Senigallia is one of our favorite beach towns in the Marche. The seaside resort, which is extremely popular with Italians, offers the famous velvet beach, many good restaurants and a charming and lively old town. Outside of the main holiday month of August, when it is murderously crowded here, Senigallia Read more…
Villages in Italy are inevitably losing their inhabitants (the Italian population is among the oldest in Europe) and what is left are small municipalities with barely 1000 people. Le Marche has already faced the merging of different municipality in one new village; it was the municipality of Vallefoglia that once Read more…
When you say Copenhagen, you immediately think of the world-famous Little Mermaid. But did you know that there is also such a beautiful statue in a harbor in Le Marche?…and if I might say, with a much better background! For this you have to be in the seaside town of Read more…
Have you ever wished to get lost in a real maze? I have to admit, I have. And I was over the moon when I discovered that some hard working people had put up a real corn maze not so far from where I lived. I am talking about the Read more…
Hound Dog, King Creole, Barbara-Ann, Great Balls of Fire, Shout, Diana..no, we are not moving to the 50s America, and you are still on the right blog. Actually, it’s the ‘40s and ‘50s American culture that is moving to us, le Marche, to Senigallia, to be more precise. Summer Jamboree Read more…
As many young adults in my region, I am a proud granddaughter of two hard-working farmers. My grandparents, and before them, my grand-grandparents, were tenant farmers or, as they were called in Italy “mezzadri”. Mezzadria was a system of feudal land tenure whereby a farmer, namely my grandparents, paid half Read more…