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Rocca Roveresca

Italy · 15th century

Founded
1480
Style
Renaissance architecture
Heritage status
Italian national heritage
Location
Senigallia
Visitors
≈30,000 (2022)
Coordinates
43.71526°, 13.2204°
Links
OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
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Rocca Roveresca in Italy
Photo: Andréa Césanelli · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Rocca di Senigallia, also known as Rocca Roveresca, from the name of its patrons, the Della Rovere, is located in Senigallia, in the Marche, in the province of Ancona, and is one of the most important monuments of the city and of the region: it hosts exhibitions and musical and artistic events. In 2015 it recorded 46 090 visitors.

Since December 2014 the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities has managed it through the Polo museale delle Marche, which in December 2019 became the Direzione regionale Musei.

Machine-translated from “Rocca Roveresca (Senigallia)” on the Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Rocca Roveresca ranks #6,758 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #475 of the 624 mapped in Italy. Founded 1480, it is older than 45% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 596 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. Wikidata records about 30,000 visitors in 2022. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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