Castelfidardo

Castelfidardo
Country	Italy
region	Brands
province	Ancona  (AN)
Coordinates	43 ° 28 '  N , 13 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 28 '0 "  N , 13 ° 33' 0"  E
height	199  m slm
surface	32 km²
Residents	18,658 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	583 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	60022
prefix	071
ISTAT number	042010
Popular name	Fidardensi
Patron saint	Victor and Corona
Website	Castelfidardo

Castelfidardo is an Italian commune in the Marche region , in the province of Ancona , with 18,658 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

The place is best known for the manufacture of accordion instruments . An accordion museum testifies to the development of these instruments. Based on traditional accordion production, electronic organs have also been produced in Castelfidardo and in the surrounding area up to Ancona since the 1960s ( Farfisa , GEM, Orla , Elka , Pari , Antonelli / SIEL, Bontempi and Crumar ).

Places in the vicinity are Loreto , Osimo and Ancona . The place is located on a 199 meter high hill, eight kilometers from the coast. The city goes back to a church with a palace complex.

On September 18, 1860, the Piedmontese troops of General Enrico Cialdini defeated the papal troops of Generals De Pimodan and Lamoricière at the Battle of Castelfidardo .

Candidacy for the 2011 World Cycling Championship

Together with the neighboring municipality of Loreto , Castelfidardo applied to host the 2011 UCI Road World Championships , but lost the bid against Copenhagen .

Castelfidardo in literature

The novel The Green Accordion by Annie Proulx begins with the story of a southern Italian smallholder who, in the chapter The world is a staircase, leaves his village to the north. There he found "work in the accordion workshops of Castelfidardo" .

Web links

Commons : Castelfidardo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references, footnotes

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.