It was in the spring of 1994 when the idea was born of retracing the "collective memory" of San Costanzo through 'old' photographs. This was how, a few months later, Il paese nella memoria (The Town in Memory) was born, a photo book wich has in its cover the image (perhaps of 1936 or so) of eight couples dancing outdoors against the backdrop of a haystack and the Malatesta tower. Since then San Costanzo and the 'memory' have crossed several times. In 1997 with the anastatic reprint of a precious book of 1904 in which the then health officer, Gastone Gherardi, drew a picture of the sanitary conditions of the municipality. In 1999 with Oscar e Uggiano nei giorni di Caporetto (Oscar and Uggiano in the days of Caporetto), a booklet with unpublished notes of Oscar Santini, a soldier of San Costanzo involved in one of the most crucial phases of the 'Great War'. In 2003, with the construction of a mural on the facade of a house in the Borghetto that depicted a cooper, a blacksmith and a carter (now disappeared under a layer of white) and with the installation of various photographic panels with the atmosphere and characters of the country in the early decades of the twentieth century. Some made from glass plates (exposed between 1900 and 1902 by the captain-photographer Gaetano Bavviera) accidentally emerged from the deposits of the Federiciana Library in Fano. Then, in 2008, in the wake of a project by the Laboratory of Social History of the University of Bologna, it was the turn to Lascerei respirare le colline-Storie di vita e di paese (Let the Hills Breathe. Stories of life and country), a collection of excerpts from the 'life stories' of a hundred Sancostanzans in the background of the macro-history of the twentieth century. Then, in 2014, exactly twenty years after the first approach, the discourse on memory resumed with the establishment of the Laboratory of Memories, the publication of the notebook La memoria della guerra - San Costanzo 1940-1945 (The Memory of War - San Costanzo 1940-1945) and with the first exhibition of Un Paese in Bianco e Nero, an event that then continued annually thanks to the photographic material collected by Paolo Alfieri with the collaboration of hundreds of families from San Costanzo. At that point, with 124 testimonies (for about 200 hours of audio and video recordings) and more than 5000 photographs (a heritage that few other realities can boast), 'the country in memory' could be considered in all respects 'the country of memory'. A suggestion that Andrea Triani - then president of the Pro Loco - enthusiastically supported, to the point of suggesting other publishing initiatives for the 50th anniversary of the Association. Thus, bringing together oral testimonies and photographic repertories, in October 2015 saw the light of Storie e immagini del '900-Un'autobiografia collettiva di San Costanzo (Stories and images of the '900 - A collective autobiography of San Costanzo), and, after just over a year, in January 2017, Il paese in posa. Gli studi fotografici e la rappresentazione dei sentimenti (1880-1960) (A Country Posing. The photographic studies and the representation of feelings), which, for the written part, wholly deals whit the genealogical research of Roberto Piccioli and from the procedural documentation collected by Federico Sora. Both the books and the exhibitions had a good response in terms of readers and visitors, but it was clear that the theme of memory could have spaces of interest even outside of the city: among all those who live around the world, they still feel that they have their roots in the country and more generally among those who, for research reasons of study or simple curiosity, are attracted by the ways of life, experiences, customs, adventures and misadventures of great-grandparents, grandparents and parents. Here, then, is this website (accessible from any computer location) into which paper and iconographic material produced in a quarter of a century has converged. Certainly not to arouse nostalgic escapes or improbable combinations between a world that no longer exists and today, but to help understand a past that in some ways is just around the corner. San Costanzo, July 2018 Post Scriptum For those who do not know, San Costanzo is one of the many villages born around castle in the Region Marche. It is located in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, on the first hills overlooking the Adriatic Sea, and periodically traces of much older Piceno settlements are found out. San Costanzo is known for its Malatesta city walls and the traditional "polenta festival" and houses at Palazzo Cassi a picture gallery of a certain importance, an antiquarium and a permanent exhibition of Roberto Patrizi (Agrà), a worldly painter who has built his artistic figure on the signs and colors of the landscape of the Marche. He is also responsible for "San Costanzo seen from San Martino", the tempera work that graphically characterizes this site.