The city of Macerata rises on the hills that divide the two go them parallels of the rivers Chieti to South and Power to North.
Macerata is one of the centers culturally more lives us of the zone; with its historical center grown above all in the 500 conserve still the traces of the ancient roman city of Helvia Ricina, from which it has origin.
Visit Macerata can be the occasion of enjoy for one Sunday tour to the standard of the medieval beauties and the rich marchigiana local tradition. The plant of the city center has a trapezioidale shape, shape that comes designed from walls of the city erected during XIV the century.
In order to enter in the center of Macerata it is necessary to cross one of the monumental doors that interrupt the town-walls of wall medieval. In Saint Public square Vincenzo Strambi the basilica of the Madonna of the Misericordia rises that it has inner decorates to you with precious putties, marbles, paintings and wrought irons.
In Saint Public square Vincenzo Strambi the cathedral of XVIII formed century three can always be visited navate. But the command post of Macerata can be considered Public square of the Freedom where we find the greater part of the buildings and the more important palaces: between which the Palace of the Common one.
One of the main beauties of Public square of the Freedom is the porticato one, where we find fragments of sculptures, situated coming from statues and stone to death of roman age from the archaeological ones of Helvia Ricina and Urbisaglia. Of forehead to the Communal Palace the building of the University of Macerata rises, founded in XVI the century is one of most ancient of Italy.
To the left of the public square we find the Tower of the Red clock and the Theatre of XVIII the century.
On Matteotti Course the splendid Loggia of the Merchants is found, building of the five hundred. To the Civic Museum of the city they are conserved meant reperti antichi of the civilizations picene and Roman to you beyond to one rich documentation on the local history of the city of Macerata.
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