Marche: Insider guides (Ultimi inserimenti)

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

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

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.

From the hills leading down to the sea of Senigallia, the warm, evocative and at the same time familiar SpaMarine is waiting to welcome you into its Zen space with its classic, pleasant and comfortable taste.

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

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.

The Roman "Fanum Fortunae", today a seaside city near the mouth of the Metauro river. Visit the Palazzo della Ragione, the Pinacoteca art gallery, the Arch of Augustus and the Loggias of San Michele. 20 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!

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

An amazing three day expedition on the mountains of Piceno: climbing, trekking and much more activities to share together!

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.

Let youngsters discover the life in the farm through a tour of Villa Cicchi's orchards and vegetable gardens. Children will love it!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Orciani bags in Fano, Piero Guidi in Urbino, Dirk Bikkemberg in Fano, Freeport in Pesaro, Tod's and Hogan in Civitanova, Simonetta and Fendi kids in Jesi

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

Spend a different day in Marche Region! Visit our wine cellar and organize a great wine tasting! We daily open our doors to everyone: wine lovers, school trips, tourists from Italy and abroad or people who simply love wine and its world!

Urbino, Fano, Pesaro, Gradara, Conero, Urbania, Fabriano, Corinaldo, Grotte di Frasassi, Loreto, Ancona, ecc...

Every year the Sferisterio of Macerata houses several operas of great attraction in July and August in an atmosphere of deep elegance.

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.

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.

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

Numerous altarpieces in the Marche region of Della Robbia glazed terracotta, one of Fra Mattia's production is the Coronation of Virgin dated back to 1527-1530, located in the collegiate church of S. Maria Assunta in Montecassiano.

Typical specialties of Marche, in a rustic chic restaurant