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Tolentino, whose historic center is still delimited for long stretches by the thirteenth-century walls, preserves works of art and monuments of considerable value. One of the best known and most popular cities of art in the Marches, in a strategic position in the Chienti valley, it was a Roman municipium and was previously a Piceno center, as the numerous necropolises found in the area tell us.
The Basilica of San Nicola, whose façade is covered in travertine, is of great artistic interest; in particular the portal, the work of the Florentine sculptor Nanni di Bartolo known as il Rosso, in which elements of flowery Gothic are admirably blended with spatial effects typical of the early Renaissance. The Augustinian cloister dates back to the first half of the 14th century: it represents the oldest example of a cloister of the mendicant orders in Italy. The place of greatest artistic interest in the Tolentino complex is the "Cappellone di San Nicola": the room is renowned above all for its pictorial decoration, one of the largest and best preserved from the early fourteenth century, a work led by the painter Pietro from Rimini. The fresco decoration occupies the entire large hall.
Source: https://www.turismo.marche.it/it-it/Cosa-vedere/Localita/Tolentino/5704