Marche. Wonderful view of the Marche hills
2022
The Marche, a region of eastern Italy, rises between the Apennine mountains and the Adriatic Sea.
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2023
Ascoli Piceno. The Church of San Francesco
The church of San Francesco in Ascoli Piceno is considered one of the best Italian works of Franciscan architecture, as well as the most representative Franciscan religious building in the Marche region.
2022
Ascoli Piceno. 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
Offida, Ascoli Piceno. Piazza del Popolo, the Town Hall
Town Hall. Built between the 13th and 14th centuries (central crenellated tower). The façade is preceded by a 7-arched portico with an elegant 14-arched loggia raised in the 15th century. Inside there is a small art gallery with works by Pietro Alamanno and Simone de Magistris from Caldarola. In the municipal historical archive there is, among other things, the mutilated parchment cadastre of the fourteenth century with a good 70 parchments in Gothic characters.
2022
Offida. Collegiate Church of S. Maria Assunta
Collegiate Church. Built between 1785 and 1798 by the Ticino architect Pietro Maggi, who substituted and profoundly changed the design by Ascoli Lazzaro Giosafatti; it has a neoclassical Louis XVI interior and a facade built only at the end of the nineteenth century in an eclectic style of brick and travertine. Inside, among other things, there is a thirteenth-century wooden casket with 26 ivory figurines of northern art, a fourteenth-century processional cross, a fifteenth-century reliquary, a sixteenth-century wooden group, a wooden crucifix by Desiderio Bonfini (1612) , paintings of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Crivellesque school and school of Pietro Alemanno). The choir carved with twisted columns and mirrors in Verona briar with two orders of 14 stalls was built by Alessio Donati for the church of Santa Maria della Rocca but was transferred in 1794 to the Collegiate, together with the relics of San Leonardo di Noblac preserved in a urn placed inside the main altar, also in wood. On 12 November 1994 the body of Blessed Corrado da Offida was placed in the third altar on the left, solemnly moved from Perugia, where it had been kept in the now no longer consecrated Church of San Francesco al Prato. The church, despite the distance, was affected by the strong earthquake that occurred in L'Aquila on 6 April 2009: in fact, on the day of the earthquake some pieces of plaster fell off the bell tower.
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.
2022
Loreto. The Basilica of the Holy House
The Basilica of the Holy House is one of the main places of veneration of Mary and one of the most important and visited Marian shrines of the Catholic Church. It is located in Loreto.
2024
Acquaviva Picena. The Clock Tower
Once a civic tower. It dates back to 1300. Surmounted by a small bell tower, it has been transformed into a clock tower.
2022
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.
2022
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.
2024
Ancona. La Cattedrale di San Ciriaco
The cathedral of Ancona is dedicated to San Ciriaco. It is a medieval church in which the Romanesque style blends with the Byzantine one, evident in the plan and in many decorations