Tolentino — Basilica of San Nicola
Province of Macerata
The Basilica of San Nicola da Tolentino is one of the most important sanctuaries in the Marche. The Cappellone, frescoed between 1320 and 1330 by artists from Giotto's school, is an absolute masterpiece of Italian Gothic: 36 scenes from the life of Christ and San Nicola, considered among the most beautiful of the Italian fourteenth century. Tolentino also houses the Museum of Humor in Art, unique in the world, with 4,000 works by international humorists. The Castello della Rancia is a fourteenth-century fortress a few kilometers away.
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At Tolentino, Napoleon imposed a harsh peace on the Papal States
In 1797, the Treaty of Tolentino reshaped the political, territorial and economic balance between revolutionary France and the Pope.
La Rancia Changed from a Fortified Farm into the Da Varano’s Military Stronghold
The castle just outside Tolentino did not begin simply as a fortress: its story starts with rural buildings transformed in the 14th century.