Fermo, the new province

Fermo, this beautiful town between the province of Macerata and Ascoli Piceno, is about to become a province itself. Historically, it's more than true that Fermo has always played alone, and experienced a period of "brightness" when Felice Peretti became Pope with the name of Sisto V (1585-1590). Afterwards, Fermo knew a very dark period under the State of the Church, and flourished over the last 30 years thanks to the ability of its inhabitants in making shoes. Montegranaro, Sant'Elpidio a Mare and Casette d'Ete draw the "triangle of the shoes", with factories of Tod's, Cesare Paciotti (in Civitanova), Laura Biagiotti, Docksteps, Silvano Mazza (Prada's designer), Roberto Botticelli simply next to each other.

That's why Fermo applied to become an independent province.

Fermo has a beautiful city centre. I wrote about it in Italian, there should be said a lot of things about it. What I want to show you, however, is this picture, taken from the washroom of the City Hall (a historical Palace just in the main square, Piazza del Popolo)!

If this is the view from a washroom, think how beautiful could be the view from the Piazza del Girfalco, the highest square of the town, where the cathedral is placed...