Ancona, the capital of the Marche

The provincial capital of the Marche region, Ancona with its commercial port, is an important city located between two hills, the Monte Conero and Monte Astagno. Its port famous since ancient times, is still important today for both commercial and tourist ships.

I start visiting the city from the great arch of Trajan, an important archaeological finds from the era of the ancient Romans. I continue my visit with the Cathedral of the city erected in honor of San Ciriaco in 1128 and one of the most important finds of the Roman era. While the Mole Vanvitelliana erected in 1732 by Luigi Vanvitelli has a particular pentagonal shape.

The church of Santa Maria della Piazza, on the other hand, was erected between the eleventh and twelfth centuries and is a remarkable example of Romanesque style. The buildings of Giorgio Orsini from Šibenik are also of great artistic and cultural value, whose large portal is accompanied by a frame adorned with twenty heads and two pillars with the inside the statues of saints.

Inside it preserves “the Altarpiece of the Assunta” by Lorenzo Lotto and other paintings by Andrea Lilli and Pellegrino Tibaldi. Finally, always the work of Giorgio Orsini from Šibenik I visit the church of Sant'Agostino with its Gothic-Venetian portal, the facade of the Palazzo del Senate and the Loggia dei Merchants.