It is located 319 m alt. on a hill between the valleys of the rivers and Tenna Ete Vivo, a few kilometers from the Adriatic (Porto San Giorgio).

Agricultural and commercial centre (cereals, grapes, olives, fruits, vegetables, forage, livestock, beekeeping) along with food, textile (cotton), engineering, footwear industries.

Dominated by the Romanesque-Gothic Cathedral (1227, rebuilt in the eighteenth century.) and the magnificent panorama of the square Girfalco (or Pool), the city preserves ruins of the Roman theater, a large pool of epuratoria I sec. AD, and several churches: St. Zeno, Roman (XIIsec.), St. Francis and St. Dominic, the thirteenth century., St. Augustine (XIII-XIV), with the adjacent chapel of Santa Monica, Santa Maria del Carmine and St. Philip, Baroque.

Also notable: the Matteucci tower (XIV cent.), the Renaissance Municipal palace, with the monumental statue of Pope Sixtus V, Accursio Baldi (1590), the palace of Studies (City Library), Baroque, and adjacent to the gallery San Rocco (1528), the Apostolic Palace, former residence of the papal governors of the sixteenth century. (Museum); Azzolino palace (dating to the sixteenth century). Artistic and cultural centre, als boasts school education institutions.

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