Spighe Verdi
Spighe Verdi in Marche
9 towns
Marche holds 9 Spighe Verdi sites inside our catalogue. Most cluster in the Macerata, Ancona, and Ascoli Piceno provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Senigallia, Grottammare, and Mondolfo. 6 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Senigallia
Province: Ancona · 5 m
Thirteen kilometers of fine sand on the Adriatic, hometown to a chef and a photographer whose names carry beyond the region.
Grottammare
Province: Ascoli Piceno · 4 m
A double town on the Riviera delle Palme, with a palm-lined seafront and a medieval upper borgo where Pope Sixtus V was born.
Mondolfo
Province: Pesaro e Urbino · 144 m
A walled hill borgo at 144 meters above the Adriatic, with the frazione of Marotta and its beach below.
Montelupone
Province: Macerata · 272 m
A walled hill borgo at 272 meters above the lower Potenza valley, with a fourteenth-century civic loggia and a 1889 horseshoe theater.
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.
Montecassiano
Province: Macerata · 188 m
A walled hill borgo north of Macerata, whose Collegiata holds a seven-meter glazed terracotta altarpiece by fra' Mattia della Robbia.
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.
Sirolo
Province: Ancona · 125 m
A clifftop borgo at 125 meters, above the Due Sorelle sea stacks of the Adriatic.
Esanatoglia
Province: Macerata · 467 m
A medieval village of seven bell towers at 467 meters on the Marche-Umbria border, sitting at the source of the Esino river.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Vignola
Province: Modena
The cherry-and-castle town on the Panaro at 125 meters, where a fortress and a self-supporting 1500s spiral staircase mark the skyline.
La Thuile
Province: Aosta Valley
Italy's gateway to the Petit Saint-Bernard pass: a 1,441m alpine village under Mont Blanc, with the Rutor glacier and its tiered waterfalls behind it and a Roman-Salassi history that goes back two millennia.
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.
Corniglio
Province: Parma
A 690-meter Parma-Apennine commune inside the Tosco-Emiliano park, with a thirteenth-century Rossi castle and the Lagdei plateau above.
Volterra
Province: Pisa
The Etruscan acropolis of Velathri at 531 meters, the alabaster town that has been carving the same stone for three thousand years.