Down in the valley lay Suasa, a Roman town with its amphitheatre, its theatre and its forum. After the Gothic war the people left it — the valley floor could not be defended — and went up into the hills; the abandoned city became a quarry: its stones were burnt for lime and everything portable was carried off. Then, within a few years, the rains brought down from the hills enough mud to bury it. Only the amphitheatre stayed in sight, half sunk in clay.
The medieval village was called Conocla, for the cone of its hill: first written down in January 1186. The digging began in 1987 and gave back the basalt street, the forum, the amphitheatre and the great house of the Coiedii. The people here were known as onion growers, and the onion still has its feast at the start of September.
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📅 Every year, on 29 April
On 29 April Castelleone di Suasa, a municipality of 1,702 inhabitants in the province of Ancona, celebrates Saint Peter of Verona, titular of the parish; Saint Francis of Paola is co-patron.
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Outside Castelleone di Suasa, but an easy day trip away.
