The city's new multimedia library stands on the ruins of an important site of Roman origin. A unique union between past and future, between antiquity and modernity, which offers a wide range of educational activities and cultural initiatives and the extraordinary opportunity of a dive into Roman times.
Exploring the Montanari - MeMo Media Library means immersing yourself in the ancient history of Fano and admiring the tangible signs of the greatness and charm of Roman civilization. In fact, the remains of Roman Fano are still visible in the basement of the building: it is a vast area surrounded by porticoes with brick columns with limestone capitals, built in the 1st century BC. and with a public function. To the east of this area there was an imposing building whose floor and walls were covered with magnificent polychrome marble which overlooked the main street of the Roman city, today Via Arco d'Augusto. Recent studies have established that it was probably the Augusteum, an imperial place of worship to which the discovered statues of the emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus belong, today preserved in the archaeological section of the Civic Museum of the Malatestian Palace.
In addition to guaranteeing library services in the city, in collaboration with the Federiciana Library, the Media Library promotes reading, learning and literacy, thanks to its vast heritage of 30,000 documents and modern multimedia stations, and actively participates in cultural promotion in the area by organizing numerous cultural activities and collaborating with local associations and bodies.
