Road trip in central Italy (Sibillini national park)
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A road trip of 1100 km by motorcycle, that includes a plethora of colors, flavors and tastes in central Italy (Sarnano, Amandola, Castelluccio, Montegallo, Spello, Assisi, Collepino, Perugia). Spello and its famous flower festival, which was taking place during this period, was the main reason for organizing this road trip. It is called Infiorata di Spello and is mainly a religious feast.
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Appassionata - Le Marche.....Italy's best kept secret.
Situated in the delightful, undiscovered region of Le Marche, Appassionata’s properties nestle gently in the rolling hills and charming medieval villages.
The Italian region of Le Marche is a truly special place, a hidden gem that most people dont know about.
The region prides itself on being quintessentially Italian, and offers visitors and locals alike everything you would imagine, but unlike some of its more renowned adjacent regions, it still remains one of Italy’s best-kept secrets.
As you become acquainted with this delightful area, you will see its contrasts and get to know what makes it a little bit different from its neighbours.
Picture a place where the mountains roll gently down to stunning coastline, with vistas that tease your eyes towards another beautiful, enticing hilltop town.
Le Marche is a working region, where generations of families have farmed the land for hundreds of years.
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I Sibillini - Monti Sibillini National Park, Italy (manortiz)
• Namesake Mount Sibilla is named for a legendary prophetess named Sibyl. Knights and other petitioners from across Europe made the arduous journey to her remote cave, the story goes, in hopes of gaining a few precious pearls of wisdom.
• Village Charm Eighteen charismatic towns, tucked in and among the mountains, are packed with historic art and abbeys, castles, and medieval town centers that evidence an ancient relationship between the land and its people.(...)
• Park Peaks Here in the heart of the Sibillini Mountains ten peaks soar above 6,560 feet (2,000 meters), led by Mount Vettore, which tops out at 8,123 feet (2,476 meters). The mountainous slopes that reach these dizzying heights are cut by narrow valleys and rushing rivers before giving way to pastoral alpine landscapes below the tree line.
• Plants and Animals The park is home to 1,800 plant species and a wild bouquet of mountain flowers including edelweiss, pasqueflowers, martagon lilies, bearberries, and various orchids. Animal life includes wolves and wild mountain cats as well as prickly porcupines. Roe deer have recently been reintroduced. Golden eagles, peregrine falcons, eagles, owls, goshawks, snow finches, and sparrow hawks fill the skies. And small invertebrates are among the more interesting inhabitants—several live nowhere else on Earth except in a lake here.
• Local Flavor The Sibillini Mountains have some outstanding culinary offerings. Perched between the Marches and Umbria, a smorgasbord of cured meats is always on offer. Other tasty local fare includes apples, honey, truffles, mushrooms, chestnuts, chickpeas, and vin cotto or cooked wine.
How to Get There
Trains stop in Ascoli Piceno, Spoleto, and Camerino. Bus routes also serve these towns and reach Fermo as well.
When to Visit
Winters in the mountains are cold and snowy yet beautiful, especially to cross-country skiers and other winter sport enthusiasts. And the region's thermal springs are especially welcome at this time. Spring brings the blooming of alpine flowers, and when truly warm weather hits the entire spectrum of outdoor activities is in full swing.
How to Visit
Monti Sibillini National Park is an adventure sport center. Mountain biking, horseback riding, hang gliding, paragliding, and climbing are all popular activities here. But other visitors happily stick to town streets and enjoy the artistic, cultural, culinary, and historic traditions that have arisen and endured here over the centuries.
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Torre di Palme - Marche - Italy
- Torre di Palme is a fraction of the town of Fermo, in the province of the same name. Was an independent municipality until 1877, when he was included in the province of Ascoli Piceno, where he continued to be owned by its capital until the latter has in turn became the provincial (2004). It rises 104 m s.l.m. close to the Adriatic Sea, and has a population of 176 inhabitants.
It is a completely preserved medieval village and the ancient Incas, creating a much higher near the sea, has a remarkable panoramic view of the sea shore, at the Marina Palmense and the A14 motorway that runs alongside.
Marina Palmense is the beach of Torre di Palme, which is ten kilometers from the city of Fermo.
San Benedetto del Tronto - Riviera delle Palme
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National Park of Sibillini Mountains
The flora and fauna of the Sibillini embody the wild spirit that makes every experience of these mountains unforgettable. The enchanting vegetation tends to change as it approaches the basal core of the Sibillini, an altitude of 500 m at its highest peaks. Until about 1000 m a forest of durmast, black hornbeam, and mannash predominates, giving way to mixed beechwood, which eventually becomes pure beechwood. Today the upper limit of forest vegetation hangs at about 1700 -1750 m, some 100 m below the what it was in the past; this was caused by past clearcutting in the development of pasture areas. Above the potential woodland limit are primary or natural pastures where prized, rare species can be found.
The National park of the Monti Sibillini is distinguished by the presence of many medieval settlements and villages of great emerging historical and architectural interest, strategically situated along the principal roads.
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ITALY: Hiking and hitch-hiking on the E1 Trail
Travelling across Italy became the first stage of the project Around the World by Foot, within which Valery Shanin explores the best pedestrian trails of the world.
Lyudmila Parova became Valery Shanin's fellow traveler in the hike along the E1 Trail.
The travel begins in Rome. Exactly here, is the largest international airport in Italy.
On the territory of Rome, the left and right banks of Tiber are connected by 26 bridges. Along with new ones, there are also fairly old constructions, that remained.
St. Peter's Cathedral in Vatican — the biggest Catholic church in the world
The Castle of the Holy Angel or Castel Sant'Angelo, initially was the Mausoleum of the Emperor Adrian and members of his family.
The town of Kampoli Apenino is built around a huge karstic landslip, almost of a perfect semicircular shape.
The cozy medieval town Opi, is included in the prestigious list of the most beautiful villages of Italy.
Infiorate, is the flower festival on the occasion of the Catholic holiday of the Christ's Body and Blood.
The famous Italian philosopher, historian and literary critic Benedetto Croce, was born in Peskasseroli, in 1866. But an even greater influence on the destiny of the city and its appeal to tourists, was rendered by the event that took place on September 9, 1922. On this day, the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molize was created. Here is its headquarters. From here the most popular tourist walking trails begin.
The City of Rocca-di-Medzo, has been founded as a military settlement back in the Middle Ages. But when exactly, nobody knows. The oldest part of the city is on the San Kalvario Hill.
The City of Castelluco is located on the rocky hill, 1452 meters above the sea level. It is the highest settlement in Apennines.
In winter, people come here for skiing, and to admire yellow fields of blossoming colza in summer, to wander in the boundless sea of wild flowers. Here you can see the gentians, poppies, narcissuses, violets, asfodels, the violet lady's bedstraws, clovers, cranberries and other types of wild flowers.
The small town of Visso, is located in the Valley of the Neru River, on the ancient road, connecting Rome with Folinio.
The National Park of Monti Sibillini, the name, that can be translated as the Park of Mysterious Mountains, was created in 1993, on the territory of 70 thousand hectares in the Italian regions of Umbria and Marke.
Todi, located in the province of Perugia, on the high hill over the eastern bank of Tiber River, is often called the city, most suitable for life, in the world.
Narration was done by Frederic Moretti (fredericmorettimusic@gmail.com)
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LE MARCHE (ITALIA) - TERRITORIO, CULTURA, TRADIZIONI, ARTE... CON AUDIO GUIDA IN ITALIANO
Affacciate sul mare Adriatico al centro dell'Italia, con poco
più di un milione e mezzo di abitanti distribuiti nelle cinque
province di Ancona, città capoluogo, Pesaro e Urbino,
Macerata, Fermo e Ascoli Piceno, e appena un comune
su quattro superiore ai cinquemila abitanti, le Marche, da
sempre porta d'Oriente del nostro Paese, sono l'unica
regione italiana al plurale. Caratterizzata dalla presenza dei
monti Appennini, che dolcemente degradano lungo vallate
parallele fino al mare. La regione si contraddistingue per la
rara bellezza che l'ha resa terra di grandi personalità, da
Giacomo Leopardi a Raffaello, da Giovan Battista Pergolesi
a Gioachino Rossini, da Gaspare Spontini a Padre Matteo
Ricci a Federico II, che qui sono nati.