Ascoli Piceno in the South of the Italian Marche region

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Piazza del Popolo © flickr.com - Alessandro Bonvini/cc-by-2.0

Piazza del Popolo © flickr.com – Alessandro Bonvini/cc-by-2.0

Ascoli Piceno is a town and comune in the Marche region of Italy, capital of the province of the same name. Its population is around 50,000 but the urban area of the city has more than 105,000. Ascoli has good rail connections to the Adriatic coast and the city of San Benedetto del Tronto, by highway to Porto d’Ascoli and by the Italian National Road 4 Salaria to Rome.

The town lies at the confluence of the Tronto River and the small river Castellano and is surrounded on three sides by mountains. Two natural parks border the town, one on the northwestern flank (Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini) and the other on the southern (Parco Nazionale dei Monti della Laga).

The central historical part of the city is built in marble called travertino, a grey-hued stone extracted from the surrounding mountains. Its central Renaissance square, Piazza del Popolo (“Square of the People”) is considered one of the most beautiful in Italy. According to traditional accounts, Ascoli Piceno was home to more than two hundred towers in the Middle Ages: today some fifty can still be seen.

Carnival at Ascoli Piceno © Tommaso Manzi/cc-by-sa-3.0 Palazzo del Governo © MarkusMark/cc-by-sa-3.0 Palazzo del Comune © MarkusMark/cc-by-sa-3.0 Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo © MarkusMark/cc-by-sa-3.0 Olive all'ascolana (stuffed olives) - typical recipe from the Marches © Manuela Zangara/cc-by-sa-3.0 Piazza del Popolo © flickr.com - Alessandro Bonvini/cc-by-2.0
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Olive all'ascolana (stuffed olives) - typical recipe from the Marches © Manuela Zangara/cc-by-sa-3.0
Recent industrialization has brought to Ascoli several Italian and multinational companies but the bulk of the economy is made up of small and medium sized enterprises and by those providing professional services to the area. Agriculture is still important (wheat, olives, fruits).

The main festivity is on the first Sunday in August. The historical parade with more than 1500 people dressed in Renaissance costume is held in celebration of Saint Emidio, protector of the city. The parade is followed by a tournament, called Quintana, in which six knights, each competing for one of the six neighborhoods in the city, ride the course one after the other trying to hit an effigy of an Arab warrior. Strength and ability are necessary for the knight to win the palio or grand prize.

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