Marche: Insider guides (Ultimi inserimenti)

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!

The Le Marche region is ideal for touring around the beautiful countryside in a vintage fiat 500. It's known for its diversity of landscape. Around every corner you'll find a picture postcard view, fields of sunflowers, hill top towns...

Typical specialties of Marche, in a rustic chic restaurant

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

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

Instead of visiting just one vineyard join us for an original wine tasting experience where we have hand selected six wines from around the region and each has been paired with a small taster dish to complement the wine.

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

In the 60s cook the fresh fish that fished grandfather Dario was the most immediate and natural, but over the years focus on the freshness of the fish product and the raw materials used, has become their strength.

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.

"Il Gergo"is a brand of footwear and leather product, known for its classic English-style models. Morrovalle The workshop also provided a line is entirely hand made of the highest quality.

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.

Trekking in the Sibillini Park one day, sailing along the coast to see the Due Sorelle beach and the caves of Frasassi the next...

Famous Moreno Cedroni's Restaurant (he is the 2 Michelin stars and 3 Forks Gambero Rosso chef) just 22 km from the Castle that has brought an avant-gardist spirit to the Italian cuisine focused mostly on fish.

Important Adriatic port. Visit San Ciriaco, the Anziani Palace, National Museum of the Marche, the Passetto, the "Fountain of 13 Spouts", Trajan's Arch, the Vanvitelli jetty. About 45 minutes driving from the Castle

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

In a magical place, between the beautiful hills of the Marche, to welcome a beautiful cottage, trocverete outside the scents of the open country, within the warmth of other times and beautiful sunsets will envelop you.

A restaurant in the old cloisters of a Capuchin convent

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.

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

The restaurant is a converted country house, very characteristic is the destination for all gourmets who want to indulge in the local food, in summer you can eat outdoors, enjoying the cool of the wonderful pergola.

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.

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.

Traditional food, homemade pasta, olive oil of their own production, situated in the green hills of the Marche countryside.

Fish cuisine in the port of Civitanova Marche

Traditional maritime cuisine in the port of Civitanova

Guests of all ages will love Civitanova's Sailing Club, the beaches dotted along the Adriatic coast, and the crystal clear water of Monte Conero.

A place dedicated to peace, meditation, contemplation and meditative art and where you can pacify the mind and body and balance the energies in an atmosphere of wabi -natural- and sabi -transient beauty.

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.

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.

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