Editing Ancona (section)

==Main sights==

===Ancona Cathedral===
[[File:Cannon in Ancona.jpg|thumb|A cannon situated near the Arch of Trajan, with the [[Ancona Cathedral]] in the background]]
[[File:Ancona, Sa.jpg|thumb|Renaissance Gothic door of the church of Sant'Agostino]]
[[Ancona Cathedral]], dedicated to [[Judas Cyriacus]], was consecrated at the beginning of the 11th century and completed in 1189.<ref>''San Ciriaco – La cattedrale di Ancona'', Federico Motta editore, 2003</ref> Some writers suppose that the original church was in the form of a [[basilica]] and belonged to the 7th century. An early restoration was completed in 1234. It is a fine [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] building in grey stone, built in the form of a Greek cross, and other elements of Byzantine art. It has a dodecagonal dome over the centre slightly altered by Margaritone d'Arezzo in 1270. The façade has a Gothic portal, ascribed to Giorgio da Como (1228), which was intended to have a lateral arch on each side. The interior, which has a crypt under each transept, in the main preserves its original character. It has ten columns which are attributed to the temple of Venus.<ref name="EB1911"/> The church was restored in the 1980s.

===Arch of Trajan===
[[File:Traiano AN 2012.jpg|thumb|upright|Arch of Trajan]]
The [[Arch of Trajan (Ancona)|Arch of Trajan]] is a marble structure {{convert|18|m|abbr=off}} high, but only {{convert|3|m|abbr=off}} wide, standing on a high platform approached by a wide flight of steps, and is one of the finest surviving Roman monuments in the [[Marche]]s. It was built in the year 114/115 as an entrance to the causeway atop the harbour wall and is named in honour of [[Trajan]], the emperor who made the harbour. Most of its original bronze ornaments have disappeared. The archway is flanked by pairs of fluted [[Corinthian column]]s on pedestals. A pediment bears inscriptions. The format is that of the [[Arch of Titus]] in Rome, but made taller, so that the bronze figures surmounting it, of Trajan, his wife [[Pompeia Plotina|Plotina]] and sister Marciana, would figure as a landmark for ships approaching Rome's greatest Adriatic port.

===Other sights===
*''[[Lazzaretto of Ancona|Lazzaretto]]'': the complex was planned by architect [[Luigi Vanvitelli]] in 1732 as a pentagonal building built on an artificial island, also pentagonal, as a quarantine station; it covers more than {{convert|20000|m²|abbr=off}}, built to protect the city from the risk of contagious diseases eventually reaching the town with the ships. Later it was used also as a military hospital or as barracks; it is currently used for cultural exhibits.
*The Episcopal Palace was the place where [[Pope Pius II]] died in 1464.
*''[[Santa Maria della Piazza]]'': medieval romanesque church with an elaborate arcaded façade (1210).<ref name="EB1911"/>
*''Palazzo del Comune'' (or ''Palazzo degli Anziani'' – Elders palace); it was built in 1250, with lofty arched substructures at the back, was gotic work of [[Margaritone d'Arezzo]].<ref name="EB1911"/>
*the ''Palazzo del Governo'' (now prefecture), [[Renaissance]] work of [[Francesco di Giorgio Martini]].<ref name="EB1911"/>
*''Santi Pellegrino e Teresa'': 18th century church.
*''Santissimo Sacramento'': 16th and 18th century church.

There are also several buildings by [[Giorgio da Sebenico]], combining [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] and [[Renaissance]] elements: the ''Palazzo Benincasa'', the ''[[Loggia dei Mercanti]]'', the Franciscan church of ''[[San Francesco alle Scale]]'' and ''Sant'Agostino'', [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] church with statues portraying St. Monica, St. Nicola da Tolentino, St. Simplicianus and Blessed Agostino Trionfi; in the 18th century it was enlarged by [[Luigi Vanvitelli]] and turned into a palace after 1860.

The [[National Archaeological Museum of the Marche Region]] is housed in the Palazzo Ferretti, built in the late Renaissance by [[Pellegrino Tibaldi]]; it preserves [[fresco]]es by [[Federico Zuccari]]. The Museum is divided into several sections:
* prehistoric section, with [[palaeolithic]] and [[neolithic]] artefacts, objects of the [[Copper Age]] and of the [[Bronze Age]]
* protohistoric section, with the richest existing collection of the [[Picentes|Picenian civilization]]; the section includes a remarkable collection of Greek ceramics
* Greek-Hellenistic section, with coins, inscriptions, glassware and other objects from the [[necropolis]] of Ancona
* Roman section, with a statue of Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, carved [[sarcophagus|sarcophagi]] and two Roman beds with fine decorations in ivory<ref name="EB1911"/>
* rich collection of ancient coins (not yet exposed)
[[File:Porto ancona.jpg|thumb|The port of Ancona]]

The Municipal Art Gallery (Pinacoteca Civica Francesco Podesti) is housed in the Palazzo Bosdari, reconstructed between 1558 and 1561 by [[Pellegrino Tibaldi]]. Works in the gallery include:

*''Circumcision'', ''Dormitio Virginis'' and ''Crowned Virgin'', by [[Olivuccio di Ciccarello]]
*''Madonna with Child'', panel by [[Carlo Crivelli]]
*''[[Gozzi Altarpiece]]'' by [[Titian]]
*''Sacra Conversazione'' by [[Lorenzo Lotto]]
*''Portrait of Francesco Arsilli'' by [[Sebastiano Del Piombo]]
*''Circumcision'' by [[Orazio Gentileschi]]
*''Immaculate Conception'' and ''[[Palatias and Laurentia|St. Palazia]]'' by [[Guercino]]
*''Four Saints in Ecstasis'', ''Panorama of Ancona in the sixteenth century'' and ''Musician Angels'' by [[Andrea Lillio]]

Other artists present include [[Francesco Podesti]], [[Ciro Ferri]] and [[Arcangelo di Cola]]. Modern artists featured are [[Anselmo Bucci]], [[Massimo Campigli]], [[Bruno Cassinari]], [[Enzo Cucchi]], [[Carlo Levi]], [[Aligi Sassu]], [[Orfeo Tamburi]] and others.