Ascoli Piceno. The church of S. Tommaso Apostolo
2022
The church of S. Tommaso Apostolo, built in Romanesque style, stands on the side of the homonymous square which houses the remains of the Roman amphitheater of Ascoli Piceno, reinterred in 1974.
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Ascoli Piceno. The Church of San Francesco
This church is considered one of the best Italian works of Franciscan architecture, as well as the most representative Franciscan religious building in the Marche region. It was begun with the adjoining convent in 1258, consecrated in 1371 and completed with the dome in the 16th century. On the main facade, in Via del Trivio, there are three Gothic portals, while the right side acts as a scenic backdrop to the Piazza del Popolo and is characterized by the dynamic fifteenth-century apses, the fourteenth-century side portal surmounted by the monument to Julius II of 1510 and ends with an apsidal group of rare architectural model.
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Ripatransone, Ascoli Piceno. The Church of S. Rocco
The Church of S. Rocco was built in the first half of the 16th century, with a sandstone portal by M. Giacomo da Varese. Inside, the wooden statue of St. Rocco, by the Ripano sculptor Don Francesco Evangelisti (18th century), and the altar statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (around 1875), by Giorgio Paci from Ascoli.
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Castel Trosino, Ascoli Piceno. Glimpses
Castel Trosino is a small village of medieval origins which embodies an important series of historical, architectural, cultural and environmental "values". Castel Trosino has always been located in an important area that leads from the Apennine passes to the Adriatic Sea. It is in fact widespread opinion that the original Salaria consular road passed on this route, we do not know if this corresponds to the truth, but it is certain that through this important village there was a route that connected with the southern area of Umbria, a director widely used in Roman and early medieval times. The small village is located on a travertine rock (the main material of the area) as a cliff over the Castellano valley. The small village of the castle itself is organized around a central street that penetrates inside to the main square in front of the church dedicated today to San Lorenzo Martire.
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Ripatransone. The co-cathedral of SS. Gregorio Magno
The co-cathedral of Saints Gregorio Magno and Margherita is the main cult building in Ripatransone, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, co-cathedral of the diocese of San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto. It is a minor basilica and a triple sanctuary, as it also includes the chapel of the Madonna di San Giovanni and the crypt of Mercy and Death, considered temples in their own right.
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Recanati. The church of S. Agostino
The church of Sant'Agostino is a religious building in Recanati. The structure is known for its bell tower which inspired Giacomo Leopardi's poem Il spero solitario.
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Grottammare. The church of S. Agostino
The church, most likely donated by the community, was built by the Augustinian fathers between the end of the 15th century and 1517.
2022
Wonderful view of the Marche hills
2020
Rotella. Hermitage of San Francesco
In the territory of Poggio Canoso, along the road from Rotella to the Ascension mountain, there is an ancient convent, one of the first Franciscan hermitages built in the region. Tradition has it that it was San Francesco himself, perhaps bringing back everything that was already existing Benedictine, to choose the place that would host his convent and remain there for a night. The convent of Poggio Canoso was suppressed on 18 December 1653. After the uncertainties about its use, the convent finally received the attention it deserved and from 1989 to 2009 it was the seat of the "Meeting Community" of Don Pierino Gelmini. The boys, guests of the center, with precise and assiduous work, managed to restore the church, the cloister and all the ancient Franciscan structures to the splendors of the times of the conventual fathers.
2023
Ascoli Piceno, Marche. The Cathedral of San Emidio
The city's cathedral, dedicated to the patron saint, stands on the site of a Roman public building, perhaps the Basilica del Foro, and is the result of multiple construction events that substantially range from the 11th to the 16th century. The main facade created by Cola dell'Amatrice opens onto Piazza Arringo, while the two side facades date back to the end of the 15th century. The interior, with three naves divided by polygonal pillars, from the end of the fifteenth century, houses, among the various works, in the central apse a late Gothic wooden choir from the first half of the fifteenth century, a wooden pulpit from around 1660; in the Chapel of the Sacrament the Polyptych of Sant'Emidio by Carlo Crivelli, the imposing decorative cycle by Cesare Mariani, and the crypt of Sant'Emidio, built in the mid-11th century which houses, in a 4th century sarcophagus, the relics of the patron saint of the city.
2022
Recanati. The church of Santa Maria di Montemorello
The church of Santa Maria di Montemorello is located in Recanati. The church has a certain notoriety for being the parish of the Leopardi family, where the poet Giacomo Leopardi also went to pray.