Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Ancona, Italy

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Number of sights 23 sights
Distance 4.6 km
Ascend 286 m
Descend 213 m

Experience Ancona in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in AnconaIndividual Sights in Ancona

Sight 1: Porta Pia

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Porta Pia is an ancient monumental gateway to the city of Ancona designed by the architect Filippo Marchionni.

Wikipedia: Porta Pia (Ancona) (IT)

544 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Ex Chiesa di Sant'Agostino

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The former church of Sant'Agostino is located in Ancona. The building, originally from the fourteenth century, was completely renovated in the seventeenth century by Luigi Vanvitelli. In the first years after the unification of Italy, it was used as a barracks and profoundly transformed. For its artistic value, the richly carved portal, a fifteenth-century work by Giorgio da Šibenik, was spared; Gothic and Renaissance art are harmoniously blended in it, as is typical of the Adriatic Renaissance.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Agostino (Ancona) (IT)

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Sinagoghe di Ancona

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The two synagogues of Ancona, the Levantine and the Italian, are housed in a single building in Via Astagno, in the heart of the ancient ghetto.

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313 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista

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The church of San Giovanni Battista is a church in Ancona, Italy, located in the district of Capodimonte.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista (Ancona) (IT)

477 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa del Santissimo Sacramento

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The Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Ancona was a co-cathedral until 1986, before the unification of the Archdiocese of Ancona with the Diocese of Osimo.

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90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Palazzo Jona-Millo

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Palazzo Jona-Millo, or Bourbon Del Monte is a late Baroque noble palace in Ancona, Italy.

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50 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Teatro delle Muse

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The Teatro delle Muse in Ancona is the largest in the Marche region and the 13th largest in Italy in terms of capacity. It is located in the center of the city, near one of the main entrances to the port. There is an opera and ballet season, a symphonic music season, a concert season and a prose season, as well as a jazz festival.

Wikipedia: Teatro delle Muse (IT)

75 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Palazzo del Governo (Prefettura)

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The Palazzo del Governo is a historic building in Ancona located in Piazza del Plebiscito. In the past, it was the Governors' Palace, now the seat of the Prefecture.

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99 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Pinacoteca civica Francesco Podesti

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The Pinacoteca civica "Francesco Podesti" in Ancona was founded in 1884. Its establishment is mainly due to the fervent interest of the Ancona painter Francesco Podesti, to whom the art collection was soon dedicated. It collects some paintings of universal value for the history of Italian art and others of great interest for the understanding of painting in the Marche region from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century.

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152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Chiesa di San Francesco alle Scale

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Chiesa di San Francesco alle Scale

San Francesco alle Scale is a church in Ancona, central Italy.

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210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Chiesa del Gesù

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The Church of the Gesù is a place of Catholic worship in Ancona, located in front of the Palazzo degli Anziani, in Piazza Benvenuto Stracca, the ancient Piazza del Comune. The full title is "Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus". It is the work of Luigi Vanvitelli.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Gesù (Ancona) (IT)

47 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Palazzo degli Anziani

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The Palazzo degli Anziani in Ancona has been the ancient municipal seat of the city since the thirteenth century. It is located in Piazza Stracca, known as "Piazza del Comune" until a few decades ago, in front of the Church of the Gesù. In 2011 it returned to being the seat of the city council, after a parenthesis that lasted from 1945 to 2010, a period in which the council met at Palazzo del Popolo. Together with the latter, in which the council still meets and the mayor has his cabinet, the Palazzo degli Anziani is once again the municipal seat, returning to the role for which it was built in the Middle Ages.

Wikipedia: Palazzo degli Anziani (Ancona) (IT)

453 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Piazza

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Santa Maria della Piazza is a church in Ancona, central Italy.

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147 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Loggia dei Mercanti

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The Loggia dei Mercanti is a historical palace in Ancona, central Italy.

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33 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 15: Palazzo Benincasa

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Palazzo Benincasa is one of the most important noble palaces in Ancona, a fifteenth-century work by Giorgio Orsini da Sebenik; Over time, it was enlarged and restored.

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391 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Museo della Città di Ancona

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The City Museum is located in Ancona, in Piazza del Plebiscito, in rooms that once belonged to the medieval hospital of St. Thomas of Canterbury and a nineteenth-century fish market.

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21 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 17: Piazza del Plebiscito

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Piazza del Plebiscito, commonly called Piazza del Papa, is one of the four main squares in Ancona. Of these, it is the oldest: it was opened in the fifteenth century; until the expansion of the city following the unification of Italy, it was the central square of the city, the "big square" where the borders of the three districts met: Porto, Capodimonte and San Pietro. Today it is the center of the latter district.

Wikipedia: Piazza del Plebiscito (Ancona) (IT)

267 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Fontana del Calamo

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Fontana del Calamo

The Fountain of Càlamo, also called the Fountain of the Thirteen Cannelles, is a Renaissance fountain in Ancona, Italy.

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70 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Fontana dei Cavalli

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Fontana dei Cavalli

The fountain of the Sea Horses, or of the Four Horses, or even of the Horses; it was built in Baroque style to a design by Scipione Daretti in 1758, with sculptures by Gioacchino Varlè. It is located in front of the Palazzo dell'Orologio in Piazza Roma in Ancona, in the Marche region.

Wikipedia: Fontana dei Cavalli Marini (IT)

186 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Chiesa di San Domenico

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The church of San Domenico di Ancona is located in Piazza del Papa, the main square of the San Pietro district and one of the four main squares of the city. With its façade, it occupies one of the two short sides of the square, at the top of a staircase.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Domenico (Ancona) (IT)

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: Palazzo Mengoni-Ferretti

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Palazzo Mengoni-Ferretti is a noble palace in Ancona, Italy. It stands on the north-east side of Piazza del Papa, at the corner with the thirteenth-century Porta di San Pietro.

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141 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Palazzo Camerata

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Palazzo Camerata is a palace in Ancona, Italy.

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599 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 23: Faro di Ancona

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Ancona Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Ancona on the Adriatic Sea. It is placed on the hill named Colle dei Cappuccini, from which takes the name, about 119.5 metres from the old lighthouse deactivated in 1965.

Wikipedia: Ancona Lighthouse (EN)

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