The Passetto caves in Ancona are an a-part world. For its inhabitants they are the “beach near your house”. They were dug on the early ‘900 to recover little fishing and pleasure boats and to find a bit of shade during summer sunny days in order to enjoy the seaside so near but difficult to […]
In Ancona port area, and among the numerous historical town vestiges, you will find the “Captain House”. You can reach it walking along the port dock, going towards the right sea side; the building, frankly a bit hidden from the walls serving as port protection, was built up in the second century b.C., when Ancona […]
Ancona Diocesan Museum is located inside of the Palazzo del Vecchio Episcopio (Old Episcope Palace) standing on the top of the Guasco Hill in the prestigious position adjacent to the Roman Cathedral of St. Ciriaco – Ancona Dome whose name is the one of its Patron Saint, symbolizing and testifying the magnificence of the town […]
Coming up from Ancona port, and crossing the Portella di Santa Maria della Dogana (one of the town entrances from the sea), you will already find yourself in the city centre, set in a world magically far from sea life, and where appears towards your eyes the splendid Santa Maria della Piazza Church. It is, […]
When you visit Ancona, an important destination in your tour is Passetto neighbourhood, where there is the War Memorial, one of the main historic monuments of Ancona, better known as Passetto Monument commemorating the second world-war victims. You can reach it coming up from the port, then crossing Cavour Sq. up to the long tree-lined […]
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 […]
