Fano - a popular seaside resort on the Adriatic coast of Italy, the third largest city in the Marche region after Ancona and Pesaro. According to the latest census, it is home to about 65 thousand people.

Fano stands on the very spot where the ancient Via Flaminia road goes to the Adriatic Sea. In Roman times the city was known as Fanum Fortunae - Temple Fortune. Here we lived retired soldiers of the Roman Empire. By order of the emperor Octavian Augustus in Fano were built defensive walls, some of which survives to this day, and triple arch, also survived.

After the attack the Ostrogoths in the first half of the 6th century Fano became part of the Byzantine Empire, and later became part of the Exarchate of Ravenna as the center of the Maritime Pentapolis, which also consisted of Rimini, Pesaro, Senigallia and Ancona. In the 15th century the city usually Malatesta family, one of whose representatives - Sigismund Pandolfo - built a fortress here. Fano then became part of the Papal States. It was on the initiative of Pope Pius V in the 17th century was built marina, which is in the First World War, has undergone a massive bombing. Even more terrible destruction brought WWII - then destroyed all the old tower and the bell tower of Fano.

Today the surviving monuments of history and architecture of Fano can be viewed, for example, the castle Rocca Malatestiana, the oldest parts of which belong to suschestvovashemu here earlier buildings of ancient Rome or the palace Corte Malatestiana built in the second half of the 14th century .  The latter is a huge hall with vaulted ceilings, the former is probably the first part of the residence of the Malatesta family, and a small tower .  From the original building survived lancet windows in Gothic style staircase and a covered gallery .  Korte with a modern bridge connected to another palace Fano - Palazzo del Podesta 13th century within which today houses the Archaeological Museum and Art Gallery .  Among the religious buildings stand Fano Cathedral of the 12th century, the church of San Francesco with the tomb of Pandolfo III Malatesta and his wife Paola Bianchi, Santamarianuova 16th century with the works of the great Perugino and San Paterniano 16th century .  Outside the city in the town Bellokki stands the church of San Sebastiano, which is used for building materials from the ancient cathedral .