The Church of Saint Lucia is located in Montalto delle Marche. Built in the second half of the sixteenth century, it has a bell tower of the century. XV-XVI (famous for its slope). The fragments of the frescoes that once decorated the cell tower and attributed to Fra’Marino Angels today are exposed in the Municipal Art Gallery. Inside you can admire, on the main altar, the beautiful painting of the “Madonna and…

The Tower is located in Montalto delle Marche. The structure of pentagonal defense by mighty escarpment at the base that was intended to absorb and deflect the blows of the mortars, is crowned with battlements of invoice ghibellina built above a row of corbels where the defenders could, shelter, work, and fight back. Of fourteenth century, was updated in four remedied, in addition to the massive escarpment, also of different bomber and…

The church of Santa Maria Assunta is the cathedral of Montalto, and one of the two concattedrali the diocese of San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto. In 1965 it was elevated to the rank of minor basilica by Pope Paul Diocese of Montalto was founded by Pope Sixtus V in 1586 and the existing church of Santa Maria was built in Collem to provisional cathedral. The construction work of a new and larger cathedral…

The mill, known as Mint of Sixtus V, is located in the middle Aso Valley. The building probably dates back to the fourteenth century, according to the findings from the examination of the Historical Hall, manufacturing and aesthetics of the building. The mill, stone not square, is on three levels: the first, to contain ambiguities compartment, with pointed vault, for the grinding, as evidenced by the millstones still exist; the second, now…

Ex Chiesa di Sant’Agostino

Palazzo Sacconi of Montalto delle Marche was built by local craftsmen in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it owes its name to the accounts Sacconi, who came from Porchia, a hamlet of Montalto, where they settled in the early eighteenth century. Surveyed in the Gregorian land registry in 1815, in 1887 a part of the building was bought by the grandchildren of Cardinal Carlo Sacconi, James and Stanislaus. Bishop Vincenzo Radicioni, in…

Bonfini palace is located in Patrignone fraction of Montalto delle Marche. The Palace was built by Antonio Bonfini. In the lower part of the village, overlooking timidly on one corner of the square, near the south gate. The front, in full Renaissance style, is characterized by three rows of windows in travertine that the second and third floors are decorated with rear windows with floral motivs.

In the hamlet Patrignone, outside Montalto, it is the Romanesque-Gothic church of Santa Maria in Viminatu, characterized by the presence of interesting cycle of Renaissance frescoes. The “Nativity” and “The Adoration of the Magi” painted on the left wall of the interior, are probably the work of Fra ‘Angels Marino (1459), and is usually attributed to Vincenzo Pagani or one of his pupils the beautiful Lady of Mercy of the XVI century….

Chiesa della Madonna Tonna

The Museum of the Prisons of Presidato Sistine located in an intermediate level between the ground floor and the first floor of the town hall, has built essential furnishings reconstructed on the basis of a Inventarium 1604 that together with Graffitii and drawings on the walls of the inmates cells, contributing to the recovery of the historical dimension of the environment. Inside it installed a sound system with which you tell the…