During the Spring Cultural Open Days of FAI, Isabelle and Erik visited Il Museo Didattico della Vaporiera (the museum of the steam engine) in the paper town of Fabriano. It is from 1866 that the steam trains on the line Falconara-Foligno (Umbria) started to be used and were usually leaving Read more…
Our loyal readers will immediately recognize the name San Romualdo! How often did we mention this saint in our articles? The Saint was born between 951-953 in Ravenna, not exactly near Le Marche, especially at that time! Around the age of 20 he converted to the Benedictine order, stayed in Read more…
In December Isabelle and Erik went to visit the Oratory del Gonfalone and the nativity scenes in Fabriano. If you remember well, we talked about it in a post and we revealed that it was nothing but an ordinary visit! They unexpectedly got a tour of very special places in Read more…
December is definitely the right month for some nativity scenes-sightseeing. Last year I visited a true mechanical work of art in Porto San Giorgio (keep updated, that soon I’ll talk about the 2022 visit), in Castiglioni near Arcevia the locals annually provide original Christmas scenes and in Jesi we also Read more…
Creativity cannot be caged into just one discipline. And that’s what Roberta Gagliardini absolutely didn’t want to do it. Elke and I visited her in her small atelier in Fabriano some time ago, and we discovered a very hectic artist. Roberta started her artistic career with many courses in artistic Read more…
“Enjoy the journey” should have been the motto for the reopening of the Fabriano-Pergola train route. The destination is so important nowadays, that we almost forget to look out from the window, while we travel. And the lucky people that got the tickets for the historic train traveling this October Read more…