PORTO RECANATI
Castello Svevo (ospita la pinacoteca comunale), Abbazia di Santa Maria in Potenza, Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista, chiesetta del Suffragio.

ANCONA
Teatro delle Muse. Piazza del Plebiscito, detta del “Papa”. Palazzo Bosdari, sede della Pinacoteca Civica Francesco Podesti con opere di Crivelli, Lotto, Guercino, Tiziano ed altri. Museo Statale Omero: unico esempio di museo tattile in Europa; per non vedenti e non solo. Museo Diocesano con arazzi del Rubens. “Palazzo degli Anziani”. Palazzo Ferretti che ospita il Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche. Palazzo del Senato (del 1200). Cattedrale di San Ciriaco. Chiesa di Santa Maria della Piazza con architettura romanica. Arco di Traiano. Il Vanvitelliano Arco Clementino. La Mole Vanvitelliana conosciuta come “Il Lazzaretto”. Passetto: Monumento ai caduti. A Portonovo la chiesa di Santa Maria, gioiello del Romanico, risalente all’XI sec.

NUMANA
Arch called “La Torre”: a medieval ruin of the tower of the ancient parish of San Giovanni.

LORETO
Innumerable treasures: the Basilica, a Renaissance complex, boasts architects like: Giovanni Alberti, Marino di Marco Cedrino, Giorgio Martini, Bramante, Andrea Sansovino, Luigi Vanvitelli, Antonio Calcagni, Antonio di Girolamo, Lombardo Tiburzio Vergelli. However, the Shrine’s frescoes are by: Luca Signorelli, Melozzo da Forlì; Federico Zuccai, Cesare Maccari and del Pomarancio. The “Museo Pinacoteca” has a collection of canvases by Lorenzo Lotto and preserves sixteenth-century ceramics as well as Raphaelite tapestries. “Bastione di Sangallo”. “Palazzo della Provincia. Scala Santa”.

RECANATI
Leopardian places to visit: “Palazzo Leopardi” and annexed “Biblioteca” with over 12.000 volumes; “Il Colle dell’infinito” and the ruins of the ancient “Torre di Sant’Agostino” that inspired the “Passero Solitario” poem; the “Piazza del Sabato del Villaggio”. Masterpieces by Lorenzo Lotto preserved at “Villa Colloredo Mels” and the “Chiesa di San Domenico”. Valuable churches and buildings among which the “Palazzo Comunale”, “Palazzo Carancini” , “Palazzo Massucci della Stella”, “Palazzo della Casapiccola”, “Palazzo Venieri”.

CAMERANO
Birthplace of the painter Carlo Maratti, whose main works are preserved at the “Palazzo Comunale, the “Chiesa Parrocchiale Immacolata Concezione” and the “Chiesa San Nicolò di Bari” or of “Santa Faustina”. A bust is dedicated to him in the central Piazza Roma.

CASTELFIDARDO
“Monumento Nazionale delle Marche” and “Museo del Risorgimento”. The city’s gates: “Porta del Cassero, Porta di Sasso, Porta del Sole, Porta Vittoria known as Porta Marina”.

OSTRA VETERE
Churches: “Santa Maria di Piazza”: in neo-gothic style, it is the most important because of its dimensions and visual impact. Inside there are some masterpieces, as the precious paliotto of the XVIII century ascribed to Claudio Ridolfi and the organ of the same period of Gaetano Callido. “Santa Lucia” with a rich and wonderful interior, “San Severo” with a marvellous Romanesque portal of the XIII century, “San Sebastiano” today readapted as a concert hall-auditorium, “Sant’Antonio al borgo” and, out of the ancient city walls, “Santa Croce” with a splendid “Crocifissione” by Claudio Ridolfi and “S.S. Crocifisso” with frescoes of XV and XVI century. Ex-conventual complex of “San Francesco”, others remarkable frescoes can be found in the cloister. In the ancient Palazzo Marulli there is the Museo civico parrocchiale “Maria C. Satellico”: the art collection includes some frescoes of Marche school of 1400 from “San Francesco al Mercatale Church” and a painting by Pomarancio representing “ Cristo e San Pietro sul Lago di Tiberiade”. Nearby the Pinacoteca, there is the rich Franciscan Library of Ostra Vetere with almost 3500 volumes.

CINGOLI
Chiesa di San Domenico ( XIII- XVIII cent.): venue of Lorenzo Lotto’ s canvas “Madonna del Rosario e dei Santi”. Collegiata di Sant’ Esuperanzio (XII- XIV cent.): with Romanesque- Gothic shapes, frescoes and important pictorial works ( a polyptych of Giovanni Antonio Bellinzoni da Pesaro and a painting of Sebastiano Del Piombo). Pinacoteca “D. Stefanucci” and Public Library; Fonte di Maltempo ( XVI cent.), with its hermetic symbology; Porta Piana (XIX cent.), Town Hall (XIII- XVI cent.); Palazzo Castiglioni (XVII- XIX cent.), birth home of the pope Pio VIII; Palazzo Puccetti (XVII cent.); Palazzo Cima (XV cent.); Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta (XVII- XVIII cent.), Chiesa di San Filippo Neri ( XIII- XVII cent), with its pompous baroque internal. Museo Internazionale del Sidecar: collection, the only in the world, with more than 100 pieces, visits in groups on reservation to the phone number: +39 0733602651.

OFFAGNA
Rocca: Notable example of military architecture of the period between the Meddle Age and the Renaissance, it is a quadrangular building with a singular keep and it rests on a tuff cliff which increases considerably the visual power. The structure, perfectly preserved over the years, has been rehabilitated and used as museum, at present it holds an exhibition of ancient weapons arranged by the “Museo di Stato della Repubblica di San Marino” and the other one of the “Cacciatori e guerrieri dalla pietra all’acciaio” arranged by the “Soprintendenza ai Beni Archeologici per le Marche”. Offagna holds other two museums: Museo Regionale della Liberazione di Ancona in the locals attached to the “Monastero di Santa Zita” ( a construction of the XVIII century realized by the architect Andrea Vici) houses the collection of material concerning the battle of the Second World War for the relief of Ancona. Museo Provinciale di Scienze Naturali “Luigi Paolucci” contains a part of the finds taken from the collections of the great naturalist academic of Ancona (1849-1935). The many and important collections (paleontological, mineralogical, zoological and botanic), are the consequence of a whole life dedicated to studies and research works, his herbarium represents the archive of all plants of Marche known at that time, collected in a period of half a century. In the old town you can admire some buildings realized by the architect Andrea Vici, student and collaborator of Vanvitelli: Chiesa del SS Sacramento (at present it is also used as congress centre which can take up 200 people). Monastero Santa Maria della Visitazione, Chiesa del Monastero delle Salesiane, Canonica della Chiesa San Tommaso. During the “Feste Medievali”, at the last week of July, the village changes completely and the atmosphere of the past revives in the streets and the squares: shows, taverns, the route of art and trades, the alley of fortune- tellers are the scenery for performances, exhibitions and historic recalls.

POLVERIGI
“La Crocifissione”: Gentile Gothic fresco from the XV cent. By Giovanni Antonio da Pesaro c/o “Sala Consiliare”. “ La Deposizione”; Canvas of the XVI cent. By Ercole Ramazzani c/o “Chiesa Parrocchiale”; “Chiesa SS. Sacramento” from the beginning of the XIV cent. Real treasure trove of works of art and remains of frescoed pictorial cycles.

FILOTTRANO
“Museo del Biroccio”: collection of painted Marche agricultural carts (drays). It can be visited upon appointment.

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