Palazzo Malaspina

Palazzo Guiderocchi

Biblioteca Tomistica di Sant’Alessio

Ex Convento di San Francesco

Situated in the center of the country, the Church of San Giovanni Battista is a Romanesque building dating from the first half of the fourteenth century; entirely in brick, robust, reddish in color, it has elements of the Renaissance because of repeated renovations over the centuries XV and XVI. The primitive building is very old, perhaps the eleventh century; currently corresponds to the right side door. Lintel in travertine shows: HIC EST PORT PARADISE (Here is the gate…

The Church of St. Michael the Archangel was built by Lombard masters in the fifteenth century, following the stream all’esondazione Chifente, which destroyed the convent of the Franciscan friars. It was completely rebuilt from 1890 to 1909 on the initiative of the parish priest Don Giovanni Benedetti, drawing on the Capuchin Fra ‘Angelo Cassano d’Adda. The work continued in the following years (in the period 1916-20 the interior was frescoed by Giuseppe Pauri) and the consecration…

The Church of Santa Maria del Santo Plan or commonly called the “Cona” is located outside the town. In some deeds of the fifteenth century the district where it is referred to as “Planum Sancti Thomae”, probably because of the extensive possessions of the church of the Lateran ascolana St. Thomas. Therefore, the name of the church is explained by the fall of the name ‘Thomas’ (as in the case of the adjacent district ‘holy lake’). The…

Elegant building in brick, with a bell tower with its elegant and clean. The building, with a tower civic kind in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II in the late seventeenth century, was built towards the end of 1700. The palace was built in the place where once stood the imposing castle Force, dating the twelfth century.

The Collegiate Church of Saint Paul, the result is a solid and elegant portico of the sixteenth century, crowned by a loggia buffered which currently hosts the headquarters of the rectory. Of medieval origin, the Church of the Monastery was elevated to Collegiate Eminent by Urban VIII in 1632; is built on the foundations of an older building, dating from the twelfth century., which it has been preserved only the apse rebuilt…

The church of St. Francis, whose construction began in 1882, designed by the famous architect Giuseppe Sacconi. The church rises majestically on the site where once stood the Monastery of the Franciscan friars, built in 1272, which today remains the bell tower of the thirteenth century and two lions, which once had to protect the door of the church. The Franciscan Monastery also worked the Venetian painter Carlo Crivelli, who worked long…