Fermo

Description

Fermo is a town and comune of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo. Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation 319 metres, on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway. The great antiquity of the city is attested by the remains of its cyclopean walls. The ancient Firmum Picenum was founded as a Latin colony, consisting of 6000 men, in 264 BC, after the conquest of the Picentes, as the local headquarters of the Roman power, to which it remained faithful. The cisterns of Fermo are an archaeological site situated on top of the hill, at 310 metres above sea level. Fermo boasts one of the most gigantic and well-preserved example of Roman cisterns in Italy. They have been built around 1st century a.C. The structure is a rectangular construction of about 30 by 70 metres consisting of 30 underground rooms: they provided water for the city probably through public fountains.