Grande Anello dei Borghi Ascolani: Points of interest

Cultural and natural places linked to this walk in the Appy catalogue. Check each location and description to plan your visit.

• Castel di Luco

  Castle, in Acquasanta Terme, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Palazzo Marcucci

  Palace, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Ponte Tufillo

  Bridge, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, built in stone.

• Torre degli Ercolani

  Medieval tower of squared travertine, 34.5 metres tall and tapering as it rises, with Roman blocks reused at its base.

• Ponte Maggiore

  Bridge, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, 52 m tall, 105.0 km long.

• Torre degli Alvitreti

  Tower in Romanesque Revival style, designed by Cesare Bazzani, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

• San Tommaso, Ascoli Piceno

  11th-century church in Romanesque style, dedicated to Thomas the Apostle, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• San Pietro Martire

  13th-century church in Gothic style, dedicated to Peter of Verona, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Immacolata Concezione

  18th-century church in Neoclassical style, designed by Pietro Maggi, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Chiesa dei Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio (Ascoli Piceno)

  14th-century church in Romanesque style, dedicated to Vincent of Saragossa, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Sant'Onofrio

  Church in Renaissance style, dedicated to Onuphrius, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

• Chiesa di San Pietro in Castello

  15th-century church in Romanesque style, dedicated to Saint Peter, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

• San Giacomo (Ascoli Piceno)

  13th-century church in Romanesque style, dedicated to St. James the Elder, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Santa Maria del Buon Consiglio

  18th-century church, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

• Parco, commemorativo/ ai caduti della prima guerra mondiale, Parco della Rimembranza di Ascoli Piceno di Paoletti

  Parco della Rimembranza di Ascoli Piceno was created to remember the 379 fallen soldiers from Ascoli in the First World War, for whom elementary school students planted as many trees, each named…

• Roman Aqueduct

  In the locality of Morteto, about 1250 m from the entrance of Castel Trosino, a section of the Roman aqueduct that supplied water to Ascoli is visible.

• Palazzo dell'Arengo

  Palazzo dell'Arengo is a monumental palace located in Piazza Arringo, in the center of Ascoli Piceno.

• Palazzo Roverella

  Palace, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Palazzo Bonaparte

  Palace in Renaissance style, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

• Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo

  Seat of the Captain of the People, raised between the mid-13th and 14th centuries, with a crenellated medieval tower.

• Palazzo Malaspina

  Palace, designed by Baldassarre Orsini, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

• Palazzo Panichi

  Palace, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Palazzo Bastoni

  Palace, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Ascoli Piceno Baptistery

  The Ascoli Piceno Baptistery (Italian: Il battistero di San Giovanni di Ascoli Piceno), also known as the baptistery of Saint John, is a religious building found on the eastern end of the piazza…

• San Cristoforo Church

  16th-century church in baroque style, dedicated to Saint Christopher, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• San Gregorio Magno

  Church in Romanesque style, dedicated to Gregory I, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Sant'Egidio Abate

  Church, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Caffè Meletti

  Liberty-style café with an old-rose façade, opened in 1907 in a building first made as a post office.

• Palazzo Bazzani

  Palace, designed by Cesare Bazzani, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

• Area archeologica Palazzo dei Capitani

  Museum, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage, covering 200.0 km².

• San Francesco, Ascoli Piceno

  13th-century church in Gothic style, dedicated to Francis of Assisi, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Santa Maria Inter Vineas, Ascoli Piceno

  Church, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Santissima Annunziata, Ascoli Piceno

  Church. Designated as Italian national heritage.

• Santa Maria della Carità

  Known in town as the church of the Scopa, after the brotherhood of Disciplinati who comforted the condemned in their last hours.

• San Venanzio

  Church in Romanesque style, dedicated to Venantius of Camerino, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Complesso monumentale di Sant'Agostino

  13th-century church in Romanesque style, dedicated to Augustine of Hippo, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• San Giuliano

  Church in Romanesque style, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

• San Angelo Magno

  13th-century church in Romanesque style, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• San Biagio Church

  Church, dedicated to Blaise of Sebaste, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

• Casa parrocchiale

  Irregular in plan, elevation and arrangement of openings.

• Casa parrocchiale in Vallorano

  Construction discontinuities and materials.

• [Casa canonica in Frazione Cerreto]

  The building incorporates an ancient tower that creates discontinuity in the masonry.

• [Parsonage in Frazione Olibra]

  construction discontinuities and materials

• Funerary area, tombs

  In a land in the Colle Carbone area owned by Lupi Felice, some Iron Age tombs belonging to a larger Picene necropolis were discovered in 1906.

• Funerary area, tomb

  On the land owned by the widow Astolfi (1956), located in the Cupanile area, and farmed by the sharecropper Ciotti Filippo, bones, fragmented vases, and fragments of tiles would have been found in…

• Funerary area, tomb

  In the locality of Ripe di Cepparano, in the small vineyard in front of Mr. Ciannavei's house, located at n.

• Settlement, traces of settlement

  During the construction works for the SS. 78 road axis in the Colle Martino area, an archaeological layer was exposed at about 0.50 m from the ground level, consisting of two contiguous pits of…

• Places of worship, building of worship

  The first structure, based on the style of the crypt, dates back to the VIII-IX century. The upper church, along with the apse, was built by the Farfa friars in the XIII century.

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