The Gate of the Levant, also called “door of Burgo”, or “port of St. George” from an image of the patron saint of the town (now completely faded), painted in a special box which is still visible on the face (similar examples , and far more illustrious of the city gates placed under the protection of St. George are the Porta San Giorgio in Florence and Schwabthor of Freiburg im Breisgau): the…

The oldest part of the Church of the Annunziata, dating back to 1265, when the chaplain of the church of St. Paul, located outside the walls, obtained by Rainaldo bishop of Ascoli, to carry his parish in the castle and had by the bishop himself the first stone of the new church. A precisely record the presence of a church of St. Paul in castro is to consider the news, that the…

The history of the theater in Amandola along paths similar to those of the whole region. If the first hints of profane representations can be identified by the middle of the fifteenth century, Amandola as in the rest of the region, the first permanent theater for an audience sensitive to the culture and the new era dating from the middle of the next century. The original documents reported by Ferranti (1891) concerning…

Situated in the locality Marsia. Rises above a promontory side apse that looms above the road 78 is the only component of external buoyancy showing still retains its original shape. The wall, all built in ashlars of sandstone, has been detected by a semi-circular apse plan. To tighten the apse are observed the two symmetrical pairs of mullioned windows that illuminate the room and the crypt below. The very location of the…

The Church of San Flaviano is located in the hamlet of Capodiripiano of Venarotta, in a center to town. The Church of origin Farfa, has been extended, completely adapted and redecorated in the eighteenth century. It consists of a body in front supported by buttresses and a side tower, with three rooms arched bell and topped by a triangular pediment. Inside, on the left wall of the nave, you can admire an…

Chiesa della SS. Trinità

The church of Santa Maria in Lapide is situated between the villages of Forca and Migliarelli. The current layout of the original church, which remain the head cross and some highly valuable structural and decorative elements of the facade of the disappearance and equally lost lateral sides of the nave, has been involved in building a campaign that resulted in the almost total reconstruction in the second half of the century. XV…