The Sestieri in competition

Arms, white and red
Includes the high zone of the city, at the cliffs of the Hill of the Annunziata, once belonging to the quarter of Sant'Emidio and, in part, to that of San Venanzo. Rising in its territory are Pia Fortress, the monumental complex of the Annunziata and of Sant'Angelo Magno, rich in Roman vestiges, and the antique paper mill realized from a design by Cola d'Amatrice. It takes its name from the Plateola on which Sant'Angelo Minore arose, demolished in 1908, (cfr. Papal Bull of 11 July 1256 of Alessandro IV: "Ecclesiam Sancti Angeli Minoris in Platea").

website: www.sestierepiazzarola.it  

Arms, black and green
It takes its name from the homonymous gateway, now demolished, work of Antonio Giosafatti, inaugurated in 1587, and from the antique sestiere of Ponte Maggiore, belonging to the quarter of Santa Maria Interv ineas. The current Sestiere extends for the most part beyond the Ponte Maggiore (bridge), towards the east where before the war much countryside was located, expressing the new urban reality. In its territory one finds the Malatesta Fortress, (where the F ield of the Games is located), placed at a position of guard of the Roman bridge of the first Century BC and called "di Cecco", and the Romanesque church of San Salvatore di Sotto.

Arms, red and blue
Including the western part of the city, more widely extended than the antique sestiere of Porta Romana, once partially included in the quarters of San Venanzo and of San Giacomo. It takes its name from the antique
Porta gemina (Roman gateway) that is opened through the via Consulare Salaria towards Rome, not far from the antique Roman theater.

website: www.porta-romana.it

Arms, yellow and blue
It includes part of the quarter of San Giacomo and the neighborhood beyond the Roman bridge of Augustan era over the Tronto. The urban landscape within the walls (the antique sestiere of Ponte Solestano) are characterized by numerous tower residences, while beyond the Medieval gate, arise the springs of Sant'Emidio, the little temple of Sant'Emidio Rosso, arising on the place of his martyrdom and the convent of San Serafino, the antique Santa Maria in Solestan o within which the Civic Statutes of 1496 were printed (see the Civic Statutes).

website: www.solesta.it

Arms, black and red
It includes for the most part the suburbs located beyond the homonymous gateway, built in 1553 by the architect Camillo Merli. It includes the antique monumental complex of Sant'Antonio Abate (or Saints Pietro and Paolo) and the catacomb zones with the temple by Giosafatti of Sant'Emidio alle Grotte, before which the antique oratory "ad sanctos" of Sant'Ilario, in which one of the first hospitals of the city was once located.

website: www.portatufilla.it  

Arms, red and green
Includes the vast part of the eastern area of the historical center, of the antique quarters of Sant'Emidio and Santa Maria Intervineas, with a small intrusion to the west in the quarter of San Venanzo. It include s the two major town spaces, piazza Arringo (with the cathedral entitled to its patron, the baptistery, the Bishop's palace, the town hall) and piazza del Popolo, heart and open-air living room of Ascolans of every age.

e-mail: santemidio@libero.it