Chiesa di Santa Maria in Pantano

Church of St. Michele Arcangelo is located on the town’s main square. The church with a single nave, has undergone many renovations over the centuries. The facade with stone walls on which they insist opening three dead-end, two with figures of saints in wood and a window. The lovely bell tower and the early twentieth century. The interior includes various frescoes and paintings on the wall of the years 1910 to 1915.

The church of St. Francis is located in the hamlet of Borgo. Probably built in 1251, it has a simple façade with two large portals of the XVI century. The interior, divided into two naves by square pillars, has a coffered ceiling, choir, pulpit and altars of the XVI-XVII century. The wooden altars twins facing each other in the two aisles are likely to come out of the workshop nursina that, in…

Porta Sant’Agata

Entering the hamlet of Colle, one of the highest villages in Le Marche region (985 m.), on the top of a hill is located S. Silvestro’s Church. Whilst this Church is a very old one, the temple which was probably built here for ancient naturalistic cults, for sure outdates it (in fact S. Silvestro’s feast is very close to the Winter Solstice). Master Dionisio Cappelli made many frescos inside this chapel, the most beautiful of…

Spelonga is the most populated of all hamlets of the Arquatan territory, characterized by a strong sense of belonging amongst its inhabitants: the “Festa Bella” (“Beautiful Feast”) is the symbol of village participation to the sense of belonging to this beautiful territory. The whole village has a rich and interesting patrimony of ancient houses, which witnesses a history of wealth for many of its families. In Spelonga is located Sant’Agata’s Church, with many frescos…

Palazzo del Podestà

Abbazia dei SS. Rufino e Vitale

Located on the main side of Piazza del Popolo, it is the symbol of the public and administrative life of Offida. The original structure, dating back to the 11th – 12th centuries, has gone through many changes and restorations over the centuries. This brick construction is characterized by a fourteenth-century tower crowned by swallow-tailed merlons on which a turret clock was added later. The main façade displays a particularly charming loggia consisting…

The Theatre was originally located in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall and still today it has not got a personal façade, his entrance being under the main arcade of the Town Hall. The current structure was built in 1820 on the design by Pietro Maggi and underwent renewal in 1862. The theatre displays the shape of a horseshoe, 50 boxes distributed on 3 rows, a gallery and an auditorium recently restored…