a city of the pontifical dominions, in Italy, in the delegation of Urbino cum Pesaro. It stands on the river Foglia, at its embouchure, and is surrounded with walls. It is the see of a bishop, and has a cathedral and seven parish churches, with eight monasteries and four nunneries, which have also churches, some of them decorated with paintings from the hands of the best masters. The houses are good, the streets broad; and there is a remarkably fine market-place, with a marble fountain, and a statue of Urban VIII. It contains 13,580 inhabitants, who are occupied in various branches of the silk trade, and in commerce in the raw productions of the vicinity, which are shipped from its small but secure harbour. Long. 12. 48. 16. E. Lat. 45. 51. 1. N.