Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Ascoli Piceno, Italy

Fort Malatesta is a fortified work of urban defense of the city of Ascoli Piceno. Built near the banks of the Castellano stream and the Cecco bridge, an obligatory step for those who entered the city from the east, it was rebuilt on the remains of previous architecture erected over the centuries.

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The monument to Cecco d'Ascoli is a work dedicated to Cecco d'Ascoli born Francesco Stabili, an illustrious figure of poet, doctor, teacher, philosopher and astrologer/astronomer, located in Ascoli Piceno in Piazza Giacomo Matteotti.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Porta Tufilla is one of the gates of the city of Ascoli Piceno.

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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.

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The Philharmonic Theatre, formerly of the Filodrammatici, in Ascoli Piceno is located in Via delle Torri, in the historic centre of the Marche city.

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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.

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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.

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The church of San Giuliano is located in the historic center of the city of Ascoli Piceno, in the Marche region.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The church of San Gregorio Magno, in Ascoli Piceno, was born as a transformation into a place of Christian worship of a pagan Roman temple, of larger dimensions, which was built between the late Republican Age, first century BC, and the early Augustan Age, first century AD in the area, behind the Palazzo dell'Arengo, where the Piazzetta di San Gregorio opens up, which connects the city plan to the Colle dell'Annunziata.

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The church of Sant'Angelo Magno is located in the historic center of the city of Ascoli Piceno, in the ancient district of Piazzarola.

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The caves of the Annunziata are one of the monumental constructions of the Roman Asculum, they are actually artificial caves, technically called "substructures", they are niches with barrel vaults, leaning on three sides against the cliff of the Colle dell'Annunziata, which they surround entirely on the eastern side. A peculiarity of the structure, perhaps unique in its kind, is the shape of the termination of the arches, which is "wedge-shaped", probably to better anchor the structure to the rocky hill.

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The Papal Paper Mill of Ascoli Piceno is an architectural complex made of sturdy regular square travertine ashlars. The multifunctional vocation of the building has welcomed, over time, various work activities, such as: the paper mill, the water mills, the tanning of fabrics and the ironworks, all carried out with the inseparable and precious symbiosis of the driving force of the waters of the nearby Castellano stream.

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