Palazzo della SignoriaView of the 14th century wallsCathedral (Duomo)Palazzo Balleani
It is an important industrial and artistic center in the floodplain on the left (north) bank of theEsino river, 17 kilometres (11 mi) before its mouth on theAdriatic Sea.
Jesi (Iesi) was one of the last towns of theUmbri when, in the 4th century BC, theSenones Gauls invaded the area and ousted them. They turned it into a stronghold against thePiceni. In 283 BC the Senones were defeated by the Romans. Jesi in 247 BC became acolonia civium romanorum with the name ofAesis.
Jesi cathedral [it]:duomo built in the 13th-15th centuries. The façade and the Latin cross interior are modern.
San Floriano: 18th century convent.
San Marco:Gothic, 13th-century church just outside the old city centre. The interior has a nave and two aisles, with a 14th-century fresco by an anonymous Rimini painter.
Santa Maria delle Grazie: 15th-century church with 17th-century belltower.
San Nicolò: 13th-century church with Romanesque apse and a Gothic portal.
The 14th century walls, built following the line of the Roman ones and mostly rebuilt in the 15th century byBaccio Pontelli andFrancesco di Giorgio Martini. Six towers remain today.
Palazzo della Signoria, built in 1486–1498 byFrancesco di Giorgio Martini. The angular tower was elevated in 1661 and received a dome, but crumbled down a few years later. Notable is the interior courtyard, with two orders of loggias, partially designed byAndrea Sansovino from 1519.
Palazzo Balleani, an example of localBaroque architecture, built from 1720 and designed by Francesco Ferruzzi. The façade has a characteristic balcony supported by fouratlases (1723). The interior has precious gilded stucco decoration.
Palazzo Pianetti:Rococo palace. The wide façade has exactly one hundred windows, while the interior has a noteworthygiardino all'italiana. The palace houses the city's civic art gallery, with a series of paintings by the Venetian artistLorenzo Lotto.
Palazzo Ricci, finished in 1547. The diamond-like bricks of the façade are inspired to famousPalazzo dei Diamanti inFerrara.
