Ascoli Piceno historic city lying m. 153 above sea level, in the central valley of Tronto river, gives the impression of occupy an amphitheater, covered by three quarters by mountains and hills and open to the sea for the remainder.
Well connected to the rest of Italy from the main roads and railway routes, with Rome through the consular Salaria that arrived in Porto d'Ascoli, meets with state and the Adriatic Highway 14, from the Salaria road begin also the Piceno-Aprutina road to Teramo.
The railway communications are insured through the trunk Ascoli San Benedetto with connections on the line Lecce Milan.
The city has about 56,000 inhabitants, has a well-defined center comprising four historic districts: Sant'Emidio, San Venanzio, San Giacomo and Santa Maria Intervineas.
Land border meeting point of cultures and different peoples, the province of Ascoli also boasts a long and beautiful coastline, low and covered with fine sand and homogeneous, is dotted with delightful seaside resorts and tourism, rich in history and Art as Pedaso, Cupramarittima, Grottammare and San Benedetto del Tronto, known, that as the Riviera delle Palme.
Gentle hills, fields cultivated by creating colorful geometry that degrade towards marine locations.
The province is mountainous in the west end, under the chain of Sibillini culminating in m. 2478 Carrier of Mount the highest peak of the Marches.
The hinterland Ascoli,is still rich of traditions, and today offers tourists a pleasant emotions.
The valleys of Tronto, and Tenna dell'Aso make the area vibrant and changing.
Going up the courses of rivers, meet enchanting villages, on a secluded Picena Acquaviva, in a valley Acquasanta Terme, on the crest of a ridge Apennine Francavilla d'Ete, on a ridge Force, sull'erto side of a ridge Montefortino,all gives the clear impression that the landscape,the history, the art and folklore have maintained in this province the size most natural.
The province Ascoli in its variety of natural environments, sea, mountains, hills and valleys, fascinated tourists and offers him the opportunity to discover a beautiful landscape heritage, an expression of a people that has retained an ideal of life, perhaps elsewhere lost.

In Ascoli Piceno you can visit.
The State Archaeological Museum preserves relics from the prehistoric civilization Picena, Roman until medieval.
The Diocesan Museum collects furnishings and sacred silverware, sculptures in wood and stone and interesting paintings by Carlo Crivelli, Peter Alemanno.
The Pinacoteca Civica holds important paintings by Carlo Crivelli, Titian, Guido Reni, Luca Giordano, Carlo Maratta, Adolfo De Carolis and Domenico Morelli.
The Gallery of Contemporary Art owns one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the region with woodcuts, etchings, paintings and sculptures by famous Italian and foreign artists.

San Benedetto del Tronto

Grottammare

Offida

He kept intact its medieval town-planning and the city center enclosed by walls and battlements.
To visit La Rocca, square fort with two cylindrical towers, the Palazzo Comunale with its elegant structure, the Bell Tower, The theater "Aureo Snake", one of the most elegant of Marche, the Church of Santa Maria della Rocca, a Gothic Romanesque building in brick, its crypt frescoes of the second half of'300 and the sanctuary of St. Augustine.
Offida is famous for the original production of Lace (if they have signs as early as 1476), is held each year from July 20 to August 20 an exhibition dedicated to them

Acquaviva Picena

Place of enormous historical interest, the symbol of the city is the Rocca, certainly one of the most beautiful not only in the Marche. Completing the picture, scrap of castle walls door of the Gothic X century, the church of San Rocco (thirteenth century), the Church of St. Nicholas (XVI century), the church of San Francesco XIII.
We recommend a wine tasting local.

Snow from the coast up to Sibillini Mounts