Città del Vino
Città del Vino in Marche
6 towns
Marche has 6 Città del Vino communes in our index. They are in the Ancona, Ascoli Piceno, and Macerata provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Ripatransone, Matelica, and Morro d'Alba. 3 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Ripatransone
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 494 m
The Belvedere del Piceno at 494 meters, ridgetop borgo with views to the Adriatic and the narrowest alley in Italy at 43 centimeters.
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.
Morro d'Alba
Province: Ancona · 199 m
A walled Castello di Jesi at 199 meters above the Esino valley, ringed by a covered walkway found nowhere else in Italy.
Morrovalle
Province: Macerata · 247 m
A hilltop borgo at 247 meters above the Chienti valley, its walled centro storico grown from a medieval castle called Mor-ro.
Offida
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 293 m
A hill borgo at 293 meters in the Piceno wine country, with a Romanesque-Gothic cliff church and women still working bobbin lace.
Staffolo
Province: Ancona · 442 m
The Verdicchio balcony at 442 meters above three valleys, with a near-circular medieval wall ring and a wine museum carved into the ramparts.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Pachino
Province: Siracusa
One of Sicily's southernmost towns, on the Capo Passero promontory, and the name behind the Pomodoro di Pachino PGI cherry tomato.
Aymavilles
Province: Aosta Valley
A village at 646 meters above a river gorge, where the road up the valley begins and a Roman aqueduct still crosses the Grand'Eyvia on a single arch.
Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia
Province: Teramo
At 415 meters at the foot of a massif holding the Apennines' highest peak outside Sicily, the commune's sanctuary ranks among the world's fifteen most-visited Catholic shrines.
Susegana
Province: Treviso
The Collalto castle town at 76 meters on the left bank of the Piave, holding one of the largest medieval fortresses in northern Italy.
Ripalimosani
Province: Campobasso
A sandstone-ridge village at 640 meters above the Biferno valley, the historic land of the funai rope makers and a Tintilia wine commune.