During the late fifteenth century the whole area experienced a sharp increase in population which resulted in a widening of the walls of about ten meters out. The most significant expansion occurred in the north-east, south-west (Via Mazzini) and western (district of St. Francis) where this tower was erected, which was so called (Tower of the Old Slaughterhouse) because it belonged to the benefit of ‘altar dedicated to St. Mark’s in the…

The Church of St. Philip Blacks is located in Piazza Antognozzi entrance of the historic center of Montefiore dell’Aso. The church, built in the south east of the town around 1573 and took the name of Santa Maria del Monte, had the present form around the middle of 1700 with the addition of the aisles and the apse. Inside the church there is a large number of rare relics six eighteenth century.

Located about 4 km from Montefiore Aso, along the provincial road Montevarmine towards Carassai, at the intersection with the provincial St. Joseph in Contrada Menocchia, is the Church of Santa Maria of the Faith. The Church was built in 1421 as documented by historical sources and according to these sources was built on the site where was sanctioned peace between the towns of Fermo and Ascoli. Inside the church is a fresco…

The first monastery of the Dominican Sisters, founded by Venerable Sr. Maria Hyacinths Netherlands November 15, 1695, was built at the behest of citizens at the center of the country, thanks to the generous donation of the house of Dr. montefiorano. Maurizio Maurizi. The complex was completed by the Romanesque church of St. Mary, a gift to the Sisters of the Municipality of Montefiore. It became insufficient for the large number of…

One kilometer from Montefiore Aso, along the provincial road Montevarmine towards Carassi, Menocchia in the district, there is the rural church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, more commonly called “Madonnetta”. In the past he was also known as “Our Lady of watermelons.” The religious building was built in 1646, in 1717 was extended with the realization of an extension which acts as a porch. On the altar stands a seventeenth-century fresco depicting…

In the external apse of the Collegiate of Saint Lucia it has entered an interesting stone portal, called “Portal of Pinnova”, made up of carved panels of the eleventh century with stylized figures of warriors in arms and on horseback and symbolic animals.

The Art Gallery staged with modern technologies is on the top floor of the municipal building. In it you are collected vestments of various kinds, paintings and works of various kinds from the dispersion and saved all systematically restored. Among the most interesting furniture and clothes of Magistrates (called priors) of the end of ‘500, the gold medals that Pope Sixtus V in support of their clothing; the penny of the mint…

The Church and Monastery of St. Clare, are the place of cloistered Poor Clares Urbaniste. It was once again the Pope Sixtus V, who had been, before ascending to the throne of Peter, just in the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, who wanted to enrich Montalto of a female monastery, provided with assets from which to draw fruits get in the life of the cloister even women without a dowry. The June…

Palazzo Paradisi

The Archaeological Museum of the Territory of Cupra exposes the most interesting materials from excavations in the territory by the Archaeological Superintendency of the Marche and by the very interesting activities, about thirty years dall’Archeoclub local. And ‘it divided into 3 sections: Prehistoric, Picena and Roman. Prehistoric section, consists of stone tools dating from the Lower Paleolithic, Middle and Upper, Mesolithic and Neolithic. It is dall’Archeoclub local artifacts collected over the course…