Ancona

With the I bring to the shoulders we are in plaza of the Republic, where the Theater of the Muses towers imposing risen to new life. Climbing for street Gramsci, to the left of the Theater, it opens of sudden plaza of the Plebiscite, dear to the anconetanis with the name of Plaza of the Pope, because of the great statue of Clemente XII that it guards the "living room" of the city. Difficulty not to notice the side fountain of the statue, whose decorations according to the legend are to point out the heads of the anconetanis that you/they there would have been beheaded.

Always side, to delimit the plaza is the Building of the Government, currently entertaining the Prefecture, from which it seems defenestrati judges, excisemen and other characters they came. Going up again the plaza we meet Building Mengoni Ferretti, the Museum of the City, in the spaces of the ex hospital of St. Thomas of Canterbury, the Civic Tower and in the tallest point the Church of St. Domenico, that guards a Crucifixion of the Titian and an Annunciation of the Guercino.
Still climbing for street Pizzecolli we meet Building Bosdari, center of the Pinacoteca Civica, whose origin is owed to a huge donation of works from the Podesti. After having admired the various rooms of the Pinacoteca, we still continue up to the ex Church of the Jesus, to which put also hand the Vanvitelli in 1743, and to the Building of the Elderly ones, to it before, erect in 1270 and reconstructed in 1647. Still going over we meet the Roman amphitheater, of the first century, it seems you could contain up to 8.000 people. Our turn continues at the street Ferretti, to admire the homonym Building Ferretti, example of architecture of the '500, that it entertains the National Archaeological Museum, rich of deriving finds exclusively from the territory marchigiano. To notice the façade of Building Ferretti, also it attributed to the Vanvitelli. Continuing we reach plaza of the Senate with the stupendous building of the '200 entertaining note the Senate, the church of the SSs. Pilgrim and Teresa and the attached building arcivescovile still center of the Curia Arcivescovile in Ancona. A light slope still to arrive to the cathedral of S. Ciriaco on the hill Guasco, stings hinge from which to be able to dominate the whole city. We will realize well soon there how adjacent to the Cathedral there is the ex Episcopio, now entertaining the Diocesan Museum. A visit is almost to be able to observe valuable works of sacred art mandatory among which the tapestries derived by the sketches of the Rubens. From we are able only here now to go down, even really through street Giovanni XXIII, from which to enjoy of a suggestive panning of the city and his brings. Arrived after all, in S plaza. Maria, another jewel almost hidden of Ancona: S. Maria of the Plaza, admirable example of Romanesque architecture, exactly remained as we will find her since the XIII century.

Returning therefore toward the I bring, it jumps to the eye the surrounded building of medieval origin, following her we will find again there before the arc of Traiano, going up again to the 115 d.C., made to erect from the same Emperor Traiano for work of Damask Apollodoro. Still over another testimony of the passage of the Vanvitelli, the arc Clementino, work in honor of Pope Clemente XII. Always inside the I bring and always remaining in theme of works vanvitelliane, we find the Massive structure, an important base pentagonal fortitude note to the anconetanis as "quarantine hospital", suggestive for position and history. In the time in fact his/her use you/he/she is varied enormously, from barracks in zone of quarantine for commodities and passengers coming from place to risk (from here the name "Quarantine hospital"), passing for store of tobaccos and today center of important shows and cultural events of the city.