Marche: Insider guides (Ultimi inserimenti)

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Earth, Water, Fire and Soul. These are the elements of the master potters of Appignano handing down this tradition for more than 500 years. Approach the world of ceramics by visiting the workshops of master potters and their works.

This cozy restaurant just 50 meters away from the Castle, is a happy meeting place for lovers of simple and true flavors of the best culinary tradition of the Marche: homemade pasta, piadina, local meet, typical desserts.

An amazing first hand experience of joining the truffle hunter and his dog as they weave their way through the woods in search of truffles. Followed by a hands-on cooking class using your newly found truffles as the main ingredient.

One of most beautiful coastal areas of the Marche Region; the Sirolo beach with its characteristic "resounding rocks" and the "two sisters", reef rocks in front of the Conero promontory. About one hour driving from the Castle.

Legumes of Appignano are the bean Solfì and chickpea Oak, pulses originating in the territory appignanese, recovered, maintained in the purity and grown by local farmers.A path to enhance the excellence of the typical products of Marches.

Learn to establish a contact with the soil and yourself in the green area that surrounds Villa Cicchi: it's yoga time with us!

One hour by car from the Castle. Artistic and University centre, birthplace of Bramante and Raphael. Visit the Montefeltro family's Palazzo Ducale, the Marche National Gallery, Raphael's house, the "Raphael College" where G. Pascoli studied

Poltrona Frau is a historic brand in the production of furniture. Famous for its sofas and armchairs, Poltrona Frau is popular also for beds, tables and chairs and lighting.

The environment is particularly impressive, with the outline of the mountains around the body of water that is reflected in the lake in many colors.

Explore the medieval villages in Marche, from Montelupone to Morrovalle, passing by the Abbey of Fiastra, the Basilica of Santa Maria a Piè in Chienti and the Sanctuary of Loreto

Arena Sferisterio,a huge neoclassical arena erected in the 1820s today is a unique theatrical architecture.According to the most famous opera singers and the outdoor theater with the best acoustics in Italy.50°Season from 18/7 to 10/8 2014.

A one week guided walking tour designed to showcase the best of this undiscovered part of Italy. You will meet like-minded people and, each day, be guided through a different part of the glorious Sibillini Mountains and its surrounding

What better way to pass a morning or afternoon than to spend it learning to cook traditional Italian dishes. Using local, fresh Marchigiani ingredients, you will learn the basics of making and shaping pasta, rolling out your own gnocchi a

Fish cuisine in the port of Civitanova Marche

If you tasted our cuisine, join Villa Chicci's hands-on regional cooking course!

Follow the cyclepaths along the seafront and the banks of the river Chienti, pedaling past the old fishermen's cottages and up into the higher part of the town. Feeling fit? Cycle all the way along the coast of Marche!

September and October the villa's Salone delle Tempere hosts concerts linked to the Ascoli Piceno Festival, becoming the temple of music!

Originally from century XIII is remembered for evidence of the presence of San Francesco date, by tradition, an ancient oak door inserted in the front of the church, and from which the saint made his entrance.

At La Greppia of Montemaggiore to Metauro: cuisine of the Marche, rich in taste, baking in a wood oven, pizza, pastry baked on stone piada cold cuts coming from the farm's family.

Typical cuisine of Marche, prepared with home grown and locally sourced ingredients

A Montecosaro is this refined local, well regarded by the press as essential as meticulous in the furnishings in the gastronomic research, between history and creation, with a cellar tr giudicat the most interesting in Italy.

The Sanctuary of Loreto, the little medieval hill towns, the ancient romanesque abbeys, the gently rolling countryside, and the spectacular Parco dei Sibillini

Experience an unforgettable week-long course in the art of ceramics: discover and handle all the secrets of the mold!

As every year during the first week of August, the town of Senigallia is transformed and becomes the stage of the Summer Jamboree, an International Festival focused on the culture and music of the forties and fifties.

The velvet Adriatic beach, famous for tourist facilities and cultural events. 15 minutes by car from the Castle. Visit the Palazzetto Baviera, the recently restored Rocca Roveresca, the Duca palace, the Croce church, the Ercolani porticoes.

Turn your vacation into a photographic safari in Marche, hunting out the perfect shot thanks the technics learnt during the course held at Villa Cicchi!

The donkey is a perfect partner to know our territory and to tell us of forgotten trades, the donkey invites us curious to play with simplicity, the donkey, in short, teaches us through the proverbial slowness.

If you like music, you'll love Macerata's summer opera festival, staged in the Sferisterio arena!

Pitino, with its church and its tower, dating back to 600 BC one of the most important places of the central Italic, if not the only, then federated with Rome. In a dominant position offers an incredibly beautiful landscape.