Inhabitants in1991 : 1,525
The Municipal territory of Sestino, extends for 80,46 square kilometres
in the high basin of the river Foglia, on the Adriatic side of the Tosco-Marchigiano
Apennines. Roman Municipality, then feudal centre, then Vicariate,
it became Podesta Seat of Office in the Mediceo State. Sestino,
oppidum (encampment) of Roman origins (a collection of
archaeological finds - honour and funeral memorials, epigraphs, coins
and clay articles - is held in the Antiquarium Sestinate), which during
the Punic Wars defended the pass between Arezzo
and the Romagna inside the province of the Pennine Alps, being part of
the Ravenna Exarchate and then of the Duchy of Spoleto
and in 962, according to a dubious certificate by Ottone I passed
to the noble family Carpegna. Included during the X I century
in the Montefeltro diocese. At the beginning of the XIII
century it was the property of the church included in the province
of Massa Trabaria and as such conceded as Vicariate to Dadeo da Casteldelci
ancestor of Uguccione della Faggiola. With the Peace of Sarzana in
1353 Sestino and part of its territory became confirmed to the Faggiola
and then in 1371 assigned by Pope Gregorio XI to the Malatesta
who were Lords over it for about a century. Fallen under the power of
Federico da Montefeltro in 1463, two years later Sestino
was raised to Autonomous Vicariate by Pope Paolo I and successively,
as part of the Duchy of Urbino, it was given as an investment
from Leone X to his nephew Lorenzo dei Medici (1516). Devastated
a year later by the militia of the deposed Francesco Maria della Rovere,
Sestino entered definitely in the possession of the Fiorentina republic,
which they acquired from Leone X in 1520 as part exchange to settle
a debt incurred by the Pontiff with the Fiornetini Bankers. Since
then it was a Podesta Seat of Office, and a Vicariate with civil and
criminal jurisdiction over the surrounding territory.
Historical info reproduced upon authorization of Regione Toscana - Dipartimento della Presidenza E Affari Legislativi e Giuridici
Translated by Ann Mountford
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