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City of Ascoli Piceno

Ascoli Piceno (Asculum in Latin Asculë Ascoli in dialect) is a town with 51,238 inhabitants of the Marches, fourth in the region by population after Ancona, Pesaro and Fano, capital of the province and diocese.
The city has an urban area that extends beyond the municipal boundaries and encompasses several other municipalities such as Folignano, Malton, Castel di Lama, Acquasanta Terme, Venarotta, Beaver, Colli del Tronto, Spinetoli, Ancaster and Sant'Egidio to vibrate; throughout the urban area, the population is approximately 100,000. The city's industrial area occupies the valley of the river Tronto, even beyond the regional borders.
Ascoli Piceno is one of the monumental cities of Italy: the old town is entirely built of travertine, a sedimentary limestone rock extracted from quarries in the area, and is centered around the Renaissance Piazza del Popolo where you will find some of the most important buildings in the such as the Palace of the Captains, the historic Caffè Meletti and the church of San Francesco.
Other core city is the urban space of square Arringo, the oldest square in Ascoli, where you raise the medieval Baptistery of San Giovanni, the cathedral of St. Emidio, which encloses the crypt is also dedicated to the patron. There is also the Bishop's Palace, the palace dell'Arengo, home of the civic art gallery and some municipal offices.
Not only are the squares, but also the streets and alleys of the medieval imprint genuinely help to characterize the historic center as a way Praetorian, Solestà street, Via delle Stelle, Soderini way, via the Trivium, old thistle and Corso Mazzini, decumanus maximus from west to east across the city center.
Among the monuments are to remember: the Roman bridge of Solestà, one of the few in Italy, also visited inside the ruins of the Roman theater, the caves of the Annunciation, mammoth construction of the Roman period, the Fortezza Pia and the Forte Malatesta The building with the tower of Lombard Ercolani, one of the few surviving towers of the dozens that appear in medieval chronicles, in memory of Ascoli which has the nickname City of a Hundred Spires.
Worthy of mention are the temples dedicated to the patron such as caves and Sant'Emidio Sant'Emidio Red and also the church of Saints Vincent and Anastasius the characteristic facade divided into panes.
Near the city is the fortress of Castel Trosino, Lombard ancient settlement overlooking the river Castellano, in which the late nineteenth century was found a necropolis of the richest in Italy, where the precious remains are now scattered in various museums in around the world.
Going by the Ascoli Salaria towards Rome, we meet the monumental tree Piccioni mentioned for the first time in a document dated 1109 and linked through history and legend, the city life and the vicissitudes of brigandage antiunitario.

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