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First records of St. Peter’s Abbey date back to 1038 when the church was donated by the Conti Cortesi of Sirolo to a benedictine monk to found a monastry.
In 1203 the first cloister was added to the church. Many monchs and clergymen settled in turn in St. Peter’s monastry giving importance and interest to the builinding through the years. Unfortunatly the peace and quite of the area was often broken by fighting between different religious communities. In 1558 a fire, deliberately started, destroyed a large part of the church and the monastry. The Camaldolites began the work of restoration and it was in 1561 that they first settled into the refurbished abbey.
At the end of the 17th century the complex had already a well defined structure. Surrounded by a wall, it is divided into two distinct areas; the southern part with the hermitical cells and the guest rooms; and the northern part including the Romanesque church of St. Peter and the others monastic buildings. In 1864 the Camaldolites abandoned the hermitage. The Commune of Sirolo took over, handing over the monastry first to the Marchetti family and then to the Soderini Caraffa d’Andria family. In 1932 the part of the complex still belonging to the Commune was rented to the Melappioni family who opened their restaurant business.
In 1958 the Melappioni family bought the entire complex from the Commune and the Caraffa d’Andria family and transformed it into an elegant hotel.
For over three generations the family has run the hotel, which furnished with every confort still preserves the fascination of the ancient abbey.
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