Our small special patch of Italy lies in the region of Le Marche, on the eastern side of central Italy.  Wedged between the Adriatic sea and the spectacular Apennine mountains. A bucolic and varied region with untrammeled beaches, and dramatic atmospheric medieval hill-top villages, and pristine renaissance art-filled towns.

A region whose insider status has safeguarded its cultured ease and rural seclusion. The Italian writer Guido Piovene wrote that if he were compelled to pinpoint a single region in Italy that best represented the whole of Italy, that still possessed the archetypal Italian landscape, then he would have to choose Le Marche.

A region whose treasures can only be enjoyed, like the hills can be seen, in increments through a progression of miles and minutes as they are scattered right across the region. Gems like the spectacular Sibillini mountains on the border with Umbria or the white pebble beaches of Monte Conero on the Adriatic coast only accessible by foot or boat; from the catalyst of the Italian Renaissance and birthplace of Raphael, Urbino, in the north to the travertine marvel that is Ascoli Piceno in the south.