The Conero coastline is a very wonderful and unique landscape in its gender, where cliffs and mountains fall sheer into the sea. You can find on the internet numerous images illustrating this side of Adriatic coast; but, seeing it and, moreover, living it by yourself is a very unique experience. Too many compliments? We say […]
When you visit Ancona and you go from Roma Sq toward the port driving Mazzini Corso – commonly named old corso by Ancona people – looking on you right hand you will catch sight of the Calamo Fountain, also known as Fountain of the 13 Pipes. This very ancient monument, belonging to Greek period, was […]
On the slopes of Guasco hill, where Ancona supreme Dome stands up (with its supremacy), you can find out the as elegant as majestic Ferretti Palace, also known as “San Pellegrino” because of its vicinity of the St. Pellegrino agli Scalzi Church. Since 1958, it is over there that you can meet Marche Region’s National […]
The Omero Tactile Museum of Ancona is in Tiziano Str. nearby the centre of Marche Region governance offices. The Museum is the only one in Italy allowing the tactile vision of artworks. It has been conceived and realized by Roberto Farroni together with Aldo Grassini and Daniela Bottegoni; it is exclusively addressed to allow the […]
Starting from Pope Square and going up for the narrow and characteristic Pizzecolli Str. – a typical street of the historic city centre – you can meet Bosdari Palace that is the centre of City Picture-Gallery Francesco Podesti. On the half of XVII century the Dalmatian origins family Bosdari achieved the building and transferred over […]
The “City Museum” is the new museum that since 2000 Ancona can show to its visitors. The museum is located in the historic centre of the city and its entry is in the splendid Plebiscito Square generally known as Pope Square; in fact, there stands imperiously the statue of Tuscan sculptor Agostino Cornacchini portraying Pope […]
Ancona is very unique as for its peculiarity, because it is positioned as an elbow on the Adriatic Sea. From Ancona it is possible to see both dawn and sunset over the sea. When Dori from Siracusa erected the city in 387 b.C., they immediately saw that bay sheltered by the mountains, elbow shape positioned […]
High up above the sea there is Cardeto Park, a large area of about 35 hectares close to the centre of the city; it is the largest Ancona urban park and a very precious green reserve. You will find some spots of historical value such as the Diffused Urban Museum, the Jewish Graveyard, the English […]
The Church of Saint Ciriaco stands onto the top of Guasco hill dominating a very spectacular position. It is the main church of the capital of Marche and its name is due to Ciriaco, a saint bishop coming from Armenia. During the second century a.C. Ciriaco was elected as martyr and was elevated to dignity […]
In the neighbourhood Capodimonte – that is one of Ancona hills – it stands “La Cittadella” (Citadel) also popularly known as “Fortezza” (Fortress); it stands forth into the splendid landscape of the port of Ancona. Military building belonging to the Renaissance Age, it was realized during the 1532 on the top of the hill Astagno […]
