Caldarola owes its name to the Latin term “CALIDARIUM” which was the stretch of hot water in the thermal baths. The local tradition says that the origins of the town date back to the IV century AD, when a group of Christians, escaping persecution, arrived in the “Colle del Cuculo – Colcù” (the hill of the cuckoo), established a first urban nucleus. However, with more probabilities the centre of the town arose as a rural village, at the foot of a defence tower, Langobardic or Byzantine, previously of the IX-X century.

At the end of the XII century, the medieval history sees the territory of Caldarola involved in the fight between Papacy and Empire: the pontiffs, to ensure the loyalty of Camerino, granted it as a feud to the Camerte State. Only at the beginning of 1400s did the town manage to gain the independence ratified by the seal of emancipation of Eugenio IV (1434). In the same period emerges the character of “Beato Francesco Piani”, born in Caldarola in 1424, whose main works are (inspired from the Franciscan beliefs) “La compagnia di Santa Maria” and “L’ospedale e il Monte di Pietà”. Preacher and Pacifier of people, died in 1507, beatified from Urbano VII in 1634.

The blossom of Caldarola, by the way, was in 500 by the work of the noble family Pallotta, which transformed the village into a precious renaissance town. The direct subjugation to the Church, of the common of Caldarola, went forward until 1799, year when the papal control was shot down by the French revolution. With the end of the Napoleonic break, the town went back to the Papal State till 1861, when the land of Le Marche became part of the Italian Kingdom.

Caldarola – Le origini

Caldarola – Conte Desiderio Pallotta