What to see · Fano

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Fano: 3 places to start with

1. 1 Churches Chiesa di San Pietro in Valle Baroque Oratorian church in Fano: unfinished façade, white-and-gold interior, dome of 1696.
2. 2 Churches Chiesa di Sant'Agostino Augustinian church in Fano destroyed by bombing, with a Renaissance cloister and frescoed lunettes.
3. 3 Churches Chiesa di Santa Maria del Gonfalone Former seventeenth-century church of the Gonfalone, with a coffered wooden ceiling of 1606, later a theatre.

6 places covered in Fano Grouped by type, most important first.

Churches and places of worship

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Chiesa di San Pietro in Valle ★

Baroque Oratorian church in Fano: unfinished façade, white-and-gold interior, dome of 1696.

Chiesa di Sant'Agostino ★

Augustinian church in Fano destroyed by bombing, with a Renaissance cloister and frescoed lunettes.

Chiesa di Santa Maria del Gonfalone ★

Former seventeenth-century church of the Gonfalone, with a coffered wooden ceiling of 1606, later a theatre.

Chiesa di Santa Maria Nuova

Franciscan church in Fano with Perugino's Pala di Fano of 1497 and a Renaissance portal of 1498.

Castles, palaces and villas

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Porta della Mandria

Roman gate in Fano's walls, in yellow sandstone opus quadratum, on the road to Pesaro.

Museums, theatres and collections

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Teatro della Fortuna

Fano's opera house, born in the 1299 Palazzo del Podestà, with the Sala Poletti; opera, drama and dance.