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What has Sant 'Elpidio a Mare, a village of fifteen thousand inhabitants located in the rural South of the Marches, and Malta, charming island located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea? In fact the island in question practically nothing. The connection is rather with the Knights of Malta (also known as the Knights Hospitaller or Knights Hospitallers or the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem or Knights of Rhodes). In fact because of this that was completed in the fourteenth century.
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 Torre Gerosolimitana - Sant'Elpidio a Mare - Luglio 2007 |
La
"superba torre"
( "superba torre"
Medaglia, 1692 
), portata a termine nel XIV sec. con il contributo dei Cavalieri Gerosolimitani, altrimenti noti come Cavalieri di Malta, rappresenta per alcuni aspetti il più enigmatico esemplare tra le opere fortificate delle Marche, dal momento che ancor oggi sono molte le ipotesi sul suo significato simbolico e sulla sua effettiva utilità.
), portata a termine nel XIV sec. con il contributo dei Cavalieri Gerosolimitani, altrimenti noti come Cavalieri di Malta, rappresenta per alcuni aspetti il più enigmatico esemplare tra le opere fortificate delle Marche, dal momento che ancor oggi sono molte le ipotesi sul suo significato simbolico e sulla sua effettiva utilità.  |
The tower, built at the city's tallest, rises to about 28 meters 8.20 meters on each side. The square is determined externally with thick outer walls (1.60 meters), consisting of a meticulous brick texture smooth over the entire surface, with cantonal blocks of white limestone over the entire height of the four edges (excluding the parapet top ).
The linearity of the external perimeter is opposed to the structured internal space, characterized scale structure that projects from the four corner pillars on which are grafted the flying buttresses and the result is a planimetric composition is regulated by a central symmetry with a Greek cross. In this regard, it is interesting to note that, by drawing the diagonals passing through the center of the base, drawing a virtual Croce di Malta: You can not know whether this coincidence had been foreseen in the original design of the tower must be remembered that the medieval architecture , particularly that relating to the most educated and wealthy, as it was precisely that of the Knights of Malta, has always been characterized by strong symbolic implications and proportionate. The tower is entered through a door located at ground level, contrary to the most common types of inputs with a high altitude (pusterla), the opening round arch, with crowning polished brick, was then modified by the insertion of the bezel sculpted. On the home front is seen a double ring polished bricks decorating the pointed arches of the entrance arch, the use of polished brick rings also marks all the mullioned windows of the lower part of the tower. At the entrance there are also a slit high on the west side, then buffered, and a trapdoor on the floor, revealing the presence of a barrel-vaulted basement in which, during cleaning, were found remains of human bones . To the right of ha inizio la scala generata da un corpo unico strutturale, un arco rampante che, ruotato di 90° e alzato di circa 140 cm, in assenza completa di piani, aggiunti solo in epoca moderna per posizionare l'orologio e il serbatoio poi smantellato, conduce senza interruzioni dal piano terreno alla battagliera. La salita avviene tra il muro perimetrale e un alto parapetto, peraltro oggi in parte demolito (diverse file di mattoni sono state divelte) e tale da consentire l'affaccio sul vuoto interno, diversamente dal disegno originario. Con ogni probabilità, infatti, il percorso senza vie di fuga per l'occhio umano doveva rappresentare una sorta di mistica ascesa verso Dio con la sola guida della luce proveniente dalle scarse feritoie, orientate per illuminare the ramps from and to facilitate the advancement only; by contrast, the descent was to be quite uncomfortable because the light is received from the rear. Although the tower over the centuries has been used for the purpose of sighting and control of the Adriatic coast, the achievement of a higher purpose, which is to undertake the visitor to experience high mental effort appears to have been the underlying purpose to its construction, especially given the fact that the means of implementation and its principal features not seen in any functional way fees (excluding ramp) the practice of fortifying typical time for which the basic requirement of the spatial organization was utility instead. The barrel vault that encloses the interior space creates the glacis and education is indeed a last resort, an afterthought or a requirement that manufacturers have had to adopt during the construction of the building. In fact, are already set to the usual scheme other three flights left unfinished or perhaps demolished to realize the time of closing. The devices
sculptural
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The identification element of the tower is, however, the white eight-pointed cross, placed on a hill and surrounded by six gemmature, which with its strong symbolism remains the unequivocal evidence of the presence of the Order of Jerusalem: the gemmature represent, in fact, the fruit benefits from the presence of the Knights Elpidiense on the hill, while the eight points represent the eight beatitudes, in allusion to the "Sermon on the Mount of the Gospel of Matthew. The arm is set with a pink top. The south elevation (to the Collegiate) contains episodes of the highest spiritual value. Above, on axis with the entrance to the tower, there is a bas-relief format dall'incastrarsi of six pieces of sandstone and focused on the figure of the Holy Grail surmounted by a tree, under siege right and left two wild animals. Have been made different assumptions about the meaning to be attached to the sculpture: it seems that the most likely refers to a literal interpretation of the representation under which the chalice, symbol of Christ's passion and source of life, the beasts that symbolize the triumph of evil and that beset on all sides of the object; the tree (maybe a screw) may be a call to the Gospel text where Jesus says "I am the vine, ye are the branches."
Lunetta is located on the main door of the south tower - Torre Jerusalem - Sant 'Elpidio a Mare
In epoca più recente è stata inserita sopra il portone d'ingresso una lunetta di chiara origine preromanica proveniente, seconda una tradizione non verificabile, dall'Abbazia Imperiale di Santa Croce al Chienti (zona Casette d'Ete) e simboleggiante il "Christus Triumphans", posto sulla croce che poggia sulla groppa di un animale accosciato, incluso in una folta ornamentazione a ramages.
Di carattere decisamente laico sono, invece, gli elementi della fronte est inseriti sotto la Croce: l'orologio meccanico presente almeno dalla seconda metà del Seicento, l'altare all'Unità d'Italia (1893) che presenta i volti di Vittorio Emanuele II, Cavour, Garibaldi e Mazzini ed una lapide che ricorda le gesta che portarono all'unità national.
.  The tower, which in the Middle Ages represented the highest testimony to the presence of the Knights, taking a strong mystical and religious with the modern age has become the symbol of Civitas, the element on which reflect the values \u200b\u200bshared by the municipality. |
arch formed by three lobes (an ornamental element in the shape of the frame round arch of the Gothic arches and Moorish.
Cantonale :  Corner |
| date facilities to obtain the shapes requests and track assembly. |
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Arc with emphasis on upper surface of uniform thickness throughout its tour.
Sources:
"Castles, fortresses, towers, fortified walls of the Marches. Vol.4 ", M. Mauro, G. Trivellini, 1997. " My country, No. 9 - The voice of the Marches ", I. Palmucci, G. Patrignani.
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