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 Car Hire & Driving in Ancona, ItalyWelcome to Ancona Car Hire, Italy; available at Ancona Airport.Le Marche region Central Italy Car HireTucked away in a remote corner between the Adriatic Sea and the Apennine mountains, Le Marche (the Marches) is an enchanting rural patchwork of old towns, hill country and long sandy beaches all to be explored in your hire car. In pre-Christian times Le Marche was settled by the Piceni, a tribe eventually assimilated by the Romans. Ancona Car HireAncona has a population of about 98,000 and is the capital of the Le Marche region. Ancona is also Le Marche’s larges port, with ferries to Greece and Croatia. Ancona dates back to at least the 5th century BC, when it was settled by Greek exiles from Siracusa. Ancona takes its name from ankon, the Greek for elbow, a reference to the rocky spur that juts into the sea to form Ancona’s fine natural harbour which you can explore in your hire car. Ancona was bombed heavily during World War II which destroyed much of the medieval town. The 15th century Loggia dei Mercanti (merchants’ exchange) which you will find on Via della Loggia in your hire car in Ancona, survives as a monument to the town’s medieval heyday. Just north of the loggia in your hire car is the Romanesque church of Santa Maria della Piazza with a lovely façade which you can see from your hire car. You can also visit the nearby Pinacoteca Comunale F Podesti e Galleria d’Arte Moderna in your hire car, which includes canvases by Titian and Lorenzo Lotto. Another place you can visit in your hire car while in Ancona is the Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche where there are displays of Greek, Gallic and Roman art. The Arco di Traiano, which you will find by the harbour in Ancona in your hire car, was erected in AD 115 and is one of Italy’s better preserved Roman arches. Italy Car HireHome of opera, Ferrari and designers like Giorgio Armani, Prada and Gucci; Italy is a place of diversity and culture, all free to be explored in your hire car. From the snow capped peaks of the Alpes in the north, through to the unique and magical city of Venice in the northeast of Italy, whose streets are full of water, the central Tuscany region of Italy, full of evocative landscapes; peaceful and timeless, and the main wine making region of Italy; Florence, its capital, is a great art centre. Italy’s capital Rome is home of one of the greatest amphitheatres, the Colosseum, which was commissioned in AD 72, you will also find the Vatican City here in your hire car, the world capital of Catholicism and the world’s smallest state, occupying just 43ha (106 acres). The south of Italy is rich in archaeological remains, such as the famous Pompeii. Italy also includes the beautiful islands of Sicily and Sardinia, equally worth a visit in your hire car. See our links to Venice Car Hire, Florence Car Hire, Rome Car Hire, Naples Car Hire, together with Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia for Sardinia Car Hire and Catania and Palermo for Sicily Car Hire, for details of what you may see on a trip to these places in your hire car while exploring Italy.
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