A un passo dalla piazza, Ascoli Piceno

A un passo dalla piazza: location

The property is on Via Tito Afranio in Ascoli Piceno. The city's main square is Piazza del Popolo, paved entirely in travertine and surrounded by loggias, at the heart of the historic city.

What to see near A un passo dalla piazza

Corso Mazzini follows the line of the Roman decumanus. Excavations begun in 2013 during the resurfacing of the street brought to light, near the foundations of Palazzo Parisani and Palazzo Gallo, a Roman wall more than thirty meters long, the travertine paving of the Augustan-age decumanus and, two meters lower, an even older cobbled road. The same works uncovered the 14th-century walls of the convent of Sant'Onofrio, demolished in the early 20th century.

The monumental area of San Francesco has also changed greatly over the centuries. In Roman times it held numerous rooms, perhaps used for trade, with large dolia (storage jars) for food and small drainage channels; after a destruction, perhaps a late Roman fire, the area remained abandoned until the 12th century. Excavations there also found a 14th-century kiln that produced simple tableware for the friars' refectory, which collapsed with the pots of its last firing still inside.