What to see in San Ginesio, itinerary including the main monuments and places of interest, including the Pilgrims' Hospital, the Collegiate Church and the Church of San Francesco.
Tourist information
Located in the Marche in the province of Macerata, from which it is 29 km away, in San Ginesio there are the walls dating back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, built with the aim of reinforcing the previous ones of the thirteenth century.
Characterized by towers and bulwarks, they include the fourteenth century Porta Picena, which allows access to the medieval village.
The Pilgrims Hospital consists of a building built in the late 1200s, characterized by an arched portico and a loggia from the 1400s.
The thirteenth-century Church of Sant'Agostino, despite having been restored, has kept its Romanesque-Gothic style intact.
What see
In the former Augustinian convent of the seventeenth century it is interesting to see the large porticoed cloister and the municipal library.
The Romanesque collegiate church, with a Gothic facade, has an interior with three naves and frescoed chapels, as well as a crypt where fourteenth-century frescoes can be admired.
In the fourteenth-century Church of San Sebastiano, now deconsecrated, the Civic Museum with art gallery is set up, where Romante sculptures and inscriptions, Picene relics and remains of a Gallic tomb of the fourth century BC are exhibited, as well as very interesting paintings.
Inside the Church of San Francesco there are remarkable frescoes painted between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
