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The service in this hotel was very good. It's just a few steps from the beach and has an excellent restaurant. We were there in late September so all of the tourist crowds were gone. I'm pretty sure that the staff outnumbered the guests. We will definately stay here again.
Our next stop was staying at the Villa Castellani on a hillside near town of Mogliano, a diamond in a hidden gem of a region. Family-owned and managed, it could not be a more welcoming spot. Mogliano is a commune (village) located about a 4-hour drive south of Verona, past Bologna and Ancona.
We spent a well-balanced week of sight seeing, resting by the pool and eating, which was perfect. The Marche Region lacks the intensity of Tuscany or Umbria but was more of an adventure with fewer tourists. This also was the most bumbling time we have had with English speaking skills. At one restaurant, when the young waiter didn’t understand anything we were trying to say, he brought the owner over who gave us German menus! But they brought us gratis after-dinner drinks anyway.
From here we did ½ day adventures to several hilltop towns, seaside resort towns, and even hiked for 2 hours in a natural reserve park atop Monte Conero.
We also visited an old abbey, Monastero d’Fiastra, and heard monks in brown and white robes chanting in their chapel. We did a self tour of the underground cantina where the wine barrels, food, and water were stored and then walked the nature trails around the massive Riserva Naturale surrounding the monastery.
We used the pool at the villa at least twice each day, then napped in the hammock or read on the peaceful grounds. Our balcony room overlooked rolling hills of bright sunflowers and farms.
The meals at the villa (again, no menu) and around here were some of the best ever and featured items such as papardelle with a duck ragu, melon and proscuitto, carpaccio served with rucola (rockets), and duck gnocchi. Each day we had some sort of pizza also. Dinners start at 8:00 pm and by 9:00 pm, the tables were all full. The standard presentation is an antipasto, then a primo piatta (usually the pasta dish), a secondi piatta, and dessert and coffee. It is no surprise the meals go 2-3 hours. Our evening time line was altered since we usually are in bed during the 9 o’clock hour, but we saw 11:30 -12:00 eight days in a row! What a pleasure to see no McDonalds or TV. Evening meal time is for the family and people gathering
This is heaven. Situated in the centre of Le Marche this newly renovated farmhouse sits on a hilltop with 360 degree views of the stunning valleys and hills around. You can be in the swimming pool looking out at the glorious Le Marche hills and all you can hear are the birds and crickets. It is one of the most beautiful, picturesque and tranquil places I have ever stayed. What is also really lovely is this place is very Italian, the area is untouched by tourism.
The B&B is done with exquisite taste, using natural stone tile flooring, natural wood such as the beams in the ceilings and wooden worktops in the kitchen, stainless steel kitchen appliances, beautiful stone masonry, stunning mosaic tiled bathrooms, lovely dark wood furniture in the bedrooms, even the drains and guttering are made from copper. It is absolutely gorgeous.
The accommodation is the upstairs of a beautiful two story cream building with green shutters and a lovely tiled roof. It sits in 19 acres of countryside which in turn is completely surrounded by the rural rolling hills of Le Marche. The B&B accommodation is upstairs, downstairs is the private home of the proprietors. The B&B accommodation consists of two large double bedrooms which are next door to each other, each with their own shower rooms with lovely mosaic-tiled monsoon showers. There is a communal area consisting of a fully-equipped kitchen, dining area (which sits 8 people), living room and outdoor terrace. Next door is a suite which has its’ own double bedroom, shower room and living area, and those guests would also use the communal kitchen and dining area and terrace. Comfortably the accommodation takes 6, but can sleep 4 more at a squeeze if people are content to sleep on the sofas in the living areas (which fold out to be full-sized double sofa beds). The B&B is accessed from a side stairway (so you never have to disturb the proprietors) which takes you onto an amazing terrace which is communal for B&B guests. When things get too hot sitting on the terrace you can take a dip in the lovely new swimming pool, which is deep enough in the deep-end for diving, long enough to get some good swimming for exercise, and you can lie out on the wooden sunbeds on the poolside terrace, which come with cushions and they provide beach towels.
The kitchen is fantastically equipped with everything you will need to self-cater for your lunches and dinners if you don’t want to go to local restaurants, which is fantastic as it gives you complete freedom to do your own thing.
The accommodation itself is beautifully cool, with high beamed ceilings and thick walls with shuttered windows with fly screens. On this hilltop it always catches the cooling breezes, and can be 10 degrees cooler than down in the plain and coastline. So even in the baking midsummer heat, this place is a cool, breezy retreat. And if it gets too hot – there’s the pool!
Some small but very thoughtful finishing touches really made the visit special, like a homemade and delicious fruit smoothie for breakfast, and home-baked chocolate bread for breakfast or tea, which was magnificent.
Alison is a professional masseur and aromatherapy expert and provides the most amazing massages and hot stone treatments, an idyllic hour or so being pampered and afterwards felt utterly rejuvenated and refreshed, which was a marvellous way to start the holiday.
One of the best things on offer here as well as the treatments is the wine tasting, and you must take them up on this. The experience is priceless. Roberto really does know his stuff, so ask him questions. They provided 7 bottles of local wine, bought from the Enoteca in Jesi, and served them on the table on the B&B terrace. If you want to buy any more of what you have tasted to take home with you, you just go to the Enoteca in Jesi, which is about a 30 minute drive. Alison provided a dish of local antipasti which included absolutely delicious stuffed peppers, artichokes, olives, and amazing cheeses, all locally sourced. As we nibbled we sipped on local wines which are absolute gems, they chose a fantastic range. The wines they provided to taste were (Whites): Bonci San Michelle; Salerna Verdicchio dei castelli di Jesi classico 2007, €6.00; Plenio Verdecchio dei Castelli di Jesi Doc Classico Riserva 2005 – award winning, €14.50. Reds: Le Terre Rosso Piceno Doc 2007; Origolo Lacrima di Morro d’Alba Denominazione di Origine Controlla Superiore 2007 €8.50; Grosso Agontano Rosso Conero Doc Riserva Garofoli €14.50; Brecciarolo Rosso Piceno Superiore 2006, €7.50. They provided each wine with hand-written labels on the glasses so we knew which they were, and full tasting notes to go through the wines. They sat with us as we enjoyed this feast and Roberto provided fantastic insights into the wines. They’re all local, Roberto helped to pick the Salerna grapes, and they’re all amazing. This really was a very magical, special evening, and the proprietors’ efforts and attention to detail were typical of how they run this whole place, this was an enormous treat. A follow-up trip to the Enoteca in Jesi will add to this experience where you can go to the fantastic cellar in the Jesi walls and speak to fellow tasters and the proprietors there, it’s a lovely way to spend the afternoon and I highly recommend it. The Enoteca della Regione Marche Sezione di Jesi is on Via Fedrico Conti, 5 – Jesi and you can contact them at enoteca.jesi@libero.it or at their website www.assivip.it Do NOT MISS THIS if you’re visiting this region to discover the Verdecchio wines. Jesi itself is a lovely town to visit with it’s ancient walled town, a lovely place to walk around. I’d recommend you have the wine tasting early in your stay so that then you can enjoy sipping the wine you have bought for the tasting for the remainder of your visit. You can store the white wine in the fridge and they have provided vacuum bottle-stoppers to keep the wine fresh. Alison and Roberto are a really lovely couple, so we really enjoyed their company for this evening and sharing the wine and food, it was absolute perfection and something I will remember for the rest of my life.
Walks around the B&B are not to be missed, and are a lovely way to get some exercise to walk off all the wine and food through amazing countryside with stunning views of the area.
The nearest town to the B&B is Apiro.
Breakfast is provided in the B&B, and the way they provide it as a breakfast buffet is a really nice touch, as it gives you the privacy, especially if you’re the only one(s) staying there, and freedom so that you can get up and have breakfast in your own time, contrary to many B&Bs where you have to give a time or operate to the proprietors’ schedule. We could get up when we wanted, help ourselves to the breakfast buffet, and eat outside in our own time and privacy. It’s very romantic enjoying a lovely fresh breakfast on the terrace. For lunches there are restaurants all around, or you can use the fridge/ kitchen provided in the B&B to self-cater. I bought local delicacies from the mini market in Apiro to eat lunches on the terrace. I also ate at the following restaurants and can recommend them all: I Ponti is the best, this local family-run restaurant is fabulously relaxed, friendly and welcoming, and the food is utterly outstanding. I Ponti is on S Maria Candelora 62020 Moscosi di Cingoli, tel 0733.612944. Also try La Corte sul Lago (website www.lacortesullago.it) or La Emeraldo on 0733.612104. Expect to pay something like €35 per head in any of these restaurants for a lovely meal which includes a local bottle of wine such as Le Terre, anti-pasti, secondi and desert. They are all a very short drive from the B&B and are all in lovely locations with very, very friendly people serving.
A car is essential. I visited Jesi, Cupramonta, Apiro and Cingoli. These are all very typical hilltop towns of the area and are all delightful with stunning views of the Le Marche rolling hills. Slightly further afield we visited the Le Grotte di Frasssi and Urbino. The caves are utterly breathtaking, rivals to Carlsbad Caverns in the USA as being the most beautiful caves in the world. Urbino is a real gem, slightly bigger than any of the places near the B&B, and it takes nearly 2 hours to drive there, but it’s well worth the effort. You’re rewarded with the quintessential Renaissance medieval town. If you’re into beaches and the coast, Portonovo, Sirolo and Numana are not to be missed. It will take you about an hour and a half to get to them from the B&B. In the south of the region, about an hour and a half from the B&B don’t miss Ascoli Piceno, Petritoli, Macerata and Sarnano. Macerata is famous especially for opera lovers, their annual Sferisterio is not to be missed at the end of July/ beginning of August, see www.sferisterio.it for what must be one of the best treats in opera available.
The pool, wine tasting, massage treatments, amazing views, idyllic rural setting.
Once in Fabriano, I was looking for a nice hotel with parking nearby. My guidebook mentioned Hotel Antico and luckily I found a parking spot near the bus station and started to walk to the hotel. No Hotel Antico anymore, that’s what the sign said, but mini apartments. But opposite of this building I saw a sign “Collegio Gentile” and a nice smiling lady wiping the glass doors. She might have sensed that I was looking for a hotel and gestured me inside. I asked if she has a single room for 2 or 3 days and she said yes and pointed to the price board – 55 Euro only. I was pleased (happiness no. 1), she got my data and gave me the key. When I arrived in my room, I was pleased again (pleased no. 2) – spacious enough, big bathroom and quiet location to the rear courtyard. She said that I can park in their courtyard. This was being pleased no. 3 and I really felt in heaven. Of course the conversation wasn’t in English, but she managed to understand my Spanish and I roughly followed what she wanted to tell me. Plus – smiles are always the best communication method.
Well, but apart from a nice spot for my car, the hotel is really lovely. It is a longish building in L-shape (dates back to 17th century), only 3 floors, all terracotta coloured tiles on the floors and wood inside the rooms. The room has minibar and TV, a big desk to put my notebook and write and lovely typical Italian blinds at the windows. The bathroom was spotless clean, shower, bidet, toilet and sink.
Breakfast was served as a buffet with several kind of bread and croissants, cold cuts, cheese, jam, yoghurt and cereals, selection of teas and a coffee machine with several types of coffee.
The hotel is located in a quiet area of Fabriano and it takes only 10 minutes to walk to the centre.
Directions (as I might run out of space with the 255 characters below, haha):
On SS76, drive east until the bus station is on your left (west), Turn left here into Via Felice Cavalotti and take the second one to your left = Via Cavour. The hotel is located on your right, the long building.
Allan and I did something on this trip that we've never tried before: we went without any reservations for places to stay! It worked out even though there were some "trying" times.
After figuring up the expenses of the four places that we stayed in the Le Marche, it averages 47 Euro per night, which I feel is excellent, especially since they were all very clean, well located, and had firm beds and in-suite bathrooms.
Here are the four places that we stayed in the Le Marche Region of Italy:
A. Hotel Dell Arte, Rua della Lupa, 6, Ascoli Piceno
Telephone:
This hotel was noted as a 2-star by the Information Center, but posted at the hotel as a 3-star.
It has a small lift, tiny reception with lovely family portraits on the walls.
Our room was large with a queen-sized bed and bunk beds, an in-suite bathroom, and a balcony.
The location is perfect...down an ally-like street, but in the ancient center and close to all the sites. It was clean with firm beds, a TV, and plenty of storage. (40 Euro per night, and we stayed for two nights)
B.Our third night in Le Marche, we stayed in 2-star Hotel Roma in Piazza Garibaldi in Camerino.
This night cost (50 Euro), and it, too, was an excellent location, right in the heart of the ancient centre.
Our room had a firm Queen bed, an in-suite bathroom, a balcony, TV, and a restaurant.
It was spotlessly clean and quite comfortable.
C. Next, we stayed at 3-star Albergo Bramante located: Via Roma, 92 in 61049 Urbania (PU), Italy.
Telephone: 0722 319562. (50 Euro per night)
This location was acceptable but not perfect. It was a bit outside the ancient centre of Urbania.
It did have excellent parking facilities, a restaurant, large reception, beautiful bathroom, and a room with wooden floors, a queen and a twin bed, TV, and a balcony with European blinds.
The only problem with it was that no heat was turned on at this time, and it was a very cool night; thus, we piled on the blankets.
D. In Sirolo on the Adriatic Coast, we stayed in a Bed and Breakfast called "Conero Camere which was located at Via Grilli, 14, 60020 SIROLO (AN)
Telephone: 071-9330077
Cell: 333 7482274 & 339 2227991 (55 Euro per night but that included breakfast)
This was the only place in the region that breakfast was included.
It had the smallest room of the four hotels, but it was very well done with a firm Queen Bed, TV with one English-speaking station, a beautiful bathroom, but no balcony (on the first floor). Perfect location (probably the best of the four) across from the side of the Parish Church, block from the main piazza.
I was skeptical when Allan insisted that we "wing it" for freedom's sake and not make any reservations. I was so frightened that we would have to sleep in our car! It all turned out well, and the places we stayed were clean, convenient, and not too expensive.
We stayed two days and enjoyed them very much. Its not very easy to reach it but at least we did it! It's surrounded by green. Owner is very kind and he gives you many advices on restaurants and visits, he gives you many natural and tasty products for breakfast such as jams, juices, butter and biscuits. Rooms are clean and confortable, with wodden forniture and floor. We also had a terrace in our room and we stayed out to watch falling stars.
Exceptionally nice B&B. Conveniently located about 20 minutes from both Ascoli Piceno & San Benedetto del Tronto, nestling amongst olives & vines on the undulating Marche countryside is the tranquil Nascondiglio di Bacco (Bacchus hideaway).
Charmingly run by Silvia Cuneo, Nascondiglio di Bacco has warm, or cool, (according to season) rooms, immaculately decorated with stylish en-suites & stunning views. Excellent breakfasts are served at times to suit guests.
The B&B is in an terrific location for exploring southern Marche.
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, & Italian is spoken by the attentive & knowledgeable hosts.
Several very nice restaurants are within a few minutes drive.
We stayed for only two nights but would have loved to have stayed more & shall certainly return
Q: Small charming villages in mountainous Marche? "Sadly our own travel guides are very much beach oriented when it comes to Marche. I am looking for some accommodation and..."
A: "Have you already been to Offida? It's a nice town. http://www.comune.offida.ap.it/en/citta/default.asp"
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