Parco Nazionale
Parco Nazionale in Marche
6 towns
Marche holds 6 Parco Nazionale sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Macerata, Ascoli Piceno, and Fermo provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Amandola, Valfornace, and San Ginesio. 3 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Amandola
Province: Fermo · 550 m
A Sibillini gateway at 550 meters on three hills above the Tenna valley, founded 1248 and damaged but not levelled in 2016.
Valfornace
Province: Macerata · 441 m
An 872-resident Sibillini commune at 441 meters in the upper Chienti valley, born in 2017 from the merger of Pievebovigliana and Fiordimonte.
San Ginesio
Province: Macerata · 680 m
The Balcony of the Sibillini at 680 meters, where a 1295 pilgrim hospital and the only flowery gothic collegiate church in the Marche stand within the same walls.
Visso
Province: Macerata · 607 m
The northern Sibillini gate at 607 meters where the Nera meets the Ussita, holding one of two surviving manuscripts of Leopardi's L'Infinito.
Acquasanta Terme
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 392 m
A sulphur-spring spa at 392 meters in the upper Tronto valley, where the water still surfaces at 30 degrees.
Arquata del Tronto
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 777 m
At 777 meters between two national parks, the Marche commune levelled by the 2016 earthquakes and still rebuilding nine years on.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Battaglia Terme
Province: Padova
A barge village at the foot of the Euganean Hills, built around the 1201 canal and Italy's only river navigation museum.
Nusco
Province: Avellino
The Balcony of Irpinia at 914 meters, a ridge town between the Ofanto and Calore valleys, hometown of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.
Trani
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani
The Adriatic port whose pink-white Romanesque cathedral stands on the water, built for a Greek pilgrim who died here in 1094.
Auronzo di Cadore
Province: Belluno
A five-kilometer ribbon town along an artificial lake at 864 meters, the gateway to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo and Lake Misurina.
San Felice Circeo
Province: Latina
A medieval borgo on the flank of a promontory that Homer made the home of Circe in the Odyssey.