Geo Territorial Museum
 

The GeoTerritorial Museum first proposes a presentation explaining the birth and evolution of the planet Earth, followed by a tour which begins with a clear prologue, the stratigraphic sequence typical of the Umbro-Marchigiana area, which is a prelude to the analysis of the rocks which characterise the territory of Cantiano. The explanation is strictly connected to the forms of anthropisation occurring locally through the centuries, showing the use that man has made of the rocks, how this has contributed to shaping the landscape and how it has concretely influenced many of man's settlement activities and the development of the communities. Here we find out how flint stones became the primitive tools the Palaeolithic age; how “corgnola” stone hewn into powerful blocks by Roman architects still support the bridges of the ancient Flaminian Road today, and how in more recent times became the raw material used in the water millstone factory in Cantiano; how the sedimentary and malleable sandstone delineates and decorates the portals of churches and noble buildings. Also in stone, the ammonites on display (casts), important reminders of our area's geological history, mostly from the collection of geologist Tobia Morena, one of Cantiano's illustrious sons to whom an entire section of the Museum is dedicated.

Another form which typifies the territory is the botanical vegetational aspect: a map indicates all of the various plant species present, including the sour cherry tree, an important plant in the Cantiano territory. In fact, it belongs to its past and up until a few years ago with the production of the "Amarena di Cantiano" which perfectly represented – under glass - one of the peculiar riches of this territory.

But the most interesting and intriguing aspect is the presence of  "Ugo" (Accoriichnus Natans) a reptile suited to life in a marine environment and which probably lived in the Middle-liassic age.