Ascoli Piceno

Ascoli Piceno is the capital of the Ascoli Piceno Province, and is a pretty good sized city.  Like all Italian cities, I think, it has its old central city and has expanded outward over the centuries.  These pictures are all within three blocks of each other.  The one with the flags is city hall.  We were there on a Saturday, on our way to Bari, so we didn't spend a lot of time.  Good thing, too, since we had our car issue Cindy wrote about and had a slower drive down the coast.

But Ascoli is an old town off the beaten path.  These two churches date from the 12th and 15th centuries, respectively.