Le Marche is the region on Italy’s Adriatic side, between the Apennines and the sea, south of Emilia-Romagna and east of Tuscany and Umbria. It covers around 9,700 square kilometres and has about 1.48 million inhabitants, with Ancona as its capital. In a couple of hours you can cross it from a mountain at over…
Autumn is the season Umbria was built for. Between September and November the region harvests everything it is known for — grapes, then olives, then truffle — and the calendar fills with the festivals that go with them. The towns empty of summer visitors, the light turns, and the woods that give the region its…
Choose Tuscany if this is your first trip to central Italy and you want Florence, Siena and the Val d’Orcia. Choose Umbria if you have been before, or if quiet matters more to you than a checklist. The landscapes are close cousins; the difference is scale, fame and how much of the region has been…
