Itineraries

Small towns from the MiddleAge, fortified and still intact... with not even one souvenir shop!
Visiting a wine cellar and tasting the Verdicchio di Jesi and the Rosso Marche, and then making a walk between brick walls of the 1500. Discovering a small oil mill and savouring a mono-cultivation oil that tastes of true nature and then admiring pictures of the 1600 in a small art gallery. Speaking with people who greet you on the street and then let them suggest to you where to eat in a small trattoria you would never found alone.
To get lost in a hilly landscape of infinite gentleness or to go to the sea on the Velvet Beach of Senigallia.

This is a vacation in the Marches, by us in Corinaldo, in the:

Frattula Lands:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lands of Frattula stretch between the sea and the hills of Marches, encircling an almost unharmed rural landscape which reveals an ancient farming land whose roots date back to the Middle Age.
It was in this period that the monks of Fonte Avellana worked the lands where, in contrast to the rest of Italy, prosperity and abundance reigned. Due also to the help and work among the local peasants.

These past times have never been completely lost in the landscape and in the local traditions and today can be found on our tables, in typical products as the wine, olive oil, cheese, honey and salami of Frattula.
These products, including bacon and ham, are all made using local natural farm produce.
Taste these delicacies, a constant symbol of  authenticity that through time has never changed.

You can expect wonderful walks on the green and luxuriant hills lightly touched by the sea breeze, doted with majestic olive trees, lively vineyards and secular oaks, along the bank of Cesano River in the parks and uncontaminated glades.
Visit the cities of art and culture that form the Lands of Frattula:

Corinaldo
Castelcolonna
Monterado
Ripe
Senigallia,

Piticchio

towns rich with fascinating attractions from history to folklore.

Some of the texts have been reproduced by the kind permission of Associazione Terre di Frattula (www.terredifrattula.it)