Ascoli Piceno is presented as an alter city, placed in a naturally funnel created by the confluence of the river Tronto with the torrent Castellano. City rich of History, art and tradition its imposed immediately in the eyes of the visitor for its particular interest and its undeniable beauty. Its origin goes back in the times far back of the neolithic founds, you truly can affirm that its territory was a refuge and dwelling of our prehistoric ancestors.

During the centuries, Ascoli got more rich by always more new people: from the Sabini, to the Romans to the most recent Frenchmen of Napoleon Bonaparte. Its ascribed to the Sabini the origin of the toponym "Piceno". According to an antique tradition, in fact, these people came to the Piceno, between the VII and the VI centuries. before .Christ., conducted by a Woodpecker ("picus"), holy bird to Mars, and they should be integrated with the native people, giving origin to a new generation: the Piceni. They made of Ascoli the greatest centre of reference to the entire population diffused on the territory. After the Sabini succeed the Romans and the events of Ascoli became those of the Roman Empire, in the good and the bad. Plundered by the Goths, by the Longobardi and by the troops of Frederick II, every time it was presented again as a centre of a great civilization and vitality. Testimony of all that, is offered to the visitor from the energy that shines through its symbolic stone: the travertine. A snow-white and porous stone, with its fascinating chromed colour, what is charming the appearance of a great past. Its old town centre is a miracle of fascination and harmony: the Roman ruins, the Roman churches, the architecture in Gothic art up to the other testimonies of art Renaissance, Baroque or cleric which made of Ascoli the City of the hundred towers" and the "Tebe of Italy". The proposed route foresees a pleasant walk among the artistic pleasures of the city. Starting from the elegant but austere Piazza Arringo (or of the Arengo), on which overlook the Cathedral and the Council Palace, we pass by the romantic and fascinating Piazza del Popolo, where on the right side you’ll find the Church of San Francesco, The lodge with 59 archs on three sides of the square and the oblique of the elements of the facade from the Captains of the People Building make a splash on the eye. The tour follows up to the third fulcrum of the city: Piazza Ventidio Basso, where you will find the benefits improved on the evangelist work of the Padri Domenicani. Along the small streets, through the archs, you reach the striking Via delle Stelle (Stars street), up to the Ponte Romano(Roman Bridge). From there a walk along the bank of the river Tronto before returning to the base Ascoli is not only art: The gastronomy and its crafts reserve to the watchful and expert tourist real pleasant surprises.