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The town Ancona is finely situated on and between the slopes of the two extremities of the promontory of Monte Conero, Monte Astagno. Ancona is the capital of the Italian region called Marche. It is an important port city on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Severely damaged by war and earthquakes, workaday ANCONA has few historical monuments embedded in its tangle of commercial buildings. A city of central Italy on the Adriatic Sea. It is a leading port and an industrial and commercial center. Population: 101,000. Ancona is a city on Italy’s Adriatic coast and the capital of the Marche region. It’s known for beaches, such as Passetto Beach, and the hilltop Cathedral of San Ciriaco. In the city center, the Fontana del Calamo is a fountain with bronze masks of mythic figures. In the port are the ancient Arch of Trajan and the Lazzaretto, or Mole Vanvitelliana, an 18th-century pentagonal quarantine station on its own island.