Landscape of the Marche hills. View from Montedinove
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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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Genga. The church of San Vittore alle Chiuse
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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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Genga. The Hermitage of S. Maria Infra Saxa
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Grottammare. The Medieval Castle
Sources report news of the settlement on the hill starting from the 11th century, but the origin of the castle could be dated back to the 8th and 9th centuries.
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Offida, Ascoli Piceno. The church of the Addolorata
The church of the Addolorata was built in the century XV. The façade is characterized by a portico above which, leaning against the wall, there are two elegant sixteenth-century stone windows. Inside the church there is the "Bara" (as the chariot with canopy where the statue of the Dead Christ is placed) is commonly called, which is triumphantly carried in procession on the evening of Good Friday.
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Offida, Ascoli Piceno. Church of S. Maria della Rocca
The church is located on the western edge of the town, surrounded on three sides by cliffs that open onto two valleys. It is a Romanesque-Gothic brick construction, built by Maestro Albertino in 1330 on a pre-existing small Benedictine church. The façade, facing the outside of the town, is articulated by pilasters and on the opposite side there are three high polygonal apses with white stone pilasters, single lancet windows and Gothic arches. On the central apse there is a Romanesque-Gothic portal that leads into the crypt (3 then 5 naves), as wide as the upper church and decorated with frescoes attributed to the Master of Offida. The upper church, with a single hall according to the tradition of the mendicant orders, preserves frescoes of Giotto influence, still attributed to the Master of Offida (those of the transept are dated by an inscription to 1367) and others attributed to Giacomo da Campli (15th century) . Part of the original decorations were also lost due to the deterioration of the roof. In the side altars, erected in different eras, there is the one dedicated to Saint Andrew, from the 15th century, with an altarpiece frescoed on the wall by Vincenzo Pagani. During the advance of the allied troops, between 16 and 18 June 1944 some German soldiers had completely undermined the church so that the rubble was in the way of the allies, but none of the thirty mines exploded and the inhabitants attributed the episode to a miracle of the Virgin. On the left side of the first step of the staircase leading to the church a sheep is represented eating a four-leaf clover; popular belief has it that if you position yourself on it, walking backwards along the staircase, with your eyes closed, your wish will be fulfilled.
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Loreto. The Basilica of the Holy House
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Ancona. La Cattedrale di San Ciriaco
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Grottammare. Oasis of Santa Maria ai Monti
The structure, belonging to the order of the reformed minor friars, was built in the 17th century on the site of a small Marian sanctuary dedicated to the Madonna dei Monti, protector from the plague.