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SENIGALLIA is an unprepossessing family resort with a good beach and with most of its tourist activity packed into a short season. Primarily a convenient place among locals for beach-lazing and swimming, though not special enough to travel any distance out of your way for, the lido part of town is cheerful enough in a low-key way in July and August though empty outside this period. The town centre focuses on the rickety Foro Annonario , a semicircular Neoclassical marketplace, behind which the imposing thirteenth-century Rocca Roveresca (May-Sept Tues-Sat 9am-1pm & 5-10pm, Sun 9am-1pm; L4000/2.06), built for Federico da Montefeltro's son-in-law by Luciano Laurana, architect of the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, is worth an hour of your time. A somewhat austere exterior is embellished by white stone brackets, while inside airily elegant Renaissance halls stand above an underground warren of vaulted storage rooms and dungeons. It seems that the Rocca was rarely used as a ducal residence - the fireplaces and beautiful spiral staircase show little sign of use. The cells, though, are a different matter: converted from cannon positions when the region fell to the pope, they have diminutive air-holes designed to inflict a slow and agonizing death on their occupants. Fine views are to be had from the towers, built in the fifteenth century when the Adriatic coast was plagued by Turkish bandits. The Rocca overlooks Senigallia's scruffy and dilapidated sixteenth-century Palazzo Ducale , and the more interesting Palazzo Baviera . Now the seat of the comune , it still contains some original furniture and wall coverings, and its ceilings - stuccoed with sixteenth-century scenes from Greek mythology, Roman history and the Old Testament - are, to say the least, sumptuous.
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