Google
Web City Travel Guide   
 ->   ->   -> 

Ancona travel guide — Ancona tourism and travel information

Welcome to Ancona Travel Guide, extensive source of tourist information and travel services offer related to Ancona and Italy. Book cheap hotels, cheap flights and get car rental. We also offer Ancona travel guide books and maps and atlases. Please visit Italy travel guide for more travel and tourism iformation and attractions in the Italy.

our Ancona travel guide — Ancona tourism and travel information content

  1. Ancona travel and tourist guide
  2. Ancona travel services
  3. Ancona travel books

latest Ancona and Italy discussion posts

Join our comprehensive travel discussion board! Share your Ancona and Italy travel experience! Our Ask and Answer forum is geographically divided, the team of editors world-wide is ready to answer your questions.

Ancona travel guide

search in books:  

Search discount Ancona travel books in all books. You can also browse and buy directly Ancona city guide and Italy travel guide books, Ancona maps and Italy maps and atlases.

about Ancona

Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of northeastern Italy, population 100,507 (2001). Ancona is situated on the Adriatic Sea and is the center of an eponymous province.

The city is located 132 miles northeast of Rome and 127 miles southeast of Bologna.

The town is finely situated on and between the slopes of the two extremities of the promontory of Monte Conero, Monte Astagno, occupied by the citadel, and Monte Guasco, on which the Duomo stands (300 feet). The latter, dedicated to St. Cyriacus (S. Ciriaco), is said to occupy the site of a temple of Venus, who is mentioned by Catullus and Juvenal as the tutelary deity of the place.

Ancona history

The ancient town was founded by refugees from Syracuse about 390 BC, who gave it its name: Ancona is a very slightly modified transliteration of the Greek Αγκων, meaning "elbow"; the harbor to the east of the town was originally protected only by the promontory on the north, shaped like an elbow. Greek merchants established a purple factory here (Sil. Ital. viii. 438). In Roman times it kept its own coinage with the punning device of the bent arm holding a palm branch, and the head of Aphrodite on the reverse, and continued the use of the Greek language.

When it became a Roman colony is doubtful. It was occupied as a naval station in the Illyrian war of 178 B.C. (Liv. xli. i). Julius Caesar took possession of it immediately after crossing the Rubicon. Its harbour was of considerable importance in imperial times, as the nearest to Dalmatia, and was enlarged by Trajan, who constructed the north quay, his architect being Apollodorus of Damascus. At the beginning of it stands the marble triumphal arch with a single archway, and without bas-reliefs, erected in his honour in A.D. 115 by the senate and people.

Pope Clement XII prolonged the quay, and an inferior imitation of Trajan's arch was set up; he also erected a lazaretto at the south end of the harbour, Vanvitelli being the architect-in-chief. The southern quay was built in 1880, and the harbour was protected by forts on the heights.

After the fall of the Roman empire Ancona was successively attacked by the Goths, Lombards and Saracens, but recovered its strength and importance. It was one of the cities of the Pentapolis under the exarchate of Ravenna, the other four being Fano, Pesaro, Senigallia and Rimini, and eventually became a semi-independent republic under the protection of the popes, until Gonzaga took possession of it for Pope Clement VII in 1532.

From 1797 onwards, when the French took it, it frequently appears in history as an important fortress, until Lamoricière capitulated here on the 29th of September 1860, eleven days after his defeat at Castelfidardo.

Near cities to Ancona


Near webcams to Ancona


back to top

Ancona travel services

choose from our international travel services offer:

cheap flights to Ancona

City Travel Guide is exclusive partner of four main cheap airline tickets and cheap flights online booking systems. We are happy to offer cheap airline tickets Ancona, cheap flights Ancona, also available cheap airline tickets to Italy and to the whole world. Up to date cheap flights Ancona deals also available.

cheap Ancona hotels

City Travel Guide is exclusive partner of main cheap hotels and accommodation online booking systems. We are happy to offer cheap hotels in Ancona, Italy hotel guide and cheap hotels and accommodation in lot of other world-wide destinations. Up to date cheap Ancona hotel deals and discount accommodation tips also available.

cheap Ancona vacations

City Travel Guide is exclusive partner of main cheap vacations online booking systems. We are happy to offer cheap vacations in Ancona, Italy vacation rentals and cheap vacations in lot of other destinations world-wide. Up to date Ancona vacation deals also available.

cheap car rentals in Ancona

City Travel Guide is exclusive partner of main car rentals online booking systems. We are happy to offer car rentals in Ancona, car hire in Italy and cheap car rental in lot other world-wide destinations. Up to date cheap Ancona car hire deals also available.

Ancona travel insurance

City Travel Guide is exclusive partner of Essential Travel Ltd., leading online travel insurance company, we can offer you health travel insurance for Ancona, accident health Ancona travel insurance, all using our online Ancona travel insurance form. We also offer travel insurance for other cities in Italy. This offer is available for UK residents only.

Ancona real estate

City Travel Guide comes with Ancona real estate guide with several tips on home valuation, realtors comparison, secrets on finding the "right" home, loans guide and other helpful real estate advices. Our partners also maintain Ancona property for sale and rental listings, real estate laws and reviews. We will try to help you with buying property in Italy, choosing real estate agents, property finders, relocation help, and information for English speakers wanting to buy real estate in Ancona.

back to top

Ancona travel books

Ancona travel guide books

search travel guide books:  

Ancona maps and atlases

search maps and atlases:  
back to top

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Ancona".




This city is also known as: Ancona.

Copyright © 2004 City Travel Guide Team. All rights reserved. | contact us | sitemap | links | XHTML and CSS