Strolling

Corso Italia is the starting point of your visit tours to Montegiorgio with the baroque Church of St. Michael the Archangel’s  facade on the left side. Going up you find the Church of St. John the Baptist and Benedict characterized by a nice brick facade classic style. Then a thin nineteenth-century arcade is located in Piazza Matteotti, where Passari Palace  dominates. Just after a flight of stairs you can find the ex Agostinian Monastery, nowadays St. Augustine Palace. The fourteenth-century arch and the small church of Mary of the Angels (5) are just upon the arcade. Then you reach Piazza Alaleona, where there are located: the War Memorial made by Gaetano Orsolini, the Alaleona Palace, the Poor Claire cloister’s church and the ancient Municipal Tower called “palace’s tower”. The “Domenico Alaleona” Theatre  with beautiful frescoes, stuccoes and gildings is just on the left side. The visit goes on reaching the “Pincio”, the top of the town that is dominated by the Church of St. Francis with a limestone portal built in 1325 and the annex: Farfense Side chapel  with particular interesting fresco cycle known as “The cross’ invention”. Nearby the City Hall  built in the fifties. Moving from the “Pincio” you can find the Church of St. James (9) and the Church of St. Andrew. Not to be missed are the enchanting hamlets of Cerreto  and Atleta .