Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Ancona, Italy

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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The city museum is located in Ancona, in the Plebiscito square, in rooms that once belonged to the medieval hospital of San Tommaso di Canterbury and a nineteenth -century fish market.

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

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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.

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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.

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The Fontana del Càlam, also called the Fontana delle thirteen caneles is a Renaissance fountain of Ancona.

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

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The monument to the Resistance of Ancona is located inside the Pincio park. The sculpture is in bronze, the work of Pericle Fazzini, and bears the phrase "The Republic born from the Resistance glories in its origin", it was inaugurated on October 17, 1965. The monument depicts a man hanging by his arms from a branch of a tree stylized in human form, with a bird perched on the branch on the opposite side.

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The Church of the Sacred Heart is an Italian Roman Catholic church in Ancona, Italy.

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