Macerata

Description

Macerata is a city and comune in central Italy, the county town of the province of Macerata in the Marche region. The historical city center is located on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza rivers. It consisted of the Picenes city named Ricina, then, after the romanization, Recina and Helvia Recina. After the destruction of Helvia Recina by the barbarians, the inhabitants took shelter upon the hills, and eventually began to rebuild the city, first on the top of the hills then they descended again and expanded. In the central Piazza della Libertà is the Loggia dei Mercanti with two-tier arcades dating from the Renaissance.