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{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                = Jesi
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| official_name       = Città di Jesi<br /><small>''City of Jesi''</small>
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| coordinates         = {{coord|43|31|25|N|13|14|21|E|display=inline,title}}
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| region              = [[Marche]]
| province            = [[Province of Ancona|Ancona]] (AN)
| frazioni            = Mazzangrugno, Castelrosino, Tabano, Santa Lucia
| mayor               = Lorenzo Fiordelmondo 
| mayor_party         = PD; left 
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| elevation_m         = 97
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| area_total_km2      = 107
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| population_as_of    = 31 August 2017
| population_total    = 40251
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| population_demonym  = Jesini
|telephone=0731|postalcode=60035|istat=| saint               = [[Septimius of Iesi|Saint Septimius]]
| day                 = September 22
| website             = comune.jesi.an.it/IlComune/[https://www.comune.jesi.an.it/IlComune/]
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[[File:Jesi-teatropergolesi01.jpg|thumb|240px|Teatro Pergolesi]]
'''Jesi''' ({{IPA|it|ˈjɛːzi|lang}}) is a ''[[comune]]'' (municipality) in the [[province of Ancona]], in the [[Italian region]] of [[Marche]].
[[File:Jesi, Palazzo della Signoria.JPG|thumb|240px|Palazzo della Signoria]]
[[File:Jesi, Mura.JPG|thumb|240px|View of the 14th century walls]]
[[File:Jesi, Duomo.JPG|thumb|upright=0.9|Cathedral (Duomo)]]
[[File:Jesi, palazzo balleani 02 balcone con telamoni.jpg|thumb|240px|Palazzo Balleani]]
It is an important industrial and artistic center in the floodplain on the left (north) bank of the [[Esino]] river, {{convert|17|km}} before its mouth on the [[Adriatic Sea]].

==History==
Jesi (Iesi) was one of the last towns of the [[Umbri]] when, in the 4th century BC, the [[Senones|Senones Gauls]] invaded the area and ousted them. They turned it into a stronghold against the [[Picentes|Piceni]]. In 283 BC the Senones were defeated by the Romans. Jesi in 247 BC became a ''colonia civium romanorum'' with the name of '''''Aesis'''''.

During the fall of the [[Western Roman Empire]], Jesi was ravaged by the troops of [[Odoacer]] (476 AD) and again in 493 by the [[Ostrogoths]] of [[Theodoric the Great]]. After the [[Gothic War (535–554)|Gothic War]], Italy became part of the [[Byzantine Empire]], and Jesi became one of the main centers of the new rulers, and a diocese seat. In 751 it was sacked by the [[Lombards|Lombard]] troops of [[Aistulf]], and later was a [[Carolingian dynasty|Carolingian]] imperial city.

Since 1130, it was an [[medieval commune|independent commune]], gradually expanding its control over its surrounding agrarian region. In December 1194 the future [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II]] was born here:<ref>Norwich, John Julius. ''Byzantium: The Decline and Fall'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf), p. 162</ref> he later made Jesi a "Royal City". In the 14th century it was captured by the [[Papal States|Papal]] vicar [[House of Simonetti#Simonetti of Jesi|Filippo Simonetti]], then by [[Galeotto I Malatesta]] (1347–1351), by [[Braccio da Montone]] in 1408, and by [[Francesco I Sforza]], who turned it into his family's main stronghold in the Marche. In 1447 Jesi was bought by the [[Papal States]].

==Main sights==
===Religious buildings===
*{{ill|Jesi cathedral|it|Duomo di Jesi}}: [[duomo]] built in the 13th-15th centuries. The façade and the Latin cross interior are modern.
*San Floriano: 18th century convent.
*San Marco: [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]], 13th-century church just outside the old city centre. The interior has a nave and two aisles, with a 14th-century fresco by an anonymous Rimini painter.
*Santa Maria delle Grazie: 15th-century church with 17th-century belltower.
*San Nicolò: 13th-century church with Romanesque apse and a Gothic portal.

===Secular buildings===
*The 14th century walls, built following the line of the Roman ones and mostly rebuilt in the 15th century by [[Baccio Pontelli]] and [[Francesco di Giorgio Martini]]. Six towers remain today.
*Palazzo della Signoria, built in 1486–1498 by [[Francesco di Giorgio Martini]]. The angular tower was elevated in 1661 and received a dome, but crumbled down a few years later. Notable is the interior courtyard, with two orders of loggias, partially designed by [[Andrea Sansovino]] from 1519.
*Palazzo Balleani, an example of local [[Baroque architecture]], built from 1720 and designed by Francesco Ferruzzi. The façade has a characteristic balcony supported by four [[Atlas (architecture)|atlases]] (1723). The interior has precious gilded stucco decoration.
*[[Palazzo Pianetti]]: [[Rococo]] palace. The wide façade has exactly one hundred windows, while the interior has a noteworthy ''[[Italian garden|giardino all'italiana]]''. The palace houses the city's civic art gallery, with a series of paintings by the Venetian artist [[Lorenzo Lotto]].
*Palazzo Ricci, finished in 1547. The diamond-like bricks of the façade are inspired to famous [[Palazzo dei Diamanti]] in [[Ferrara]].
*[[Teatro Pergolesi]], built in 1790.

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Jesi}}
*[[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]]
*[[Giancarlo Alessandrini]]
*[[Giuseppe Balducci (composer)|Giuseppe Balducci]], composer
*[[Alice Bellagamba]]
*[[Dionisio Cimarelli]]
*[[Angelo Colocci]]
*[[Elisa Di Francisca]]
*[[Giancarlo Falappa]]
*[[Virna Lisi]]
*[[Antonio Magini-Coletti]]
*[[Roberto Mancini]]
*[[Valeria Moriconi]]
*[[Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]]
*[[Paolo Polidori]]
*[[Rafael Sabatini]]
*[[Gabriele Tinti (poet)|Gabriele Tinti]]
*[[Giovanna Trillini]]
*[[Valentina Vezzali]]

==International relations==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Italy}}
 
Jesi is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Lucera]], Italy (since 1970)
*{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Mayenne (commune)|Mayenne]], France
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Waiblingen]], Germany
*{{flagicon|ROM}} [[Galați]], Romania (since 2003)
Birzeit ,palestine

==See also==
* [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Jesi]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Jesi}}
*[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Marche/Ancona/Jesi/Jesi/home.html Thayer's Gazetteer]

{{Province of Ancona}}

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