Amelia is located in a still integral territory ecologically that is characterized by the harmonic alternancia of agricultural cultures, vineyards, olive trees and forests. This locality occupies a surface of 133 km ² and has about 11,215 inhabitants.
Amelia conserves, still today, his old ones and powerful walls pertaining to the centuries VI-IV a.C.
The oldest part of these walls is of the preRoman period and they are located inside the present historical center where they rise to both sides of the Roman Door, the most imposing and modern entrance of the urban nucleus (century XVI). The walls of Amelia are the fruit of the ingenious work of the local constructors who carried out them with the single sobreposition of stones and without use of no type of cement.
Another important monument is the Church of San Francisco of 1287 that in century XIV was united to the convent of the smaller friars, and where the Geraldini chapel can be visited in that are the tombs of Matteo and Elisabetta, carved by Agostino I gave Duccio. The area of the convent, Boccarini ex--school, today welcomes the Archeológico Museum and the Communal Pinacoteca.
Between the important ecclesiastical buildings, also we found the Church of San Agostino of the century XIII that presents/displays a facade of Romanesque-gothic style.
Finally, in the benedictine monastery of San Magno conseva the precious Organ of San Magno of 1680, only instrument with double perfectly recovered keyboard. In fact, the city of Amelia has seven historical organs and due to this richeza of old musical instruments the Academy of the Art Organaria Umbra, related to the Associazione Umbra has been founded.
Not very far from Amelia is the gorgeous natural park called “Oasi I gave Alviano”, uncontaminated habitat directed by the WWF.
Another very interesting place is the Foresta Fossile, located to 42 km of Amelia, near Avigliano Umbro (Roman locality of origin), in the locality of Dunarobba, that constitutes one of the more important fossil forests of the world. Formerly, this zone, of tropical climate, was occupied by the Tiberino lake that were the natural habitat of hipopotamos, giant elephants and sequoyas. In this place a unique and special natural museum can be contemplated that allows to know the ancestors present the Sequoias sempervirens which today we can find in the americado park of Yellowstone.
The zone was covered, throughout the successive centuries, by sediments and clays that have allowed their conservation until today.
What is truely surprising is that the trees have conserved themselves in wood form instead of petrifying itself as it happens normally to other types of fossils.
In this place a unique and special natural museum can be contemplated that allows to know the ancestors present the Sequoias sempervirens which today we can find in the americado park of Yellowstone.