Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Ascoli Piceno, Italy

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 6.1 km
Ascend 220 m
Descend 227 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 Piceno

Sight 1: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Donne

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Donne (IT)

696 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Porta Gemina

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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.

Wikipedia: Porta Romana (Ascoli Piceno) (IT)

95 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa del Santissimo Crocifisso dell'Icona

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Santissimo Crocifisso dell'Icona (IT)

300 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di San Giuliano

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giuliano (Ascoli Piceno) (IT)

279 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Galleria d'arte contemporanea Osvaldo Licini

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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.

Wikipedia: Galleria d'arte contemporanea Osvaldo Licini (IT)

167 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Teatro dei Filarmonici

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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.

Wikipedia: Teatro dei Filarmonici (IT)

233 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Teatro Ventidio Basso

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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.

Wikipedia: Teatro Ventidio Basso (EN)

86 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Chiesa di San Francesco

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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.

Wikipedia: San Francesco, Ascoli Piceno (EN)

80 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Loggia dei Mercanti

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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.

Wikipedia: Loggia dei Mercanti (Ascoli Piceno) (IT)

39 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 10: Edicola di Lazzaro Morelli

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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.

Wikipedia: Edicola di Lazzaro Morelli (IT)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Palazzo del Governo

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo del Governo (Ascoli Piceno) (IT)

125 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Pinacoteca Civica

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Pinacoteca Civica Sibilla.io / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Pinacoteca civica (Ascoli Piceno) (IT)

172 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Battistero di San Giovanni

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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.

Wikipedia: Ascoli Piceno Baptistery (EN)

18 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 14: Porta della Musa

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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:

Wikipedia: Porta della Musa (IT)

278 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Palazzo Bazzani

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Bazzani (IT)

265 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Chiesa di Santa Maria Intervineas

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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.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Inter Vineas, Ascoli Piceno (EN)

374 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di San Pietro in Castello

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Chiesa di San Pietro in Castello Original uploader was Infinitispazi at it.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

The church of San Pietro in Castello built in Romanesque style, currently deconsecrated, is located in the city of Ascoli Piceno.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Pietro in Castello (IT)

1067 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 18: Chiesa di Sant'Ilario

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Chiesa di Sant'Ilario L'utente che ha caricato in origine il file è stato Interminatispazi di Wikipedia in italiano / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Ilario (Ascoli Piceno) (IT)

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Sight 19: Tempietto di Sant'Emidio alle Grotte

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Sant'Emidio alle Grotte is a Baroque church in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

Wikipedia: Sant'Emidio alle Grotte (EN)

1678 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 20: Monumento a Cecco d'Ascoli

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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.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Cecco d'Ascoli (IT)

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