The city of Cingoli rises at the top of the Mount Circe facing an enchanting natural panorama stretching from Adriatic sea to Mount Conero.
It has an ancient history but the first traces of settlement go back to the II century B.C. when the settlement “Cingulum” was founded by the Romans to act as a military colony.
In the year 62 B.C., Tito Labieno, Roman tribune and Caius Julius Caesar's lieutenant, was born in Cingoli, who ordered the fortification and restoration of Cingulum's dwellings.
Of this ancient Roman city, situated on a lower level of the present borgo named St. Lorenzo, two stretches of the ancient defensive walls can still be admired. An important municipium in the Augustan era, numbered among the Velina tribe, with the VI and VII centuries underwent heavy destruction by the Goths and Longobards.
Transformed into feud by Bishop Osimo, the town achieved free commune status only in the second half of the XII century, beginning to develop and excel in the flourishing artisan, commercial, artistic crafts. During this era, the neighbouring communes of Castreccioni and Civitella were annexed and so began the struggles against the cities of Osimo and St. Severino.
Being of Guelph extraction, the city was first placed under the Cima family and successively annexed to the Pontifical State, for which it faced strong tensions and violent internal strife. In the second half of the XIV century, Cingoli obtained new statutes which increased the influence of the local aristocracy (families named Cima, Mainetti, Silvestri, Castiglioni, Raffaelli, Simonetti), over the life of the city.
The advent of the Renaissance signalled a phase of maximum growths and urban development for the town.
In 1725, thanks to the distinction achieved, it obtained the restoration of the cathedral as well as the title of “city”.
In 1761 Francesco Saverio Castiglioni, elected Pope name Pius VIII in 1829, was born here.
In 1861 it became part and parcel of the reign of Italy. 

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