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Extract from the Tolentino Travel Guides:
Around 20km southwest of Macerata,
TOLENTINO
doesn't look much at first sight, girded as it is by ugly modern suburbs. But it improves markedly after you've crossed its turreted thirteenth-century bridge, a short way beyond which stands the
Basilica di San Nicola
(daily 7.30am-12.30pm & 3.30-7pm; free), the main reason for visiting the town. Its west front is a real feast for the eyes - a curly Baroque facade with a grinning sun instead of a rose window and a fancily twisting Gothic portal topped by an oriental-style arch enclosing a dragon-slaying saint. Inside, the most intriguing feature is the
Cappe...
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