B&B La Collina su Ascoli, Ascoli Piceno

B&B La Collina su Ascoli: location

The property is on Via Valle Venere, in the municipality of Ascoli Piceno.

What to see near B&B La Collina su Ascoli

Just outside the historic center, in the Porta Maggiore area, is the Ponte di Cecco. Built in the 1st century BC where the banks of the Castellano offer solid, closely spaced buttresses, it was Ascoli's first masonry bridge and allowed the Via Salaria to continue to Castrum Truentinum on the Adriatic coast; its strategic importance was underlined by a fortress.

Built of large rusticated travertine blocks, it is 43 m long and 4.5 m wide and has two asymmetrical arches: the larger measures 14.5 m, twice the smaller one. A medieval legend says it was built in one night by the poet and astrologer Cecco d'Ascoli; in reality, in 1349 Mastro Cecco Aprutino strengthened it and connected it to the Malatesta Fort. Its present appearance is due to the postwar reconstruction, after its destruction in 1944.