Urbino and Marches UNESCO World Heritage
Among the Italian regions more interesting and rich of historical and cultural places, the Marches offer to the tourist a particularly various landscape, that extends it from the Adriatic Sea up to the high mountains of the Apennines.
Its territory include in fact beautiful and famous beaches as those of Senigallia and Marotta, the Coneropromontory with its natural park, but also the port towns of Ancona and Ascoli, the famous waterfront of St. Benedetto of Tronto with its palms, towns place of important cultural shows as Macerata, the Monti Sibillini ski-area and an infinity of medieval suburbs as Fermo, Montelupone, Potenza Picena, Montecassiano, Osimo, Gradara, St. Leo and many others.
Storia e cultura
The Marche have throughout the years endured an intriguing and fragmented story, at least up until the region had lost the temporary influence of the church. It is for this motive that the monuments of this countryside are varied to such an extent as to be compared to a splendid artistic tapestry. On the territory one can find many remains from the Roman period (XI-XIII) and Gothic (XIII-XV), but it is the Rinasciment which signals the high point of the art of the Marche. The activity is concentrated in many localities, the most important testimony you can find at Urbino, around the splendid Palace of Ducale; at Loreto in the Basilica of the Saint Casa; at Pesaro in the Palace of the Ducale and the Rocca; at Jesi in the Palace of the Lords; at San Leo in the Rocca.
