Fortress
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The castle of Moresco, known for its strategic
position and for the peculiarity of its tower, stands on a
hilltop overlooking the important crossroad underneath where
three main communication roads meet and then head to all
directions: from the Asa valley, from the city of Fermo from the
coast towards Monterubbiano, towards Montefiore and towards
Southern Italy.
The catle, completally surrounded by walls, is in
the shape of triangle with an imposing heptagonal tower at its
vertex. A smaller tower, called of "dell'Orologio",
overlooks the town entrance gate, placed next to an elegant
portico of the sixteenth century. A second gate was opened in a
later time on the south-west side.
Inside the town wall, three parallel streets meet
on the square of the ancient castle thus separating the group of
modest houses built in a row.
The square was enlarged last century following the
demolition of a group of houses and of the old parish church of
which only an aisle with fresco is left in the open air.
On the outern side two small villages have risen.
The tower, built or rebuilt in the fourteenth
century, has the perimeter 29 metres long with seven irregular
sides and it is 25 metres high. The walls are 3 metres thick at
the base and 1,20 m. on the top as they must support the vaulted
roof. During the 1918 restoration the original covering on the
top was replaced by ghibelline merlons and the large windows,
opened in the sixteenth century when the tower was used as a
bell-tower, were walled up.
