Borghi, arte e storia minore
Si occupa di borghi, centri storici, chiese e siti archeologici: paesi sotto i mille abitanti e architetture fuori dalle guide turistiche ufficiali.
326 inhabitants, a belvedere over the Aso Valley and the Sibillini Mountains: Smerillo is one of the smallest and most beautiful villages in the Marche. Almost nobody knows it.
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Amandola is the main town of the upper Tenna Valley: an ideal base for the Sibillini Mountains, a medieval town under reconstruction, and extraordinary mountain cuisine.
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Apecchio is a small Apennine village in the Pesaro hinterland known for prized white truffle and a unique craft brewing tradition in the Marche.
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Montemonaco is the closest village to Monte Sibilla, the mountain of the legendary sorceress. Cobbled streets, post-earthquake silence, and a boundless panorama.
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Frontone Castle is one of the most spectacular fortresses in the Marche Apennines: below, a silent village and a trattoria worth the drive over the hills.
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Saluzzo boasts an intact medieval old town, fifteenth-century palaces and a view of the Alps that no brochure has yet managed to spoil.
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A 12th-century Cistercian abbey set amid the Piedmont rice fields, Staffarda is one of Italy's best-preserved monastic complexes — and rarely visited.
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In 1223 Francis of Assisi invented the living nativity scene here. Every December the cliff-side sanctuary of Greccio does it again, in the exact spot where it first happened.
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In the Majella mountains near L'Aquila, Pescocostanzo hides Baroque palaces and centuries of lace-making under snow-covered beech woods in winter.
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