Ancona
City of Art
General Information
Other Name: -, District: NA, State: Marche, Italy
Area: 123.71 km²
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Importance: At present Ancona is an important traffic junction (railway; airport ).
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Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of central Italy.It is an important port city on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.Its cathedral, however, is set on the mountain overlooking Ancona and still worth a look. There is also a monument built by Mussolini on the waterfront. Ancona is a city of art with magnificent views of the beach.Location
The city is located 210 km northeast of Rome and 200 km southeast of Bologna.Climate
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Built on the site of a temple of Venus.The domed cruciform church in Byzantine-Romanesque style (12th century) is dedicated to San Ciriaco. The façade has a Gothic doorway, which is decorated with reliefs.
The Palazzo Ferretti (16th century) in Ancona houses the Museo Nazionale delle Marche (state-run museum of the Marche region) with prehistoric and Roman material of the Marche region, particularly finds of tombs, such as vases, etc.
From the Piazza della Repubblica in Ancona a street on the right leads past the theater (1826) into the elongated Piazza del Plebiscito. In this square stands the Palazzo de Governo (15th century) with the prefecture and, approached by a flight of steps, is the Baroque church of Santa Domenico (18th century); inside can be seen a painting of the crucification of Christ by Titian.
In the Piazza della Madonna in Loreto, with a beautiful 17th century fountain, stands the Santuario della Santa Casa, a Gothic hall-church with a fortress-like exterior begun in 1468 under Pope Paul II and continued in 1479-86 by the Florentine Giuliano da Maiano; the dome dates from 1500. The handsome facade, showing influence of Late Renaissance, was added in 1583-87. The three bronze doors are decorated with figures and bas reliefs. A bronze statue of Pope Sixtus V stands on the left in front of the facade.