once the food arrived. They...
Nice café and pastries at Piazza del Commune
Trekki Says: Apart from the dinner at Trattoria Marcellini, I lived on snacks and tramezzini while I was in Fabriano (I wasn’t that hungry and often also too tired to sit in a restaurant during the evening). I got these mostly along the road between my hotel in Via Carvour and either...
Trekki Says: Plane:The nearest airport is maybe Ancona’s Falconara airport which is being served by many European airlines but otherwise mostly by flights from Roma. Distance Ancona – Fabriano is approx. 60 km.Train:Eurostar trains between Ancona and Roma stop in Fabriano and there are...
Finest artistic paper products in Fabriano
Trekki Says: Well, I have already mentioned this several times – Fabriano is THE place to buy finest paper and paper art. The best selection is definitely the one in Museo della Carta. I could have bought everything… But I liked these little booklets in my main photo most: the left one...
Trekki Says: If you are like me and like to wander around the backstreets of towns and villages, I can highly recommend to do this extensively in Fabriano as well. I was amazed of how many beautiful partly old frescoes I saw at walls or in little shrines. Many of them have religious...
Blacksmith and its relevance for Fabriano
Trekki Says: While walking through the city, I came across many reliefs of blacksmiths at houses’ walls so I tried to find out their relevance. It seems that it was based on a kind of “mistranslation”: Fabertus was a wealthy Roman man who owned land here during Medieval times. “Faber”...
Parking rules and narrow cities :-)
Trekki Says: If you are here by car, I can only highly recommend to stick to the parking rules. Even in April, very much out of season, I did see many police people walking around and taking notes of wrongly parked cars. On parking areas for example it is forbidden to park caravans. Some...
Bring warm things - if you want to visit the caves
Trekki Says: There is no extra special packing item you need to bring apart from what you usually take on trips.But if you plan to visit the caves of Frasassi, you should bring a warm sweater, as it is cold inside throughout the whole year (as in every cave).
Trekki Says: Some very clever but obviously completely uninformed person once wrote that the first watermark was invented in Bologna and this was copied then into almost all English websites. So most of the Wikipedia descriptions are wrong here (except the Polish, Portugese and French...
Very friendly & knowledgeable tourist office
Trekki Says: I cannot praise Fabriano’s tourist office and initiatives high enough!! The receptionist at Hotel Colegio Gentile suggested that I check there for information material and the like and how glad I am that I did. Many tourist offices worldwide can learn from them (the lousy...
Ongoing restorations after the earthquake
Trekki Says: If you read about Fabriano in any guidebook, I am sure that all information regarding opening hours or “locations” of exhibits are outdated by the time you arrive. This, as Fabriano was very badly hit by the earthquake in 1997 (the one that destroyed parts of basilica San...
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Fabriano - oh holy paper and watermark :-))
Imagine you have started your long needed holidays in Italy. Imagine in the early part of these days you are in a rather unknown little city in middle Italy and it rains cats and dogs. But you feel......
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In this city everything turns around the production of paper. It has the biggest plant were paper it is produced in Italy and I guess in Europe.
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