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OPTOx has its seat in Montegiorgio, Marche Region, in the “fermano” territory so called because of its closeness to the town of Fermo, above all from the historical point of view.
Montegiorgio is a small Commune of Ascoli Piceno province famous for its racecourse, known at international level, where some of the most important Italian horse races take place.
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Fermo’s origins are pre-Roman; the town was founded by the Piceni (people descending from the Sabini) around the 10th century b.C.
It is also an important industrial pole and typical beach resort with 8 kilometres of beach. Its territory, from the vast medieval Marca, has become more and more narrow and now Fermo is capital of a small territory with 40 Communes and 110.000 inhabitants.
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| The Town Library all is located' inside of the Palace of the Studies and is the most rich of the Marks, among the first ten of Italy. The origins of the Library go back to 1511, but was officially been based on in 1688. Successive donations for quantity and quality of volumes, confer to the Library a considerable importance. L' ancient seat of the Library is the Room of the Globe, entirely decorated in wood of walnut, in which the original unit of the Library is preserved. The room so is named for the presence of a large globe operates by a venetian cartograph Silvestro Amanzio Moroncelli dated 1712, that it is matched with the splendid wooden ceiling rich of baroque decorations. In the library there are 128 codes, more of 400.000 volumes, 686 incunaboli, 15.000 "Sixteenth century", 6000 well-known printings of authors and beyond 2000 drawings. |
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