Day trips

Day trips from Ancona

49 towns within 90 minutes

Closest first. Offagna is 24 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.

Offagna
Province: Ancona · 309 m
24 minutes from Ancona. A hilltop borgo at 309 meters between Ancona and Osimo, dominated by a Rocca built in just two years by the Anconitans in 1454-56.
Loreto
Province: Ancona · 127 m
28 minutes from Ancona. A hilltop pilgrimage town at 127 meters above the Adriatic where, since 1294, the Marian sanctuary has guarded the Holy House of Nazareth.
Numana
Province: Ancona · 56 m
30 minutes from Ancona. A Conero coastal town at 56 meters above its port, the Picene harbour that traded with Greek ships from the sixth century BC.
Sirolo
Province: Ancona · 125 m
31 minutes from Ancona. A clifftop borgo at 125 meters, above the Due Sorelle sea stacks of the Adriatic.
Senigallia
Province: Ancona · 5 m
41 minutes from Ancona. Thirteen kilometers of fine sand on the Adriatic, hometown to a chef and a photographer whose names carry beyond the region.
Morro d'Alba
Province: Ancona · 199 m
42 minutes from Ancona. A walled Castello di Jesi at 199 meters above the Esino valley, ringed by a covered walkway found nowhere else in Italy.
Staffolo
Province: Ancona · 442 m
42 minutes from Ancona. The Verdicchio balcony at 442 meters above three valleys, with a near-circular medieval wall ring and a wine museum carved into the ramparts.
Recanati
Province: Macerata · 296 m
43 minutes from Ancona. The hill town at 296 meters overlooking the Musone valley toward the Adriatic.
Mondolfo
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 144 m
44 minutes from Ancona. A walled hill borgo at 144 meters above the Adriatic, with the frazione of Marotta and its beach below.
Montecassiano
Province: Macerata · 188 m
44 minutes from Ancona. A walled hill borgo north of Macerata, built around a terracotta altarpiece too large to move.
Montecosaro
Province: Macerata · 267 m
46 minutes from Ancona. A walled hilltop borgo at 267 meters above the Chienti valley, with a Romanesque basilica rebuilt in 1125 on the river plain below.
Montelupone
Province: Macerata · 272 m
47 minutes from Ancona. A walled hill borgo at 272 meters above the lower Potenza valley, with a fourteenth-century civic loggia and a 1889 horseshoe theatre.
Porto San Giorgio
Province: Fermo · 5 m
48 minutes from Ancona. A 15,000-resident beach town on the Adriatic between Ancona and Pescara, with one of the largest tourist marinas in the central Adriatic, the medieval Rocca Tiepolo above the harbour, and a long fine-sand seafront under date palms.
Serra San Quirico
Province: Ancona · 409 m
49 minutes from Ancona. A stone borgo on Monte Murano at the entrance to the Gola della Rossa, ringed by 1300 walls with covered passageways called copertelle.
Morrovalle
Province: Macerata · 247 m
50 minutes from Ancona. A hilltop borgo at 247 meters above the Chienti valley, its walled centro storico grown from a medieval castle called Mor-ro.
Cingoli
Province: Macerata · 631 m
52 minutes from Ancona. The Balcone delle Marche at 631 meters, a hilltop borgo where on clear days the view runs from the Sibillini to the Croatian coast.
Corinaldo
Province: Ancona · 203 m
56 minutes from Ancona. A walled hill borgo at 203 meters, ringed by 912 meters of intact medieval walls, and the birthplace of Saint Maria Goretti.
Macerata
Province: Macerata · 315 m
58 minutes from Ancona. The provincial capital at 315 meters between the Chienti and Potenza, home to Italy's oldest university and the Sferisterio open-air opera arena.
Treia
Province: Macerata · 342 m
58 minutes from Ancona. A Macerata hill town at 342 meters, the Roman municipium Trea, renamed by Pope Pius VI in 1790 after centuries as Montecchio.
Moresco
Province: Fermo · 405 m
59 minutes from Ancona. A 516-person hill borgo at 405 meters above the Aso valley, with a 25-meter seven-sided tower unique in Europe.
Fermo
Province: Fermo · 319 m
60 minutes from Ancona. The provincial capital on the Sabulo hill at 319 meters, with 2,200 square meters of Augustan Roman cisterns running under the centro storico.
Mondavio
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 280 m
61 minutes from Ancona. A hill borgo at 280 meters whose fortress never took a cannon shot.
Genga
Province: Ancona · 322 m
62 minutes from Ancona. A small Sentino-valley commune at 322 meters whose territory holds the Frasassi caves, the largest karst show cave in Italy.
Grottammare
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 4 m
63 minutes from Ancona. A double town on the Riviera delle Palme, with a palm-lined seafront and a medieval upper borgo where Pope Sixtus V was born.
Montefiore dell'Aso
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 412 m
64 minutes from Ancona. A hilltop borgo at 412 meters between the Aso and Menocchia valleys, holding six surviving panels of Carlo Crivelli's 1472 polyptych.
Fabriano
Province: Ancona · 325 m
65 minutes from Ancona. The Italian paper town at 325 meters, making fine watermarked sheets since 1264.
Magliano di Tenna
Province: Fermo · 281 m
66 minutes from Ancona. A small Fermo-province borgo at 281 meters above the Tenna river, ringed by fourteenth-century walls with two of its six original towers still standing.
Petritoli
Province: Fermo · 358 m
67 minutes from Ancona. A hilltop borgo at 358 meters above the Aso valley, formed around the year 1000 from the merger of three castles.
Arcevia
Province: Ancona · 535 m
69 minutes from Ancona. A hilltop borgo at 535 meters above the Misa and Nevola valleys, defended in the Middle Ages by a ring of nine satellite castles.
Gabicce Mare
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 8 m
71 minutes from Ancona. The northernmost Marche seaside on the Adriatic, where the coast meets the cliffs of the Parco del San Bartolo at the Romagna border.
Matelica
Province: Macerata · 354 m
71 minutes from Ancona. A Verdicchio town at 354 meters in the upper Esino valley, with a Roman marble globe in its archaeological museum.
Pesaro
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 11 m
71 minutes from Ancona. The Adriatic port at the mouth of the Foglia, founded as Roman Pisaurum in 184 BC and given to the world by Rossini in 1792.
San Severino Marche
Province: Macerata · 235 m
71 minutes from Ancona. A two-level town where a 224-meter elliptical piazza in the lower city looks up at a fortified hill crowned by a medieval tower and Salimbeni-painted churches.
Monteprandone
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 266 m
74 minutes from Ancona. A hilltop borgo at 266 meters above the lower Tronto valley, its walled center climbing toward a summit church with a view to the Adriatic.
Ripatransone
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 494 m
74 minutes from Ancona. The Belvedere del Piceno at 494 meters, ridgetop borgo with views to the Adriatic and the narrowest alley in Italy at 43 centimeters.
Acquaviva Picena
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 359 m
75 minutes from Ancona. A walled hill borgo at 359 meters, six kilometers from the Adriatic, anchored by a cylindrical fortress keep and the surviving pajarola craft.
Gradara
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 142 m
75 minutes from Ancona. The walled hill borgo at 142 meters above the Adriatic where Dante set the deaths of Paolo and Francesca, with one of Italy's best-preserved castles.
Pergola
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 265 m
75 minutes from Ancona. A hill town at 265 meters in the upper Cesano valley, holding the only surviving group of Roman gilded bronze statues from antiquity.
Esanatoglia
Province: Macerata · 358 m
76 minutes from Ancona. A medieval village of seven bell towers at 358 meters on the Marche-Umbria border, sitting at the source of the Esino river.
Sassoferrato
Province: Ancona · 386 m
76 minutes from Ancona. A two-level Apennine town above Roman Sentinum, where the consuls Decius Mus and Fabius Maximus defeated four allied tribes in 295 BC.
Vallefoglia
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 295 m
76 minutes from Ancona. A 2014 merger commune at 295 meters in the Foglia valley, born from Colbordolo, birthplace of Raffaello's father, and Sant'Angelo in Lizzola.
Monte Rinaldo
Province: Fermo · 478 m
77 minutes from Ancona. A 317-resident village on a 478-meter ridge of the Aso valley in the Marche interior, anchored by a 1st-century BC Roman sanctuary, the largest pre-imperial sanctuary excavated in the central Adriatic.
San Ginesio
Province: Macerata · 680 m
77 minutes from Ancona. The Balcony of the Sibillini at 680 meters, where a 1295 pilgrim hospital and the only flowery gothic collegiate church in the Marche stand within the same walls.
Offida
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 293 m
79 minutes from Ancona. A hill borgo at 293 meters in the Piceno wine country, with a Romanesque-Gothic cliff church and women still working bobbin lace.
Servigliano
Province: Fermo · 215 m
80 minutes from Ancona. An eighteenth-century ideal city at 215 meters in the Tenna valley, rebuilt by papal commission on a 137-by-144-meter quadrangle after the old hill village collapsed.
Fossombrone
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 116 m
81 minutes from Ancona. An inland Marchigiano town on the Metauro river, layered over a Roman colony with a Renaissance ducal court rising above it.
Sarnano
Province: Macerata · 539 m
84 minutes from Ancona. A 539-meter medieval borgo of baked brick at the foot of the Sibillini, with thermal springs that ran for 84 years until the 2016 earthquake.
Camerino
Province: Macerata · 661 m
85 minutes from Ancona. A university city at 661 meters on the ridge between the Chienti and Potenza, rebuilding after 2016.
Ascoli Piceno
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 154 m
87 minutes from Ancona. The travertine city at 154 meters where the Tronto meets the Castellano, capital of the Piceni and host of the Quintana joust.

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