Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Ancona, Italy

Porta Pia is an ancient monumental gateway to the city of Ancona; it was 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 Sebenico, was spared; in it Gothic and Renaissance art blend harmoniously, as is typical of the Adriatic Renaissance.

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

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The church of the Blessed Sacrament of Ancona was the city's co-cathedral until 1986, before the amalgamation 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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The Teatro delle Muse in Ancona is the largest in the Marche region and the 13th in Italy by capacity. It is located in the city center, 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.

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

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The "Francesco Podesti" Civic Art Gallery 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 from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century.

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

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The church of the Gesù is a Catholic place of 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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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 until a few decades ago as "Piazza del Comune", 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 its cabinet, the Palazzo degli Anziani is once again the municipal seat, returning to play the role for which it was built in the Middle Ages.

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

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The Loggia dei Mercanti is a historical palace in Ancona, central 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 Sebenico; over time it was the subject of extensions and restorations.

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

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

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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 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 Mengoni-Ferretti Palace is a noble palace in Ancona. It stands on the north-east side of Piazza del Papa, on the corner with the thirteenth-century door of St. Peter's.

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Palazzo Camerata is an ancient noble palace in Ancona, in the Marche region.

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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.

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