We had never experienced such a late summer in Le Marche. Sometimes the thermometer even showed 30 degrees! But the landscape around us is slowly adjusting to autumn and is showing the first shades of brown, red and yellow. On beautiful sunny days, you are naturally drawn out into nature Read more…
The olive fever is rising in Le Marche! This year earlier than usual due to the warm and dry summer. Everywhere you drive by, you will see the nets laid out around the olive trees and the diligent pickers. When you meet someone now, the question is: have you started Read more…
The seasons in Le Marche are all fascinating, but now, after the hot summer, we should enjoy the autumn with golden sunlight, the scent of mushrooms in the forest, the end of vendemmia (grape harvest), the beginning of the olive harvest, chestnut gatherings, polenta festivals, discolored leaves, wood and fireplace Read more…
The night of September 15-16, 2022 will be forever etched in the Marchigian memory; in one night the same amount of precipitation fell as normal in half a year in the Marche ! The bone-dry ground proved unable to absorb that much water, so it rushed into the valleys where Read more…
San Severino Marche has a lower part (basso) and an upper city (alto)! Indeed, the oldest part, called the Castello, is located on Monte Nero. This is where the inhabitants of the Roman Septempeda in the valley fled during the raids of the gutters. (6th century AD)The Borgo came later Read more…
We have already published several articles about the castle villages of Arcevia: Caudino and Nidastore, Castiglioni, Palazzo, San Pietro and Loretello and finally Piticchio.But we haven’t written anything about Arcevia itself yet! A few Sundays ago Isabelle and Erik visited the archaeological museum in Arcevia with a guided tour (that Read more…