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.
- Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo
Church of Saints Peter and Paul. Church, in Montegallo, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Chiesa della Madonna del Rosario
Church of the Madonna of the Rosary. Church, in Acquasanta Terme, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Chiesa di San Martino
Church of San Martino. Church, in Acquasanta Terme, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Chiesa di Santa Croce ai Templari
Church of Santa Croce ai Templari. Church, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Madonna del Ponte (Ascoli Piceno)
17th-century church, dedicated to Mary, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.
- Castello di Tronzano
Castle of Tronzano. Castle, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Chiesa di San Francesco
Church of San Francesco. Church, in Venarotta, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola
Church of San Francesco di Paola. Church, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Casa parrocchiale
regular in plan and in the arrangement of openings; irregular in elevation; constructional and material discontinuities
- Chiesa della SS. Annunziata
Isolated church, with a hall and a vertical supporting structure, featuring a gabled roof covered by a tympanum on the facade.
- Chiesa della Madonna delle Mercede
Church facing the square, with a hall structure and a gabled roof. Attached on the left side, set back, is the rectory.
- Chiesa di S. Pietro d' Arli
It is one of the many small churches scattered throughout the Acquasanta region, dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries, featuring a sail-like bell tower, a small semicircular apse, made of…
- Agricultural nucleus of S. Emidio
Rural nucleus in a state of abandonment, of 16th-century design.
- Casa rurale
The house is located at the base of the promontory of Castel di Luco, thus defining the village of the same name, which is the core formed by a series of other buildings also arranged in a circle…
- Casa privata
Built against the rock face on which the castle behind it rises, it follows the curvilinear layout in plan.
- Chiesa di S. Lorenzo
The church, isolated from other buildings, overlooks the main square.
- Casa rurale
Like almost all the ancient houses in the hamlets of Acquasanta, the massive appearance (and the windows with architraved frames on the northwest facade) is almost certainly due to an original…
- Ex Church of S. Maria delle Grazie
Small church located on a slope, with a hall structure and a gabled roof.
- Casa rurale
Located in front of the Church of S.
- Chiesa di S. Martino
Church with a longitudinal layout, featuring a single nave, with the sacristy on the left side.
- Ponte d'Arli
Bridge with a humpback arch structure, with a span of 19.9 m, featuring bands of travertine stone blocks bound with lime mortar, with parapets and connecting ramps contained by the abutment walls…
- Chiesa di S. Giuseppe
The small travertine building of 17th-century origin is located in the center of the village.
- Casa rurale
Massive building from the 15th-16th century.
- Palazzo Bellini
A significant building that dominates the area of Cagnano, it bears the name of the wealthy family of landowners, now extinct, who managed their estates from here.
- Casa privata
Building with an arcade portico and upper loggia, probably of pre-existing construction, located at the corner between the main Corso and Via Salaria, which used to pass through the corso.
- Palazzo Martini
Noble palace located in the center of the main Corso, with a large portal featuring rounded blocks.
- Chiesa di S. Maria Maddalena
Church with a single nave divided into three sections and a terminal apse, featuring a double entrance, one on the main front and the other on the right side front.
- Casa dei Combattenti
Building consisting of a main volume and an attached volume, located at the far right, set back from the first.
- Casa rurale
Ancient rural house with a wooden balcony, or 'verdesca', on the facade, renovated for use as a restaurant.
- Former Thermal Establishment
Building overlooking the thermal pool in a natural cave that housed the first treatment facility and has a complex of buildings located on the side of the square in front of the pool, known as…
- Consolidation Infrastructure, Substructure
Persichetti recognizes a stretch of retaining wall 500 m from Taverna Piccinini (approximately corresponding to km 195.300 of S.S.N.
- Road Infrastructure, Bridge
Various sources testify to the presence of structures attributable to a Roman bridge in the Santa Branna area (formerly S.).
- Consolidation Infrastructure, Substructure
At the height of Taverna Piccinini, but on the opposite bank, there are three sections of what was once a single containment wall of the Salaria.
- Road Infrastructure, Bridge
Colucci, speaking about the bridges around Mozzano, reports the presence of a small bridge that was supposed to cross the Rio di Corciano. It no longer exists, probably destroyed.
- Road Infrastructure, Bridge
Colucci and other authors (Castelli, Carducci, Luzi) speak of the remains of a bridge located opposite the village of Mozzano.
- Funerary Area, Tombs
Luzi reports that tombs with related artifacts were found in Mozzano. Gabrielli mentions the presence of 'sepulchers' and the discovery of oval bronze plates.
- Road Infrastructure, Bridge
The structure of the bridge, 6 m wide, consists of a single arch, flanked downstream by another modern bridge with three lower arches, 4.35 m wide.
- Water Infrastructure, Aqueduct
Roman aqueduct, significant remains are still visible near the former Enel power station (between Castel Trosino and the Casette). The tunnel (h.
- Funerary Area, Tombs
In the Santo Stefano area, on ecclesiastical property, a large Lombard burial ground was uncovered in 1893, where at least 50 tombs were initially excavated by the parish priest.
- Funerary Area, Tombs
In the Campo area, between the mid and late 18th century, near the fosso Grande, Colucci documents the discovery of numerous significant materials including: 'coins with the effigy of Justinian…
- Funerary area, tomb
In 1872 in the Pedata district, a very rich tomb from the first quarter of the 7th century AD was discovered.
- Settlement, traces of settlement
At the western side of the village square at a height of -3 m from the ground level.
- Lago di Talvacchia
Lake, in Province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy, at 507 m elevation, 35.0 km long.
- Lago di Gerosa
Lake Gerosa. Lake, in Montefortino, Italy, at 649 m elevation.
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