Áudio tour Lapedona Village

Lapedona is a medieval hill town. Finds from the Picena and Roman ages testify to an intense colonization of the territory since ancient times.
But it is in the Lombard period that the presence of the Benedictines, especially of the Farfense community, extended there and the authority of the Bishop of Fermo gradually increases there; and throughout the territory of the Marca Stop, churches, courts, and feudal castles begin to rise.
The oldest code in the Fermo Archive, the Liber Jurium Episcopatus Firmi, known as Code 1030, contains documents that give information about the two castles of San Martino and Saltareccio, which today represent two references outside the walls.
The first time the name of Lapedona appears is in a document from 1148 when, the Bishop of Fermo, Liberato, confirms at the hermitage of Santa Croce di Fonte Avellana the possession of churches and goods in the diocese of Fermo , including the church of San Quirico intra castellum qui dicitur Lapedona.
From the few references, there are no documents that attest to the period of foundation of the current inhabited center. However, none of the churches present in the current country appears in the lists of tithes before 1299, only in 1302 there was news of the church of San Giacomo and a plaque that, remembered in the reports of pastoral visits in 1728 and 1842, attested that the construction of the church of San Giacomo had been completed in 1321.
Some scholars hypothesize that the original Lapedona castle included the church of San Quirico and that, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, the current historic center arose, with the phenomenon of embedding and the transfer of the rural titles of churches. The Lapedone castrum is included in the list of castles that Aldobrandino d'Este, Marquis of Ancona, assigns to the city of Fermo on 10 June 1214 “cum hominibus in dictis castellis habitantibus et eorum podiis et villis”, but the actual dependence on Fermo di Lapedona and the nearby castles, is to be referred rather to 1238, when the bishop Count of Fermo Filippo Secondo entrusts all the properties of the church to the municipality, from Potenza river in the north to the Tronto in the south.
From that year on, Lapedona became the castle of the city of Fermo and follows its alternating events.