From View: Palazzo Ducale in Urbino: the seat of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, where are works of great value. Among the paintings on display recall paintings by Raphael, Titian and Piero della Francesca. In addition to the museum you can visit the rooms with period furnishings and the huge underground palace.
The Caves are located in Frasassi Genga, about 60 km from Ancona. They are the largest karst complex of Italy and spread to a location visited by about 1.5 kilometers, rich in stalactites and stalagmites. The largest cavity is called the Great Cave of the Wind. Not far away is the gorge Frasassi, 2 km long, between 2 mountains close (Frasassi and Valmontagnana) and full of caves are often difficult to access. At the entrance of the cave shrine is a small church dated 1828 by Valadier in the Virgin Mountains of Canova.
Recanati, in the province of Macerata. To visit the birthplace of the poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) in which through autographs, articles, books and unpublished written across it recounts the life of the poet.
The Santa Casa di Loreto: destination for religious pilgrimages, and 'the most famous shrines of Italy. Built between the XV and XVIII century by the will of the Popes to preserve the house that the tradition is miraculously arrived in Italy from Nazareth.
Riviera del Conero: about 10 km from Ancona, and is the only stretch of coast of the Adriatic coast.
It includes the enchanting bay of Portonovo, Sirolo, medieval village overlooking the sea, Numana, piceno old port and its beach Marcelli. Since 1987 was established the Regional Park of Conero.
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Cuisine and Wines:
Kitchen and cooking sea mountain: the coast, famous for its fish soup, with or without saffron, wild for the skewers of the sea and in potacchio stockfish and their hinterland is renowned for vincisgrassi for Stuffed olives Ascoli, for the suckling pig, boned and stuffed the aromas, and truffles, are competing for a record featuring the cuisine of Marche.
I brodetti, fish soups of the Adriatic, various techniques are born from place to place on the coast and count among their ingredients, as many fish, like mackerel, flounder, turbot, mullet, cod, sole, dogfish, capon, eels and scorpion fish, and crickets, shrimp, cuttlefish and squid.
I have wonderful vincisgrassi rectangular lasagna, served with mushrooms, livers and truffles, covered with sauce.
With cappelletti to Pesaro, stuffed with a filling of roast pork, boiled, egg, parmesan and nutmeg, are the most important first local dishes.
The porchetta, smelling of garlic and fennel, crispy surface and soft inside, and a cornerstone of the cuisine of the Marches with tasty fried olives, stuffed with meat, livers and scented breadcrumbs of nutmeg and cinnamon.
Sweets are less traditional, but you can conclude a good meal of ravioli with marchigiano short pastry or Ciambellina, even if, on the site, you prefer to get up from the table, after a taste of fresh pecorino and compact, crisp and pasture grasses good. |