By Air

Ancona is served by Ancona Airport (IATA: AOI, ICAO: LIPY), an airport located in Falconara Marittima and named after Raffaello Sanzio.

By Train

Ancona "Centrale" is the main railway station of the city and is served by regional and long distance trains.The other stations are Ancona Marittima, Ancona Torrette, Palombina and Varano.

By Ferry

The Port has regular ferry links to the following cities with the following operators Adria Ferries (Durres),Blue Line International (Split, Stari Grad, Vis),Jadrolinija (Split, Zadar),SNAV (Split) (seasonal),Superfast Ferries (Igoumenitsa, Patras),ANEK Lines (Igoumenitsa, Patras),Minoan Lines (Igoumenitsa, Patras) and Marmara Lines (Cesme).

By Road

The A14 motorway serves the city with the exits "Ancona Nord" (An. North) and "Ancona Sud" (An. South).

By Bus

The Ancona trolleybus system has been in operation since 1949. Ancona is also served by an urban bus network.

Arches of Trajan, Palace of the Elders, Church of Jesus, Benincasa Palace, Herbal Market, Cardeto Park, Roman amphitheater of Ancona, Festival of the Sea

Arches of Trajan

were built in the manner of triumphal arches (although they do not celebrate military victories) in a number of places in the Roman Empire during the reign of Trajan, probably constructed by his chief architect, the engineer Apollodorus of Damascus. By contrast, when it came to commemorating his military achievements in Rome itself, he chose a column rather than the more standard arch.

Palace of the Elders

is an important building of the city.It is located in Stracca Square, opposite the church of Jesus.It was the historical seat of the city right from the Magistrates Early Middle Ages and from the eleventh century with the birth of the Republic of Ancona, was the place where he met the Council of Elders, which takes its name.The building has ancient origins, historical notes, was built by Galla Placidia (governor of the Empire and then the maritime Pentapolis as guardian of her son Valentinian III ) in 425 AD and later demolished by the Saracens in the year 839.The present building was erected in 1270 and designed by Margaritone of Arezzo, as mentioned by Giorgio Vasari, in the style of the Romanesque - Gothic and later changed much. Built in very steep terrain, is somewhat peculiar in its architectural form.Later the building became the Town Hall until 1947 and then, until 1998, was one of the locations of the Polytechnic University of Marche, in particular the economics faculty.In this palace on 15 July 1970, was signed the twinning between the towns of Ancona and Split ( Croatia ), the two mayors, respectively, and Alfredo Clovers Milicic.

Church of Jesus

The building was built in 1605 on the Earl Nappi.In 1631 it was added to a boarding school.In 1743, the architect Luigi Vanvitelli, in the process of modernization of the city, commissioned by Pope Clement XII, also puts in this church, as well as the Mole Vanvitelliana el arched Clementino, all works that are located in the port of Ancona.For many years the building was closed to the public and waiting for the last of the interior restoration.On 1 September 2011 has again been reopened to the public in events related to the XXV National Eucharistic Congress, and on this occasion it has been reported in the paintings kept in the first municipal art gallery after the restoration of those still in situ.

Benincasa Palace

is one of the most important palaces Ancona.The palace is spread over a length of more than fifty feet in a pattern that follows the curve of the road. It consists of three floors. The ground floor features a beautiful arched porch, the brick and white stone of the Conero with refined reliefs moldings that frame the arches. The two upper floors, brick, each one presents an elegant series of mullioned windows , lost during the First World War , where he was also destroyed the valuable Palace Triumphs (adjacent to the left side), were rebuilt on the original drawings by George Sibenik during restoration of 1926. The third floor, the lower, was added in the eighteenth century, during the same period were frescoed ceilings of the halls by the painter Lombardo Giuseppe Pallavicini them decorated with rare views of Ancona, now even more valuable because it remains an important aspect of the testimony city ​​before the wartime destruction of the two wars.

Herbal Market

is a structure in iron and iron built in the mid- twenties by the workers of the shipyard using the metal part of the ship Austrian captured and abandoned, with the express purpose of covering the existing plaza. It is located along the top of Corso Mazzini (Old Course), centrally located and easily reachable from any other point of historical and cultural part of the city Delin Doric.As the name suggests, the building has been and is still used as the indoor city market, but the host structure, in perfect and exquisite art nouveau style , is of great artistic and architectural value, which is why, as part of the redevelopment project the old town of Ancona (already started), the herb market is destined to become an anchor for the culture and the aggregation of the city. There is still a final project, but most would like to recover the style property in Covent Garden in London , together with the recovery of many mosaics from the Roman period ( first century BC - I century AD ) found in Corso Mazzini during the work for implementation of the market in 1926.

Cardeto Park

is the largest urban park of Ancona.On the sea, occupies the top of the hills and Capuchin Cardeto and spans an area of about 35 acres, all near the center.Includes places of historical, natural surroundings of great interest and many vantage points on the high coast and the city.The opening of the park is the result of pressure from the citizens, who had long called for the establishment of the park, and also the municipal administration, which has managed to overcome numerous bureaucratic obstacles.On 25 July 2010 the park was dedicated to Franco Scataglini in the 80th anniversary of the birth of the poet.

Roman amphitheater of Ancona

It is assumed that its construction began during the period of Emperor Augustus in the late first century BC, then modified during the period of Trajan ( the first century AD ).Perhaps his most inner square ashlar, belonged to a greek theater of the period.His most radical transformation, there are indications of architecture, belongs precisely at the time of Trajan or Flavian.Rediscovered in 1810, in 1930 thanks to the excavations of the Superintendent, to which were added specifically finance ministry issued after the earthquake of 1972.In recent times it has become a meeting place where listening to poems and lyrics.The auditorium, with its 20 tiers of seats arranged in 3 orders, rested in part on the marl rock trimmed to accommodate the structure, and partly of cement manufactured in high times.People that could accommodate such a structure have been estimated in the 10,000 spectators.There were two entrances: the Port pumped, for the soldiers, and Libitinensis, consecrated to the goddess who presided over the passage to the afterlife, from which came the dying and dead.

Festival of the Sea

The sea festival is held the first Sunday of September and consists of a lively procession of hundreds of boats from the port go off to honor the fallen of the sea with a religious ceremony.On the ground shows, parades, concerts and exhibitions "Arches", the seaside district of the city.Concludes the day a much-anticipated fireworks show, mirrored waters of the harbor.The festival of the sea has been the catalyst for other recent initiatives, but already very popular: around the first Sunday in September, play the multicultural music festival "Adriatic Mediterranean" (born from the transformation of the klezmer festival) and Conero spectacular racing.

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