Le Marche, a region from the Apennines to the Adriatic Sea, offer such a variety of landscapes that are a wonderful and unexpected discovery for the traveler who wants to leave the usual routes to immerse themselves in different reality incessantly.

The inn, close to hills and sea, offers countless opportunities for walking on foot, by bicycle, on horseback in the woods relaxing inland, beyond the long-time silent streets white campaign.

In winter the sea of white fog is mixed with sand and the sky in a magical opalescent atmosphere, the thunder of waves accompanies long walks colored lenses of cold days and serene.

The heat of a sunny summer is breath in interminable walks in a sea of fresh water gently and crystalline, in a golden sand and impalpable.

We are happy to suggest some ideas for discovering the Marche through its:

Provincial capital
Pesaro-Urbino
Ancona
Macerata
Fermo
Ascoli Piceno

.... MORE VILLAGES 'BELLI OF ITALY IN MARCHE
Corinaldo
Esanatoglia
Gradara
San Ginesio
Treia
Montelupone
Visso
Gradara
Montefabbri
Montefiore dell'Aso
Moresco

... THE CITY FOR ART
Urbino - UNESCO World Heritage
Loreto - The most important Marian shrine in the world
Recanati - The city of poetry
Macerata - The Athens delle Marche
Camerino - The prestigious University
Fermo - Capital of Brand Fermana
Offida - The city of Lace
Ascoli Piceno - the Pearl of Piceno

LE MARCHE AND THE TREASURES OF NATURE
Mount Conero and its riviera
The mountains Sibillini
The throat of Furlo
The caves Frasassi
The Reserve naturally Abbadia of Fiastra

SECRETS OF LE MARCHE
The Caves of Osimo, a fascinating journey underground imbued with mystery.
Historic homes and gardens, a wonderful location in places of delight aristocrats Marche
The magic of Portonovo bay and the abbey of St. Maria Portonovo of the most beautiful bay of Marche coast between myths and legends
Matelica and his world: a mysterious sphere, the splendor of ancient Roman Matile "and a splendid archaeological museum where the past meets the present.
Ripatransone alley and the closer of Italy: streets and alleys that interlace e climbing on the hill, but only one is the closest ever ... .... Tourists is to find!
Servigliano and its magical geometries: The ideal sixteenth of the city comes alive in the perfect symmetry of the town planning eighteenth.
Macerata and esoteric secrets of Villa Lauri: an interesting path in silence initiation of a park in the shadow of secular trees.
Tolentino, the city of smile: travel can be fun in the museum's Caricature of Tolentino.
The throat of Furlo and Mussolini: it is precisely in the small hamlet of Furlo that you can still read a piece of history carved in the memory, photos, objects and furnishings in the dining room of Mussolini whose profile carved into the rock, dominates the throat.
Urbania and the church of the dead: the mummies of Urbania is, for visitors, one of the most curious and original in the region.

Le Marche have known over time the passage of peoples and cultures. Linked to alternate destinies of rulers, driven by struggles between church and empire, fragmented control of powerful families have participated in all the important moments of history, retaining the tracks.
The first evidence of a prehistoric date from the Paleolithic lower as "tonsils" to surface in the area of Conero us back to prehistoric times.
Still rich and fascinating mysteries of the events of Piceni who lived from the age of iron a large area of the region going in Abruzzo.
The many necropolis testimony of a people whose rites of burial were similar to those of Venetian and Balkan nations.
Their unit was solid flaked by two events early in the fourth century: the invasion of Senoni Galli (who founded Sena Gallica) north of 'el Esino' arrival of the Sabines, an Italian tribe in the south.
Simultaneously the Siracusans based colony of Ancona will become an important commercial emporium. I Piceni, warrior people open to trade, industrious and clever in metalworking, confound it is merging with the new reality of future Marche.
The explosive rise of Rome travolse the destinies of Galli Senoni who were defeated in a battle at Sentinum, the current Sassoferrato.
The inhabitants of these areas, after several ups and was given the Roman citizenship, while the rest of the territory was confiscated and turned into "ager publicus."
Ascoli remained independent and only became "civitas foedereata"; Pisaurum, firmum are pieces of a magnificent presence that influenced 'the urbanitsica of many cities, some are sovrapposero sprang to other new and flourishing even favored by a road that lies in Marche two beautiful testimonies, the Flamina and Salaria, ambitious and farsighted works: ambitious for the choices of high "engineering", made bridges, supports imposing, tunnels dug into the rock to chisel coups, such as tunnels to a stolen Furlo activity difficult for the media by then addomestciare the farsighted intelligence of men who had sensed the importance civil, economic, strategic works that are modern in their complex and heterogeneous value.

Medieval and Renaissance

The spread of Christianity, the sunset of the Roman Empire, the invasions of Germanic peoples, expansion of the government of Byzantium, the request for help from the Pope to Franks that ended with the donation dell'Esarcato and Pentapolis from Carlo Magno the Pope himself are events that profoundly marked the Marches from a historical, social, artistic.
The Monachesimo, creator of splendid churches, had a widespread dissemination so that the monasteries were built as centers of culture, working in the area for reclamation works, improvements in agriculture and for the holding of livestock.
The name of Brand appeared with the dynasty of Brass called so that the border areas of 'Empire, but the continuing discord between the two powers of the time drove one and the other to seek the support of the nascent municipalities, a dell'Esino south, while remaining anchored to 'apostolic authority, enjoyed a degree of autonomy.
North grew the strength of powerful Signorie: the Malatesta who drove up in Ancona, and retreating, preserved Pesaro while Della Rovere dall'entroterra we drove towards the sea.
'400 In the Marche, compared to other regions, lived an abnormal situation so as to be called "the fickle state", while other emerging regional states, here was the shape and the municipal government of the papacy was more formal than real. This certainly not helped to build either a regional or provincial consciousness.
Francesco Sforza, the Valentino, Francesco Maria Della Rovere are among the significant figures pù of this exuberant fragmented reality.
But in the humanistic Renaissance culture found in the courts of Montefeltro at Urbino, Pesaro Sforza to a vivacity and refinement that would compete with the courts most shining of the peninsula. Federico da Montefeltro was the 'man who knew how to combine human skills, cultural and military both from eseere still the man emblem of that period and that culture.
At the court of Urbino met the biggest names of the time. Raffaello Sanzio, who grew up in 'atmosphere of the court Urbino, he continued his work between Rome and Florence, leaving some works at home and a group of imitators that will affect inter alia the famous ceramics Casteldurante and Urbino. Carlo Crivelli, Lorenzo Lotto are the names of the Venetian that moved and worked long in the Marche, leaving major works that had a thickness to influence and revive a whole art to their close lower

From the eighteenth to Contemporary

In the second half of'700 spread in the region Enlightenment ideas, accompanied by the worship of the region, technology, progress. A Teignmouth, a little maceratese realities, l 'Accademia dei raised Georgica Academy became the first of its kind in the Papal States. Here were conducted studies of agronomy and we took care of social and educational issues.
Le Marche were not free of the campaign 'Italy of Napoleon, whose troops occupied Pesaro, Fano, Ancona, Macerata, but the adventure's French was marked by ups: on the one unconditional accession is passed to a wide opposition accompanied by violent clashes. In 1800, after the battle of Marengo, Napoleon gave the Marche at Ancona papal except that remained in France. The Congress of Vienna convened to give a new Europe after the defeat of Napoleon, in addition to divide Italy in many states more or less under the hegemony of the Habsburg Empire, except the kingdom of Savoy, finally delivered the Marches to the Pope.
The dissemination of ideas coal and mazziniane, in favor of independence and unity of Italy, also trigger in our region a series of motions that led insurgency Austrian jobs in a bid to quell the ferment of discontent that reigned in Ancona, as to Macerata and Ascoli, a Fano and Pesaro, in Senigallia.
On 11 September 1860, the general in command of Cialdini 'army entered the Piedmont region and on 18 September at Castelfidardo defeated the papal army. The battle resulted in victory for the liberation of Marche sugellata by a plebiscite that sanctioned the annexation of the region to the Kingdom 's Italy.
All this seemed to translate into new turmoil, entered service in the railway Ancona-Roma and then the rail del Tronto who joined the capital with Rimini and Pescara. The nineteenth century was a new season: the Sferisterio were born in Macerata, but especially the many theaters, part of an emerging power of the middle class and a new cultural sensitivity, small gems that housed and continue to host major opera seasons, with famous singers first major Italian and foreign composers. At the end of the nineteenth century the current liberty left pleasing examples in the region, especially in cities where there still seaside villas, gardens and buildings that continue to give all 'atmosphere of these actually a sophisticated and elegant tone.
During World War Marches suffered several bombings: the losses were considerable human and destruction caused by the bombing of one of the most tragic was that of Ancona in 1915. Equally serious were the consequences of the Second World War that was in the Resistance, especially in the Apennines, an event particularly strong occupant inflicting numerous losses.
After the Second World War Marches were characterized by predominantly agricultural economy that is struggling to develop and which was to emigration, some items such as tourism, crafts, small businesses slowly began to develop and seventies sugellarono definitively that this growth we went to consolidate in the next decade.