Spighe Verdi
Spighe Verdi in Marche
9 towns
Marche holds 9 Spighe Verdi sites inside our catalogue. They cluster in the Macerata, Ancona, and Ascoli Piceno provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Montelupone, Senigallia, and Grottammare. 6 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Montelupone
Province: Macerata · 272 m
A walled hill borgo at 272 meters above the lower Potenza valley, with a fourteenth-century civic loggia and a 1889 horseshoe theatre.
Senigallia
Province: Ancona · 5 m
Thirteen kilometers of fine sand on the Adriatic that earned the Spiaggia di Velluto name, hometown of photographer Mario Giacomelli and chef Mauro Uliassi.
Grottammare
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 4 m
A double town on the Riviera delle Palme, with a palm-lined seafront and the medieval Paese Alto where Pope Sixtus V was born.
Matelica
Province: Macerata · 354 m
A Verdicchio town at 354 meters in the upper Esino valley, with a Roman marble globe in its archaeological museum.
Mondolfo
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 144 m
A walled hill borgo at 144 meters above the Adriatic, with the frazione of Marotta and its Bandiera Blu beach below.
Montecassiano
Province: Macerata · 188 m
A walled hill borgo at 188 meters north of Macerata, holding the seven-meter terracotta altarpiece Mattia della Robbia fired in a kiln built in town.
Esanatoglia
Province: Macerata · 358 m
A medieval village of seven bell towers at 358 meters on the Marche-Umbria border, sitting at the source of the Esino river.
Numana
Province: Ancona · 56 m
A Conero coastal town at 56 meters above its port, the Picene harbour that traded with Greek ships from the sixth century BC.
Sirolo
Province: Ancona · 125 m
A clifftop borgo at 125 meters on the southern flank of Monte Conero, above the Due Sorelle sea stacks of the Adriatic.
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