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Reached the old town, the entrance of Via Leopardi is found right on Monument to Our Lady in Carrara marble, in memory of the Marian Year in 1954, while on the left is the Tower with the Port of Monte Antico (sec. XV -XVI), access to the historic city.
Going by Leopardi you come to Largo G. Hope, where you can admire a wide view across the valley and surrounding mountains.
Churches and public and private buildings of greater value are located mostly along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, which crosses the entire center in North-South direction.
At its entrance, right, is the Palazzo dei Marchesi Bruti Liberati (seventeenth century) and then immediately left, the Church of Santa Maria della Valle, renovated in the early century. XX when he rebuilt the facade and renovated the interior.
After the Church follows the Piazza Guglielmo Marconi case with the sec. XVI, one of whom was born Adolfo Cellini (writer, theologian, exegete) and Casa Mancini, with emblem on the portal boss.
At the bottom, right, starts away astonished Bonaparte left with the former church of SS. Philip and James (XV), transformed in 1988 to study art and technology.
Turning right you will arrive later on the hill-Belvedere St. Nicholas (m. 508), limited in part by the wall (XV and XVI) in which the tower with battlements Ghibellines. On the highest point stands the Church of St. Nicholas, one of the oldest in the city, with the apse sec. IX, sec portal. XV, renovated internally in sec. XVI.
Taking corso Vittorio Emanuele II, are on the right: Tozzi Casa Conde (eighteenth century), Palazzo Cellini, in neo-Gothic style (mid sec.XIX) with gate B. Vecchiarelli, Casa Faithful (end cent. XVII).
Once you reach Piazza Matteotti, on the left there is Palazzo Massi Mauri (sec. XVIII), in the shape of the hull of the ship with an elaborate balcony with wrought iron railing, the work of F. Tartufoli. To the right are Teodori House, ogival portico with two bays and terracotta del'400, a house of the century. XV on a porch with brick columns and entablature wooden Venetian-style house with a porch on ogival low pillars and columns with Romanesque cannot Renaissance.
Piazza entered Ascanio share, left out into the façade of the Cathedral Basilica, consists of three churches and dedicated to Saints Gregory and Margaret.
The Cathedral was built on a design by G. Modena War, between 1597 and 1623, now shows the octagonal lantern of 1786, the facade dating back to 1842 and the bell tower, erected between 1884 and 1902 to designs by the papal F. Vespignani, characterized by its peak in copper statue of the Redeemer, built in 1901 by Luigi Del Bo foundry in Milan.
The interior has three naves and a Latin cross, is characterized by paintings of the brothers Michelangelo Marcantonio Bedini and dating to the late 50th
In the visit you can admire the seventeenth-century wooden pulpit, made by D. Bonfini by Patrignone, where the dominant motif is formed by the elements of the emblem of
Ripatransone, alternated with panels depicting the 5 Glorious Mysteries.
The decoration of the lantern is very rich, the corners are painted the 4 evangelists while at the top, on gold background, representing the 4 cardinal virtues.
The presbytery has a marble altar of Poscetti in Rome, while on the right wall is a painting representing St. Gregory the Great (sec. XVII) and to the left, the Nativity (sec. XVIII). The bishop's chair is also the work of Bonfini.
Nell'abside you can admire a wooden choir created by Agostilio Evangelists (1620), the imposing statue of St. Gregory the Great and the complex of pictorial Bedini.
The liturgical organ is the work of the famous organ veneto Gaetano Callido (1783), was originally built for the Church of the Magdalene Order of Friars Minor Observant from where it was then moved along with the choir in 1812.
Among the numerous works kept in the cathedral are also relevant: the polychrome wooden crucifix donated, according to tradition, by Pope Pius V in 1571, probably work of Giovan Battista Casignola Como, the wooden altar, the work of M. Angelo Ripano (seventeenth century), the Pala d'altare, by Orazio Gentileschi (sec. XVI-XVII), three paintings, including one depicting the Madonna and Child, S. Peter S. Rocco, S. Anthony of Padua and St. John the Baptist, by Simone de Magistris of Caldarola (1579), the canvas altar Representative Charles Borromeo attributed to the Turks said Orbetto (1623) and the Pala d'altare by S. Ciannavei of Ascoli Piceno (XVIII-XIX).
From the Cathedral you access the Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the S. John, the patron saint of the city since 1893.
The front door was made of copper by C. Capponi in 1950.
The shrine was erected in the years 1846-58 according to plans of stopping G. Carducci, Inside and 4 statues of Luigi Fontana, 5 Murano chandeliers and a wooden two orders of St. Morelli of Montegiorgio.
The niche that houses the miraculous statue, the work of S. Sebastiani, of 1620, was designed by Francesco Vespignani in 1881.
Released by Sanctuary on the right, in Ghislieri, is the crypt of the Cathedral, the tomb of the bishops, built starting in 1597, where, as illustrated by the inclusion sull'architrave, the Confraternity of Mercy and Death had built the Oratory. Inside the tomb of the four bishops of
Ripatransone, on the stele of a Crucifixion polychrome ceramics Ascoli Joseph Marinucci.
Angela Street entrance of Zingaro you can admire the ancient Gallo House, with stone portal tanning, on the lintel of which reads an inscription in 1503.
Taking Corso Vittorio Emanuele, on the left is a Corinthian column of 1658 and, right, Brown House (sec. XV-XVI), home of Ascanio Condie, first biographer of Michelangelo, with a small balcony and windows elegant cross Guelph.
Opposite stands the Church of St. Augustine (sec. XV-XVIII), now desecrated and turned into first room and then in the Conference Room Cinematografica. The Campanile has gothic elements.
Since 1992, the convent is adjacent houses the Town with documents from 1572.
Continuing meet Palazzo Lupidi-Boccabianca (sec. XVII-XVIII) and Palazzo Tassoni-Gera, restored in sec. XIX, birthplace of the sculptor One Gera.
Once in Piazza XX Settembre, with travertine balustrade, you are in front of the Palazzo Municipale (XIII), which retains almost nothing of its original structure.
On the front, with double staircase, you see a portal surmounted by a bosses stemma comunale marked by a lion in five packages, two closed-arms of the Loggia of the elderly, and a sundial on the wall.
On the ground floor houses the Archaeological Museum and the Biblioteca Comunale.