How to Get Around Ascoli Piceno

Ascoli is flat, compact and easy, which is a relief after most Italian hill cities.

The old city sits on level ground between the rivers and is crossed on foot in twenty minutes; the centre is largely pedestrian.

Parking is in paid car parks around the walls, with free areas a little further out, and escalators and lifts link some of them to the centre.

The station is about a kilometre from Piazza del Popolo, on a branch line rather than a main one.

Local buses serve the modern districts and the villages of the Tronto valley.

A car is needed for the Sibillini, the Laga and the Piceno hill villages; nothing else requires one.

Roads up both mountain ranges are narrow and winding, and several remain affected by the 2016 earthquakes.

How easily, and at what cost, can you combine the region’s main destinations?

Cost compares the options for each route rather than quoting a fare: inexpensive means the price is not a factor in planning, moderate cost means a real line in the budget, and the expensive option is one worth weighing against the alternative. Fares change from year to year; the ranking between them does not.