B&B La Petrella, Ascoli Piceno

B&B La Petrella: location

The house stands along the Via Salaria, the ancient consular salt road linking Ascoli Piceno to Rome.

What to see near B&B La Petrella

In the city, Via Pretoriana crosses the historic center and climbs toward the ancient Capitolium: it is considered the far end of the Augustan-age cardo maximus. Along the climb there are glimpses of the rue (narrow lanes) and raised passageways, and craft workshops occupy the same premises where mountain folk from the villages of the Valle Castellana once arrived with mules laden with goods.

Among the buildings lining the street are a palazzo with an unfinished 18th-century facade above medieval structures, with two monumental portals and a corner balcony on travertine corbels, and, at number 45, a Renaissance facade taken from a demolished building on Via dei Bonaccorsi, with inscriptions on the lintels of its three portals. Halfway up the slope, a palazzo with a late 16th-century loggia belonged to the Olivetan monks, who in the 18th century started a majolica factory there, later taken over by the family of organ builders and majolica makers that produced the ceramic sculptor Giorgio Paci.