Church of San Nicolò

It is one of the oldest buildings in Jesi.
The oldest part is the apse, which dates back to the end of the 12th century, while the rest of the church is in the Gothic style and dates from the beginning of the 14th century.
For at least a century, the church was a knights Templar Commanderie where the pilgrims headed to Rome or Ancona would lodge. The presence of the Templars is testified by two crosses sculpted at the jamb of the entrance door and by the six-pointed star – the emblem of the Virgin Mary – engraved on the wall of the left-side aisle.
The façade is topped by two sloping roofs and decorated with a Lombard band. The interior has three naves with apses and mainly features cross vaults supported by composite columns; instead, the side aisles are Romanesque in style. The few existing frescoes, presumably datable between 1000 and 1200 AD, are all that remains of the old interior decorations side altars mainly dating from the Baroque period.