The flavours of The Marche – Between art, tastes and breathtaking landscapes…

Arrive in Pesaro, visit of the city considered the homeland of the great composer Gioacchino Rossini and home to the “Rossini Opera Festival”, as well as the birthplace transformed into a museum. The Civic Museums of Pesaro collect paintings, majolicas and Renaissance ceramics. The pride of the art gallery is The Coronation of the Virgin by Giovanni Bellini. In the Cathedral, built in the Romanesque period, is preserved a testimony of a glorious past, a polychrome stained glass double mosaic floor. At the end of the visit hotel accommodation, dinner and overnight.

Breakfast at the hotel, transfer to Acqualagna for a very special experience: a truffle hunt with an expert truffle hunter and his dog. A walk through the woods and an accurate explanation of the search for the famous tuber. At the end tasting with typical products and truffles. Transfer to Pergola, a medieval town famous for its “golden bronzes”. In the Museum set up at the convent complex of San Giacomo, is preserved the equestrian group known as “the Bronzes of Cartoceto di Pergola”, consisting of two male figures on horseback and two female figures standing, which gave rise to various hypotheses of reading and interpretation by historians and scholars. Stop in a local winery to taste the famous “visciolata”, a red wine flavored with visciole, that is a variety of cherries. Transfer to Fabriano, hotel accommodation, dinner and overnight.

Breakfast at the hotel, visit of the medieval historic center of Fabriano characterized by the main fountain called “Sturinalto”, and the Palazzo del Podestà, the oldest Gothic civil building of the Marche. Visit the Paper and Watermark Museum where you can learn all the steps of the handmade paper. Free lunch, in the afternoon transfer to Genga to visit the karst complex of the Frasassi Caves, spectacular underground world characterized by a succession of salt, tunnels and small crystallized lakes. Continue to Serra San Quirico surrounded by imposing walls dominated by the fourteenth-century Torre del Cassero. The interior of the village, still characterized by paved stone streets, seems to have stopped in time. Stop in a winery in the area to visit and taste the famous Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi. Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight.

Breakfast at the hotel, transfer to Jesi: birthplace of Frederick II, G. B Pergolesi and Verdicchio, which boasts the title of “Exemplary City” UNESCO for the architectural integration of its various historical layers. Visit the city, which in addition to the city walls with gates, square, polygonal and cylindrical towers, has a wonderful main square where the Cathedral of San Settimio is located, while in Piazza Colocci, there is the Palazzo della Signoria. In Piazza della Repubblica stands the Pergolesi Theatre, originally called “della Concordia”, built between 1790 and 1798 and dedicated to the famous composer Giovan Battista Pergolesi, born in Jesi in 1710. Transfer to San Paolo di Jesi to stop at an oil mill, with a visit and tasting of various types of olive oil and local products. End of services.