Urbino – a world heritage site and UNESCO town.  Urbino was the model renaissance city during the Italian Renaissance. , Urbino wrote the book on courtly behaviour during the 16th century. Ruled by Federico da Montefeltro, who brought Europe’s greatest architects and artists to build his model city. Today it’s an elegant, relaxed and very [...]

This thriving and elegant centre is one of the most beguiling towns in this stretch of the Marche and boasts a sophisticated old centre and lively cultural life that should not be [...]

The beguiling town of Ascoli Piceno is the southern Marche’s major centre and, as its tourist brochure says, it is a place you can see in a day yet never forget. Along with its breathtaking main square, it has other outstanding sights that manage to leave their mark on even the most blasé of tourists. [...]

Serra de’Conti is a typical hilltop village in the central Le Marche province of Ancona. It is said to be one of the most beautiful of the larger hilltop villages in the whole of Le Marche and has mediaeval fortified walls with ten towers surrounding the centro storico or historic centre. Serra also has the famous [...]

Montalto delle Marche is a large village in southern Le Marche and famous for being the home of the future Pope Sisto V, who was elected Pope in 1585 and who made Montalto a papal state for a short while before the formation of the state of Italy brought that to an end.The village is [...]

Macerata is the provincial capital and is a large town in central Le Marche, with the mediaeval part located on a hill overlooking the rivers Chienti and Potenza. There is a larger modern area to Macerata on the lower plain and in total the town has a population of over 40,000 inhabitants.
The town has a [...]

Fermo is a historic and beautiful town located in southern Le Marche, previously in the province of Ascoli Piceno, but in 2009 it will be in its own province of Fermano. The city is 319 metres above sea level and is only 2km from the Adriatic coast and its old port of Porto san Giorgio.
The [...]

Corinaldo is a beautifully preserved Medieval town in the Ancona Province of Le Marche. It is just inland from the Adriatic seaside resorts of Senigallia and Marotta to the east and the surrounding countryside is covered in olive trees and the famous Verdicchio vineyards.
It features the best preserved town or village walls in the whole [...]

Carassai is a hilltop village of 1,300 inhabitants, near the Adriatic coast in the Ascoli Piceno province of southern Le Marche. It is now undergoing a period of rebuilding after many years of slow decline in its fortunes, and the historic centre is being slowly and painstakingly restored to its former glory.
There are two ancient [...]

Being just a couple of kilometres from the Adriatic means that Campofilone has always been popular with Italian tourists as shown by the array of luxury villas and apartments in the area outside the walls of the old medieval village.
Campofilone today is a beautiful and popular village and the main gate in the medieval walls [...]