Pioraco, "Country Paper"

Pioraco and paper

In Roman times, stood the "Stadium Militaris Romana", now is the paper-Miliani Fedrigoni that uses some energy generated from the Falls River Power and the famous exports valuable paper in many European and non-Europeans.

It was the Chinese around 105 AD who invented the paper. In 751 AD on the banks of the river and the Arabs Tharaz ACQUIRE progioneri by the art of making paper and later provided important technical innovations in the paper industry. The arrival of the paper in Central Asia and Persia makes you start to spread in the Mediterranean countries. The first European production are in Spain in 1150, in Italy in Fabriano, in the first half of 1200 and Pioraco in the early 1300s.

In workshops of Fabriano paper-makers and Pioraco is provided for the improvement of the production process with the adoption of a new processing technique rags, batteries for multiple links, the treatment of waterproofing sheet of paper with gelatin and L ' invention of the watermark.

The watermark is still to prevent counterfeiting of the cards values, especially paper money. In fact, for many years, the paper currency of the Lira was produced propane Pioraco.

Easyancona advises you to visit the workshop of the paper, the Paper Museum and filigree and inside the Palazzo del Comune, fossil museum, a gift from a private collector Commander Offerl Spitoni.

Religious Places in Pioraco

St. Francis Church was built on the ruins of a Roman theater in the fourteenth century.

Church of St. Victorinus, was built with materials from the ruins of a Roman pagan temple. Easyancona advises you to admire a fresco of 1478, the baptismal font of 1646 and the fifteenth century statue of St. Victorinus.

Church of Our Lady of the cave, the building is partially embedded in rock.

Pioraco, Switzerland Marche

Pioraco has been defined by many, Switzerland Marche for its natural beauty and landscapes of great beauty, its healthy climate, the richness of its rivers and the variety of routes.

Easyancona advises the pedestrian route of "Li Vurgacci" that winds around it River Power. The Pit of Monsters is a small ravine, this trail being built by elevated wooden bridges over the river, and take from 10 April to 1 October.

Sefro, mountain village

From Pioraco continue for Sefro, mountain village of interest in wooded landscape. Ideal for walking riding, sport fishing on the pond at the crossroads of the village along the river Agolla p Shortage (tributary of the River Power).

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