What to see in Tolentino, itinerary including the main monuments and places of interest, including the Basilica of San Nicola, the Duomo, the Church of San Francesco and the Parisani Bezzi Palace.
Tourist information
Spa town in the Marche region located in the Chienti Valley in the province of Macerata, Tolentino has Roman origins.
The Cathedral of San Catervo, city patron, built in the eighth century and rebuilt later, has the Romanesque bell tower and portal, while inside worthy of note are the Baptistery Chapel and the Chapel of San Catervo, containing the latter the sarcophagus with the remains of the saint.
The Basilica of San Nicola, built between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, is characterized externally by a portal from 1435 and by an eighteenth-century facade, with a fifteenth-century bell tower.
In the interior with a single nave and coffered ceiling, there is a chapel on the right that preserves a painting on canvas by Guercino, depicting Sant'Anna and the Angel, while at the end of the nave there is the Romanesque Cappellone di San Nicola, frescoed elegantly by an anonymous painter, known as the Maestro di Tolentino, around 1340.
What see
In the cloister, dating back to the end of the thirteenth century, frescoes of the seventeenth century are kept, while in the Chapel of the Holy Arms the relics of the Saint are preserved.
Continuing the visit you enter the Ceramics Museum, where dishes, decorated vases and objects of Chinese, Etruscan and Romanesque art are kept.
Other places to see are the civic museum, where exhibits dating back to the Iron Age and Roman marble are exhibited, and the ex voto gallery.
In the Church of San Francesco, built in the thirteenth century in Romanesque-Gothic style but later rebuilt, frescoes from the fourteenth century are preserved.
Palazzo Parisani-Bezzi, where peace was signed between Pius VI and Napoleon in 1797, houses the Napoleonic Museum and the International Caricature Museum.
