Jesi
 few steps down Via Pergolesi and you will be in Piazza Colocci and in front of Jesi's most handsome building, Palazzo della Signoria (right). This text-book Renaissance palace was built at the end of the 15thC by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, the Sienese genius best known for his military architecture. The large rampant lion above the entrance is the symbol of the power the city once held.

From here the long main Corso Matteotti runs straight as an arrow to end at an arch built in honour of Pope Clement XII in 1734. In the early evening, stroll with half the town's population for a most civilised passeggiata. On parallel Via XV Settembre stands Jesi's most flamboyant building, Palazzo Pianetti. Apart from its hundred windows, the bland facade little prepares you for the over-the-top Rococo flourishes inside. A visit to the civic art gallery (Pinacoteca Comunale) is obligatory as here is kept a small group of some of Lorenzo Lotto's finest works - The Judgement of Santa Lucia, a Visitation, an Annunciation and a restless Deposition.