Parco Regionale
Parco Regionale in Marche
9 towns
Marche holds 9 Parco Regionale sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Ancona and Pesaro e Urbino provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Pesaro, Genga, and Numana. 6 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Pesaro
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 11 m
The Adriatic port at the mouth of the Foglia, founded as Roman Pisaurum in 184 BC and given to the world by Rossini in 1792.
Genga
Province: Ancona · 322 m
A small Sentino-valley commune at 322 meters whose territory holds the Frasassi caves, the largest karst show cave in Italy.
Numana
Province: Ancona · 56 m
A Conero coastal town at 56 meters above its port, the Picene harbor that traded with Greek ships from the sixth century BC.
Serra San Quirico
Province: Ancona · 409 m
A stone borgo on Monte Murano at the entrance to the Gola della Rossa, ringed by 1300 walls with covered passageways called copertelle.
Sirolo
Province: Ancona · 125 m
A clifftop borgo at 125 meters, above the Due Sorelle sea stacks of the Adriatic.
Arcevia
Province: Ancona · 535 m
A hilltop borgo at 535 meters above the Misa and Nevola valleys, defended in the Middle Ages by a ring of nine satellite castles.
Fabriano
Province: Ancona · 325 m
The Italian paper town at 325 meters, trading handmade paper since 1264 and marking it with watermarks since the late thirteenth century.
Gabicce Mare
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 8 m
The northernmost Marche seaside on the Adriatic, where the coast meets the cliffs of the Parco del San Bartolo at the Romagna border.
Carpegna
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 748 m
A Montefeltro mountain town under Monte Carpegna, home of the DOP prosciutto and the seventeenth-century Carpegna family seat.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Castel di Tora
Province: Rieti
A village of 273 on Lago del Turano at 607 meters, with an eleventh-century polygonal tower and a ghost promontory called Antuni.
Aiello Calabro
Province: Cosenza
A hilltop borgo at 502 meters in the Tyrrhenian hinterland of Cosenza, ruled for two centuries by the Cybo-Malaspina from Massa Carrara.
Licciana Nardi
Province: Massa-Carrara
A Lunigiana Malaspina village at 215 meters in the Apennine Tosco-Emiliano park, named in 1933 for the Risorgimento patriot Anacarsi Nardi.
San Vito Lo Capo
Province: Trapani
A three-kilometer white-sand beach at Sicily's northwest tip, the town that turned cous cous into a September festival.
Varallo
Province: Vercelli
The capital of Valsesia at 450 meters, crowned by a forty-five-chapel devotional complex on the rock above town.