Ascoli Piceno

/ ˈaskoli piˈtʃɛːno /

noun

1. a town in E central Italy, in the Marches: capital of the Roman province of Picenum; site of the massacre of all its Roman citizens in the Social War in 90 bc Pop: 51 375 (2001) Latin nameAsculum Picenumˈæskjʊləm paɪˈsiːnəm

Example Sentences

I’d also like someday to visit Ascoli Piceno, the town in east-central Italy where Santino lives with his partner and infant son.

From Washington Post

“Where are the communists?” he asked at a recent rally in Ascoli Piceno, a town in the central Italian region of Marche, a stronghold of the left since the end of the second world war.

From The Guardian

On a summer evening six years ago, the Italian tennis player Stefano Travaglia walked from his family’s sixth-floor apartment in the town of Ascoli Piceno near the Adriatic coast to the floor below.

From New York Times

Domenico Guidotti, 60, who had driven five hours to sell his meat-stuffed olives from Ascoli Piceno, in Le Marche, came over to commiserate.

From New York Times

When Gaia Paolini, 18, comes home from her school in Ascoli Piceno she spends time with her childhood friends curating the blog.

From BBC