Sunset over Macerata

  [quote]If San Vicino puts the hat, sell the goats and buy the umbrella. If San Vicino puts the pants, sell umbrella and buy the goats.” (Proverb)[/quote] Le Marche is a fascinating and mysterious italian region, full of myths, legends, proverbs and folk tales that the elders of the villages, scattered in the mountains and…

[quote]”Vielleicht wenn ich Flügel hätte, um über den Wolken zu fliegen, und die Sterne einen nach dem anderen zählen könnte, oder wie der Donner von Gipfel zu Gipfel springen, könnte ich glücklicher sein, meine süße Herde, könnte ich glücklicher sein, schneeweißer Mond.”. (Giacomo Leopardi)[/quote] Es passiert nicht jeden Tag, dass man verzaubert zurückbleibt von der…

Based on a previous church dating back to the ninth century, the Abbey of Fiastra is one of the finest and best preserved monuments of Cistercian architecture in Italy and the most important monastic building of the Marches. The Cistercians, arrived in this place between Fiastra and Chienti rivers in 1142 from the monastery of…

  [quote]“Le Marche is an open book of Art History. Each school of painting is present, the greatest artists of their time they arrived in the Marche and it was like a homecoming. Because in the Marche it is like feeling at home.” (Vittorio Sgarbi)[/quote] In Macerata, in the central Palazzo Buonaccorsi, a museum of…

[quote]”My house is small, but its windows are opened on an endless world.” (Confucio)[/quote] When, after the Mount Vettore and the massif of the Sibillini, the eye moves towards to the south and the mountains free up the view on the endless territories who look at the Abruzzi, it is there that, even before the…