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Maltigano in the Province of Ascoli Piceno

The origin of Maltignano can be placed between 90 and 89 a.C., when its territory was donated to a Roman duumvir: Publio Maltino Basso, from whom the town derived its name. For many centuries Maltignano remained a mere patrician private possession, probably a kind of country house. Later on, its name reappeared in documents in the year 800, when Charlemagne (Carlo Magno) donated this property to the Capitolo (the Council of Canonicals used by the Bishop to administer the diocese) of the Church of Ascoli. Thus Maltignano became a Barony, a peculiar which gave the town a unique role within the Medieval institutional panorama.

Not very much remains today of the old inhabited nucleus, which before XVth-XVIth centuries was concentrated around the Castle and the little St. Maria Church located in its interior. Such remains are limited to parts of the tower, city walls and the entrance to Porta Marina.

St. Maria Church, named S. Maria delle Grazie after being rebuilt in 1947, houses a precious golden cross, from the XVIth century.
Last but not least, Maltignano is to be remembered as the birthplace of a famous master of wood carving, Giovanni di Matteo Colucci, creator of the important chorus of the Ascoli Cathedral, realized in 1448.

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