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The Museums are organized into two main sections.
The art gallery collects works by primitive Venetian, Emilian and Tuscan artists, the collection of the Bolognese Hercolani family and other local noble families, as well as paintings from churches in Pesaro and the surrounding area. The main attractions are: “The Coronation of the Virgin” by Giovanni Bellini (1430/35 – 1516), crucial work of the great Venetian painter, and “The Fall of the Giants” by Guido Reni (1575 – 1642).
The section dedicated to ceramics can be considered one of the most important of its kind at a European level, in particular for the quality and quantity of sixteenth-century majolica. Also noteworthy are the 18th century pieces decorated with floral motifs.
Gioachino Rossini was born there, in a room on the first floor, on 29th February 1792. The house has a fifteenth-century layout with additions and modifications dating back to the eighteenth century. The essential core of the Rossini museum, set up on the ground floor, first and second floors of the house, is made up of a collection of nineteenth-century prints donated by Alfonse Hubert Martel from Paris and other memories and memorabilia connected to the life and artistic activity of the Master.
The Romanesque-Gothic façade dates back to the 13th century. The construction began at the end of the 1200s and was completed in the mid-14th century with the completion of the bell tower. The architecture of the Cathedral was modified several times over time and in the second half of the 19th century the inside was completely rebuilt, taking on the present neoclassical style appearance.
There are two mosaic floors, at different heights: the first mosaic, at the depth of 2.10 m. from the modern floor, belongs to the early Christian church destroyed by Vitiges at the beginning of the Gothic War (535 AD); the second mosaic, placed at 1.60 m. under the modern floor, has a layout dating back to the 6th century, based on an inscription found at the entrance to the basilica during the excavation works begun in 1990. Parts of the upper mosaic date back to the 12th century.
The mosaics of the Cathedral are a unique synthesis of figurative expressions that show the stratification of religious and social history from the 6th to the 13th century, from the Byzantine eastern influence to the rising European nations. In that period Pesaro was halfway along the route followed by pilgrims and crusaders from Europe towards the East and Jerusalem. The mosaic floor of the Cathedral bear resemblance with decorative themes of the church of San Marco in Venice (11th-12th century), the cathedral of Termoli (late 11th – early 12th century) and the cathedrals of Otranto, Brindisi and Santa Maria a San Nicola in the Tremiti islands.
It is the most important Renaissance building in the historic center. The structure was modified several times but the origins date back to the time of the Malatesta family; the main façade of the residence overlooking the Piazza del Popolo was built by Alessandro Sforza in the mid-15th century.
The inside is the result of interventions carried out over a century by the Della Rovere family, who succeeded the Sforza in 1513: the Metaurense Hall shows an impressive wooden ceiling with Della Rovere’s decorations; the ducal apartments and the loggia of the secret garden are decorated with valuable frescoes and stuccoes. The guest apartments are sumptuously furnished, decorated with frescoes by Romolo Liverani and enriched with paintings from various periods.
It probably dates back to the beginning of the 17th century. Located in the heart of the ancient Jewish quarter, in the center of the old city, the building does not have any external signs indicating it as a place of worship.
Inside, a glass window opens onto a back courtyard, which in turn leads to a small room, perhaps a storage room for books and papers that were no longer usable. The large rooms on the ground floor show a tub for ritual ablutions, an oven for cooking unleavened bread and a well. The worship hall, with its typical bifocal structure, is placed on the first floor, while two poorly preserved mural paintings depicting Jerusalem and the Jewish camp at the foot of Mount Sinai can be seen at the sides of the balcony gallery.
G. Rossini State Conservatory, Liberty Villa “Ruggeri”, Great Sphere by A. Pomodoro, Church of S. Agostino, Church of S. Domenico, Church of S. Maria delle Grazie, Roman Walls, Church of the Name of God, National Museum Rossini, Rossini Theatre, Diocesan Museum, San Bartolo Park.