Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Ascoli Piceno, Italy
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4.8 km
143 m
Explore Ascoli Piceno in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in Ascoli PicenoIndividual Sights in Ascoli PicenoSight 1: Musei della Cartiera Papale
The papal paper mill of Ascoli Piceno is an architectural complex made of robust regular travertine councils. The multifunctional vocation of the building has welcomed, over time, various work activities, such as: the paper mill, the water mills, the tanning of the fabrics and the ironworks, all carried out with the inseparable and precious symbiosis of the driving force of the waters of the near the Castellano stream.
Sight 2: Chiesa della Madonna del Ponte
The church of the Madonna del Ponte is one of the religious buildings of modest size in the city of Ascoli Piceno. It is located just across the bridge of Santo Spirito, in the Porta Cartara district.
Wikipedia: Chiesa della Madonna del Ponte (Ascoli Piceno) (IT)
Sight 3: Grotte dell'Annunziata
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.
Sight 4: Chiesa di Sant'Angelo Magno
The church of Sant'Angelo Magno is located in the historic center of the city of Ascoli Piceno, in the ancient district of the square.
Sight 5: Chiesa di San Gregorio Magno
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.
Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Gregorio Magno (Ascoli Piceno) (IT)
Sight 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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 9: 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 10: 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 11: 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 12: 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 13: 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 14: 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 15: Chiesa di San Vittore
San Vittore is a Romanesque and Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located in the town of Ascoli Piceno in the region of Marche, Italy.
Sight 16: Monumento a Cecco d'Ascoli
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.
Sight 17: Chiesa di Santa Maria del Lago
The church of Santa Maria del Lago in Ascoli Piceno stands in the middle of the structure of the complex of Fort Malatesta, near Ponte Maggiore.
Sight 18: Forte Malatesta
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.
Sight 19: Chiesa del Cuore Immacolato di Maria (dei Frati Minori)
The Church of the Immaculate Heart of Maria is located in the Luciani district in the area called Caldaie, in Ascoli Piceno.
Wikipedia: Chiesa del Cuore Immacolato di Maria (Ascoli Piceno) (IT)
Sight 20: Chiesa di San Salvatore di Sotto
The church of San Salvatore di Sotto, built according to the canons of the Romanesque style, currently deconsecrated, is located in the city of Ascoli Piceno. It is so called to distinguish it from the church of San Salvatore di Sopra which was built outside the city walls beyond Porta Romana.
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