Marotta
- The shore of Marotta
- The railway station
- Kennedy Square
Marotta – Town of Mondolfo
Ancient name: La Vecchia Osteria (The Old Tavern)
Patron: Saint Joseph, Patron of the resort of Marotta - March 19
Height: 4 meters above sea-level
Easy to reach through the exit of the A/14 toll-gate, the seaside resort of Marotta characterizes itself for the easy accessibility to the seaside area and to its structures. A road system studied in details allows, in fact, the visitor to find easily his bearings and join important services, such as: medical guard’s seat also for tourists, the local seat of the Italian Red Cross, a Campus for sport structures (Palace sport, gymnasium, bowling, polyvalent centre), two different points of tourist information (the Railway Station, used also as delegation of the Town Police, and Villa Valentina – House of Tourism, that contains also the Centre of Contemporary Art, a real tourist Open Space), the Informagiovani seat and the seat of the harbour-master’s office that, as it is armed with a life-boat, offers, during the summer, the services of sea-rescue and control of the coast of the town territory. We have also to remember the harmonious recovery of the main avenue, called “Carducci Avenue”, and of two squares: Rome Square and Kennedy Square; this latter, recently restored, is the pride of our town. The beach, differently used and characterized by the recovery of a small pier, which is become one of the main points of attraction, offers ample facilities for tourists, modern and effective establishments and allows to be used freely: it is about a policy desired by our town, that has always guaranteed careful welfare services for these free areas through the rescue service. From the point of view of the road safety, it has been paid particular attention to the road traffic in order to assure an adequate defense to: pedestrians, thanks to the pedestrian ways’ reconstruction; cyclists, for the possibility to use cycle-paths along the promenade and the avenues; motorists, with easy car park solutions. The efforts of the town administration are addressed also to the theme of environment defense: the presence of an efficient water-softener, the beginning of the separate waste collection, which is going to involve first the tourist activities, the attention and information in the educational field with the involving of schools in the Agenda 21 project and other campaigns that propose to make the citizen aware of the environment question. Such attention is emphasized also by many operators that have transformed their activity in important points of reference, as concerns biological food and the typical products of the whole Cesano Valley, of which the town of Mondolfo feels honoured to be the leader. Such a diligence has led to the willingness of a confront abroad, returning to the path of twinning, in particular with the city of Iffezheim, which is situated in the province of Rastatt, in Germany: it has always been the favourite partner of our region and the province of Pesaro and Urbino.
Historic references about the resort:
Without lingering over questions discussed in the extreme, such as the place where the troops of Asdrubale, Hannibal’s brother, were defeated by the Roman army during the Battle of Metauro (207 b.C.) which could have seen crucial phases also in Marotta, however, we can be sure that this resort was visited during the Roman epoch, as attests an ancient tank which stands here. But it is with the building of a station for the changing horses, along the road that covered the coast from Fano to Senigallia, that rose in Marotta an activity widely documented from the XVI century. The station, which was called “La Vecchia Osteria” (The Old Tavern), thus naming also the place, was a solid building with a pavilion roof, with 3 arches on the façade that introduced in the coach-house, where could stay up to 6 stage-coaches, and next to the coach-house there was a stable, able to contain about 30 horses. Here, also some troops coming from Mondolfo Castle could quarter. But Marotta became the modern seaside resort, today widely appreciated, thanks to the building of the station Ancona-Bologna, along the Adriatic papal coast, desired by Pope Pio IX in 1846. In 1884 the town of Mondolfo built, at its own expense, the Station of Mondolfo-Marotta that, in a few years, became not only point of reference for trade and travelers: the village of fishermen cultivated soon its own ingrained seaside vocation.
