Sources

In the early seventeenth century, in a period of great drought, during which had lost the second vein that supplied water to the major source located near Corinaldo in the North, the corinaldesi, writes Vincenzo Maria Cimarelli in his Histories of the Duchy of Urbino, published in Brescia in 1642 ordered to make two large underground quarries, that in the bowels of the joint hills to great space turned and being completed the opra, and found the lost vein, easily to the source reduced it, which runs in so much copy, That never for the old man in which we want a greater drought, has seen itself completely diminished. It was on that occasion that the construction of the large public wash house was provided. The same Cimarelli writes that adduces the water as a result of the works mentioned above with three bronze vents continuously gushing, for the public benefit in a washhouse spread, that there with art, and with mathematical drawings, the year 1603, was at the expense of the Municipality build, not less vague, than sumptuous, and wide, with beautiful porches, that from every side turning it, useful together they render: testifying always the greatness of the generous soul of the modern citizens, that they fabricated it with it big expense”. The building was able to meet the needs of the local population for over three centuries until, in the thirties of the twentieth century, the large central tank was eliminated, replaced by the current tanks however ensuring the faithful and complete restoration of all the remaining building. The architectural relief of the structure has not gone unnoticed even in recent times and so the architect Gianni Volpe in 1999 in the volume edited by him and entitled Cloisters, courtyards and courts of the Marche, defines the Sources a monumental example of rural hydraulic architecture and briefly traces the historical events.