Museo di Storia Naturale
Gagliole
The spouses Paolo Paoletti and Onelia Marasca, in the year 2000, founded the Museum of Natural History. The Museum is famous and known for its palaeontological and mineral collections dating back to the 1960s. Its objective is to make nature known and appreciated to a very wide audience.
Santuario Madonna delle Macchie
Gagliole
The Sanctuary of Madonna delle Macchie is also known as Santa Maria delle Grazie. It was built by Benedictine monks around 1171 and was used by the latter as a dorm for about three centuries. Today it is one of the most visited places of pilgrimage. In addition, it is one of the most beautiful examples of religious and at the same time artistic structure: a perfect combination of art and religion all to see.
Museo della Carta e della Filigrana
Fabriano
(17 Km)
The Museum of Paper and Filigree is located inside the halls of the former Dominican convent. The site collects and exposes the materials that have seen the history of Fabriano's paper, known all over the world. A faithful reproduction of the medieval gualchiera used for the production of paper by hand is exhibited. The exhibition also shows projected video materials and live demonstrations of the production of paper by the master carters.
Museo Civico di Palazzo Cento
Pollenza
(23 Km)
The Civic Museum of Palazzo Cento is located inside the homonymous Palace, built in the 16th century. You can admire the 6th — 9th century BC tombs coming from the necropolis of Moie di Pollenza. To enrich the Museum there are also some Roman finds dating back to the first century BC, among which there is a splendid floor with a painted wild boar hunt scene. The route is completed by some ceramics from the Porta del Colle factory, dating back to the 16th century.
Pinacoteca Comunale
Matelica
(5 Km)
The Municipal Art Gallery is located on the second floor of the historic Palazzo Ottoni. The museum contains works by various Italian and foreign artists. There are about 52 works by the great neoclassical painter Raffaele Fidanza and some paintings that belong to the period between the 18th and 19th centuries representing the famous people of the city.
Museo "Piersanti"
Matelica
(5 Km)
The Piersanti Museum was built in 1918 and included works that belonged to different churches. At the time when Sennen Bigiaretti was director, a large number of works were donated. Very special are the paintings belonging to the period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries donated by the Marchesa Pulcheria De Santis.
Raccolta di Sant'Urbano
Apiro
(18 Km)
The Collection of Sant'Urbano is located within the homonymous Church, a structure of the eleventh century. It presents a collection of works of art of a religious nature, dating from the '500 onwards: paintings, vestments, furnishings and numerous other documents of great historical and cultural importance. They are mainly from gifts from Giacomo Baldini and other characters from the city who owned this type of materials. The exhibition is open to the public.
Chiesa di Santa Margherita
Fiastra
(26 Km)
The Church of Santa Margherita was built at the end of 1300. The interiors were frescoed by the painter Girolamo di Giovanni. The scenes represent, on the one hand, the crucifixion of Santa Margherita and Saint Christopher and on the other the Saints Augustine and Sebastian.
Torre del Cassero
Castelraimondo
(3 Km)
The Torre del Cassero was built between 1311 and 1318 by the will of Raimondo di Attone da Aspello, Rector General of the Anconetana Marca. The building has a structure characterized by a frammist city wall, consisting of another 10 towers apart from the main tower. The property is 38.30 meters high.
I Murales Braccano
Matelica
(4 Km)
To see all these beautiful designs we have to visit the whole city, because they are everywhere. The murals were made by the boys of the Accademia di Brera, and are often restored in order that they are always in good condition.
Torre Onglavina
Treia
(21 Km)
The tower was built during the twelfth century, as part of the homonymous castle, from which nothing left. It is a crenellated structure of polygonal plant, which was built for defensive reasons. During the 1950s, the building underwent a series of restorations and for this reason the building is still in excellent condition today.
Rocca Flea
Gualdo Tadino
(23 Km)
Already mentioned in documents from the twelfth century, it is one of the most important examples of Italian fortified architecture. Enlarged by Frederick II of Swabia and used in the following phases as the residence of the Cardinals Legati, it is now home to the civic museum.
Castello Lanciano
Castelraimondo
(6 Km)
The Giustiniani Castle of Lanciano or simply Castello di Lanciano, dates back to the period around 1240. It was made at the behest of Giovanna Malatesta on an old fortress. Since it has been owned by several owners, its functions and form have been changed over the centuries. Today, for example, this structure is used as a museum and houses various associations within it. Tourists can access it according to the set times.
Pinacoteca "Chiesa di San Giovanni"
Pieve Torina
(22 Km)
The Art Gallery is located inside the church of San Giovanni. Since 1985, many works have been kept inside, including several altarpieces belonging to the Churches of Pomarolo and San Teodora. In addition, of great importance is a cycle of frescoes preserved here, dating back to the second half of the '300. The Art Gallery is open to the public.
Museo della Nostra Terra
Pieve Torina
(22 Km)
The Museum of Our Land is located inside the fifteenth-century convent of Saint Augustine. In the exhibition halls it houses about 5000 objects and tools related to working life in the Macerata hill. The museum is also provided with extensive photographic and paper documentation that traces the artisan history of the peasant shops.
Museo della Civiltà Contadina
Fabriano
(17 Km)
The Museum of Peasant Civilization was founded in 1982 on the farm “La Ginestra” on the Fabrian hill. The museum is set up in the old farmhouse and in the adjacent barn where about two thousand tools are welcomed among Marche wagons, plows and carriages of considerable historical and cultural value.
Deposito Attrezzato Opere d'Arte
Fabriano
(17 Km)
Museo della Farmacia Mazzolini Giuseppucci
Fabriano
(17 Km)
Grande Museo
Fabriano
(20 Km)
The Gran Museo di Fabriano, unique in its kind in Europe, is a varied exhibition of themes, rich in imagination and imagination, which allows you to combine the past with the present. It is spread over an immense area, more than 1500 square meters. The museum is divided by sections depicting from crimes to UFOs, from torture instruments to science fiction.
Pinacoteca Civica "B. Molajoli"
Fabriano
(17 Km)
Since 1862, the “B. Molajoli” Civic Art Gallery houses frescoes from the second half of the twelfth and the first half of the fourteenth century. It presents to the public a collection of paintings by the Fabrian school of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as well as paintings by the Umbrian school of the 12th and 16th centuries. In addition, it preserves the Gothic altar and wooden sculptures of the fourteenth century coming from the Oratory of the Holy Sepulchre in Saint Augustine.
Torre Beregna
Castelraimondo
(4 Km)
The Beregna Tower was built in 1382 by Giovanni da Varano. Initially, it was called Torre Troncapassi. In 1973, the tower was damaged due to severe seismic shocks. In 1979, the structure of the tower collapsed altogether. Currently only the ruins are visible.
Museo dei Fossili e Mostra dei Funghi
Pioraco
(9 Km)
Museo della Carta e della Filigrana
Pioraco
(9 Km)