Sassoferrato (Marche): what to see


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What to see in Sassoferrato, itinerary including the main monuments and places of interest, including the Castle, the Church of Santa Maria del Piano, the Church of San Francesco, the Archaeological Museum of Palazzo Priori and the Santa Chiara Monastery.


Tourist information

Famous for the production of apricots and located along the course of the Sentino in the Marche in the province of Ancona, Sassoferrato is a country made up of two parts, the medieval one with the castle, built on a hill in the early years of the year 1000, and the village of the thirteenth century, built near the place where Sentinum was located, an ancient Roman city.

First fief of the Este, later it was lordship of the Feltreschi family, before passing under the dominion of the Church.


In the village there is the sixteenth-century Church of Santa Maria del Piano, externally characterized by a noteworthy facade of 1618, built in two-tier terracotta, and by an interior that preserves works by Ercole Ramazzani and Paolo Agabiti from Sassoferrato.

In the Church of San Francesco, dating back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, there is a Crucifix on a table by the Rimini school and frescoes by the Fabrianese school placed in the apse, made between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

What see

The municipal library, the international institute of Picene studies and the contemporary art exhibition are housed in the fifteenth-century Palazzo Oliva.


The Palazzo dei Priori, built in the fourteenth century and remodeled in the sixteenth, houses the Archaeological Civic Museum, where archaeological finds, paintings and precious reliquaries dating back to the end of the 1400s are preserved.

The Montanari Palace houses the Museum of Popular Art and Traditions, which collects objects that tell the traditions of the Marche hinterland.

The Monastery of Santa Chiara, built in the thirteenth century, contains two Madonnas of Sassoferrato, while in the attached church there is a fresco depicting the Nativity, a work by the Marche school of the fifteenth century, and an Annunciation by Antonio da Fabriano located in the Sacristy.

In the single nave interior with side chapels of the Church of San Pietro there are remarkable works by Agabiti.

Sassoferrato - Carta Stampata, Marche, Potere (February 2024)


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