Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Ascoli Piceno, Italy
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5.3 km
177 m
Experience Ascoli Piceno 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 Ascoli PicenoIndividual Sights in Ascoli PicenoSight 1: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Donne
The church of Santa Maria delle Donne in Ascoli Piceno was built at the beginning of the thirteenth century on the plain of San Panfilo, outside the city walls, just beyond Porta Romana, in the district of the same name.
Sight 2: Porta Gemina
Porta Romana, also known as Porta Gemina and Porta Binata, is one of the oldest and most important gates of the city of Ascoli Piceno.
Sight 3: Chiesa del Santissimo Crocifisso dell'Icona
The Church of the Holy Crucifix of the Icon, also called the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is a Catholic place of worship, located in Piazza Cecco d'Ascoli in the western area of the historic center of Ascoli Piceno, between the Roman Theater and the medieval walls with Porta Romana.
Sight 4: Chiesa di San Giuliano
The church of San Giuliano is located in the historic center of the city of Ascoli Piceno, in the Marche region.
Sight 5: Museo dell'Arte Ceramica
The Museum of Ceramic Art is located in Ascoli Piceno, in the evocative cloister of the former convent of the Romanesque church of San Tommaso overlooking the square of the same name. It was inaugurated on June 1, 2007.
Sight 6: Galleria d'arte contemporanea Osvaldo Licini
The Osvaldo Licini Gallery of Contemporary Art is an art gallery in Ascoli Piceno, set up at the complex of the Sant'Agostino Cultural Center and dedicated to the Ascoli painter Osvaldo Licini.
Wikipedia: Galleria d'arte contemporanea Osvaldo Licini (IT)
Sight 7: Teatro dei Filarmonici
The Philharmonic Theatre, formerly of the Filodrammatici, in Ascoli Piceno is located in Via delle Torri, in the historic centre of the Marche city.
Sight 8: Teatro Ventidio Basso
The Ventidio Basso Theater is the communal theater, concert hall, and opera house in the city of Ascoli Piceno region of Marche, Italy. It is located on via del Trivio, in front main cloister of the church of San Francesco, near piazza del Popolo. The exterior was erected in neoclassical-style, with grand interiors.
Sight 9: Chiesa di San Francesco
The Basilica di San Francesco is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located on the Piazza del Popolo in the town of Ascoli Piceno in the region of Marche, Italy.
Sight 10: Loggia dei Mercanti
The Loggia dei Mercanti is a sixteenth-century work that was placed against part of the right side of the church of San Francesco, of which it covers about a third, between Corso Mazzini and Piazza del Popolo in Ascoli Piceno. The edge of the western front is located almost exactly at the intersection of the two main roads of the Roman city.
Sight 11: Edicola di Lazzaro Morelli
Lazzaro Morelli's aedicule, in a classicistic style, is located in Ascoli Piceno in Piazza del Popolo, adhering to an apse of the external wall of the church of San Francesco. It was built in 1639 and dedicated to the Madonna of Reggio at the behest of the client, the governor pro tempore Mons. Gerolamo dei conti Codebò di Modena.
Sight 12: Palazzo del Governo
The Government Palace of Ascoli Piceno, also known as Palazzo San Filippo, is considered one of the largest buildings in the city. Its architecture occupies the entire east side of Piazza Fausto Simonetti and houses the headquarters of the Prefecture and the Provincial Administration. The name of Palazzo San Filippo is attributed to this building because a portion of it was a convent built in the seventeenth century that belonged to the congregation of the Filippini.
Sight 13: Pinacoteca Civica
The Pinacoteca civica of Ascoli Piceno, considered one of the most important in the Marche region and in central Italy, occupies the north (entirely) and west (partially) wings of the first and second floors of the Palazzo dell'Arengo in Piazza Arringo.
Sight 14: Museo Archeologico Statale di Ascoli Piceno
The State Archaeological Museum of Ascoli Piceno is housed in Palazzo Panichi in Piazza Arringo. It was born with the function of a Museum of the Territory and in particular of the southernmost strip of the Ascoli area: the Tronto valley and the Tesino valley with an expansion up to the Salino valley, in the province of Teramo, which in the nineteenth century gravitated towards Ascoli.
Wikipedia: Museo archeologico statale di Ascoli Piceno (IT), Website
Sight 15: Museo Diocesano
The Diocesan Museum in the Italian town of Ascoli Piceno is located in one wing of the ecclesiastical palazzo, which also contains the city's pinacoteca and the state archeological museum.
Sight 16: Battistero di San Giovanni
The Ascoli Piceno Baptistery, also known as the baptistery of Saint John, is a religious building found on the eastern end of the piazza Arringo at the center of Ascoli Piceno and sitting next to and just north of the cathedral dedicated to St. Emygdius, the city's patron saint.
Sight 17: Porta della Musa
On the left side of the Cathedral of Sant'Emidio there is the side entrance of the cathedral of Ascoli Piceno called La Porta della Musa. A poetic name that derives from the inscription of the couplet, in Latin, which can be read in the block of travertine walled near the door:
Sight 18: Palazzo Bazzani
Palazzo Bazzani, also known as Palazzo della Cassa di Risparmio, is a building in the historic center of Ascoli Piceno, located in Corso Giuseppe Mazzini.
Sight 19: Porta Tufilla
Porta Tufilla is one of the gates of the city of Ascoli Piceno.
Sight 20: Chiesa di Santa Maria Intervineas
San Maria Inter Vineas is a late-Romanesque and early-Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located on Largo del Cremore in the town of Ascoli Piceno in the region of Marche, Italy.
Sight 21: Chiesa di San Pietro in Castello
The church of San Pietro in Castello built in Romanesque style, currently deconsecrated, is located in the city of Ascoli Piceno.
Sight 22: Chiesa dei Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio
The Church of Saints Vincenzo and Anastasio is a Roman Catholic church in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.
Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio (Ascoli Piceno) (IT)
Sight 23: Torre degli Ercolani
The tower of the Herculaneum rises in the city of Ascoli Piceno. Its architecture belongs to the medieval complex of Romanesque art which, together with the Lombard palace, is the only example of a palatium-turris in the city that has survived intact to this day.
Sight 24: Palazzetto Longobardo
The Longobard Palace of Ascoli Piceno is a small medieval building of Romanesque art, used as a residence, which has no ties with the Lombard people. Its architectural composition constitutes a palatium-turris, the only perfectly preserved example of the city of the early communal age, which includes the palace and the adjacent tower of the Herculaneum.
Sight 25: Porta Solestà
Porta Solestà, also known as Porta dei Cappuccini or simply Porta Cappuccina, is one of the gates of the city of Ascoli Piceno.
Sight 26: Ponte Romano di Solestà
The Roman bridge of Solestà is a bridge in the city of Ascoli Piceno, in the Marche region. The building dates back to the period of the Augustan age and boldly plunges itself into the recessed banks of the Tronto river.
Sight 27: Tempietto di Sant'Emidio Rosso
The Sant'Emidio Red Temple is a church of Ascoli Piceno in Italy. Its name refers to Saint Emygdius (Emidius), patron saint of the city.
Sight 28: Tempietto di Sant'Emidio alle Grotte
Sant'Emidio alle Grotte is a Baroque church in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.
Sight 29: Chiesa di Sant'Ilario
The church of Sant'Ilario in Ascoli Piceno, currently deconsecrated, stands in front of the small temple of Sant'Emidio alle Grotte, in the Campo Parignano district.
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