Marche Breaks

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The places where seniors live after work. "Good climate, health care quality and low prices”

NEW YORK - John Williams, a 62 years old chiropractor from Pennsylvania, moved to a farmhouse with an acre and a half of...

By Craig Seligman - Jul 28, 2010

Summer in Italy doesn’t have to mean standing in line for hours to view a Giotto or a Tintoretto for minutes. With a rental car -- and the stomach for curlicue curves -- you can breeze through Le Marche (or the Marches), a less traveled region on the Adriatic Coast.

The rewards: landscapes worthy of Renaissance masters. Immaculate hilltop towns. Fried olives, creamy prosciuttos, depraved lasagnas.

And...

Jousting Competition, Costume Procession, Celebrations, and Fireworks

From Teresa Plowright

Here's a look at the medieval jousting festival in Ascoli Piceno by about.com's guide to Family Vacations, Teresa Plowright.

Ascoli Piceno Vacation:

With multiple family trips to Italy under our belt, I felt reasonably familiar with this most bella...

The local specialty food of Ascoli Piceno is an addictive one: gigantic olives that are stuffed with meat and deep-fried. It may sound odd, but they are very good. In fact, Bryan loves them, and he normally does not eat olives! Around the Piceno, no party or antipasto plate is complete without them. The Ascolani say that this tradition actually dates back to Roman times, but, like mo...

The passion of a sophisticated and cultured art collector relives in the masterpieces of the great artists, restoring 17th century magnificence to an ancient residence. The visions of beauty seen by Cardinal Giambattista Pallotta, a refined politician in Baroque Rome and the Pontifical Legate in Emilia, have again brought luster to Caldarola, a genuine architectonical and urban treasure, through the restor...

Ascoli Piceno is going to be the capital of  Fritto Misto, an event dedicated to wine and foods held in the city from April 30th to May 3rd. The city which gave birth to the famous DOP (Protected Origin Denomination) Ascolana Olives is dedicating a non-stop four day event to good eating and drinking. Created by Tuber Communications, this event celebrating fried foods, has been realized in collaboration with the Perugia company Sedicieventi. Over 40,000 people attended last year's edition...

On Holy Thursday, Italian Catholics meet together in church to take part in “Jesus’ last supper with Apostles”, followed by the so called “Santi Sepolcri”. Every church, after the celebration of the Holy Thursday mass, displays a symbol recalling Jesus Christ and his death. People visit the churches of their own towns to pray before this holy symbol. On the evening of Good Friday, after dinner, there...

Raphael returns to his eastern Italian Marche region hometown Urbino on Saturday in a show highlighting the influence of his father Giovanni Sanzio's workshop and that of Sanzio's friend Perugino.

The youthful experiences and early artworks of a man who would become one of the grea...

We can't get enough of latte crudo - whole, raw, unpasteurized, unhomogenized milk! We gather...

City Worth Visiting Near the Shores of the Adriatic Sea

It's obvious that Borgo Tranquillo is different from the typical Italian country g...