Typical Products of the Marche Region

From Pesaro to San Benedetto del Tronto, the Marche region represents a long stretch of coastline flanked by an Apennine foothill crown. Land of large prestigious fishing ports on the Adriatic. A region rich in marine tourism and slow tourism with a large amount of B&B and farmhouses used for hospitality in magnificent inland places.

Le Marche is so called because it consisted of a series of very important families and families that governed small city-states. In municipal and Renaissance times Pesaro, Fano, Ancona, Jesi, Fermo, Ascoli Piceno, Camerino, Fabriano, San Severino Marche, Urbino, Senigallia. A constellation of peoples linked to their lordship, among whom there were excellent relations of economic exchange and strategic territorial political cohesion. The Marche region is a fascinating region rich in humanism and arts.

Among its illustrious citizens are the great Raffaello Sanzio, Bramante, Gentile da Fabriano, Pope Sixtus V, Giacomo Leopardi, Gioacchino Rossini, Maria Montessori and finally the unforgettable Beniamino Gigli. They are a dynamic and at the same time noble and silent land. The people of the Marches are frank people, hard workers and above all industrious

TYPICAL PRODUCTS FROM THE MARCHE REGION

Agriculture in these lands is linked to fish farming all along the coast and then, going up the various valleys and hills, in the western area, there are large vineyards, the entire Verdicchio area in Jesi and Matelica, the Conero, the land of Morro d'Alba with its Lacrima, Serrapetrona with the only sparkling red Italian Vernaccia, the lands of Offida and San Severino, the hills of Esino and Metauro. Le Marche is associated with the freshness and sapidity of wines that breathe sea breezes and their character and their characteristic pleasantness and shelf life depend a lot on this climate.

Red wines are also very popular, in smaller quantities, but very special. In Morro d'Alba, in particular, there is a poetic grape variety called Lacrima, because, after winter pruning, it causes the sap to drain until the plant walls heal. A spectacle of nature. Marche also means cereals and wheat, in a particular way. One of the wheat reserves for our country after Puglia. The golden fields can be seen all along the highway that runs through the lower hilly part of the region. Homemade pasta, even durum wheat pasta, is a peculiarity of the people of the Marche region who never miss a rolling pin in the kitchen.

The presence of long mountain ranges and hills on the border with Tuscany and Umbria favors herding and the raising of meat and dairy animals. In particular, the White Calf of the Central Apennines IGP and its Marchigiana species. As far as sheep are concerned, on the other hand, a flourishing dairy production must be kept in mind, whose tradition is lost in the mists of time. A testimony of a typical Marche production is the Casciotta di Urbino DOP, a particularly refined and creamy cheese that smells of flowers and aromatic herbs that enrich the meadows of the Apennine foothills.

A very special product is Prosciutto di Carpegna DOP, which has a particularly flattened and rounded shape, with an always particularly rosy slice of salmon. Another typical cold cut that is now well known abroad is Ciauscolo IGP, a version of Lucanica, a small fresh salami, aged for 15 days containing pork, white wine, garlic and pepper. A food that is part of the Marche tradition and, in particular, of Ascoli Piceno, which has conquered the world for its goodness and started thanks to a popular intuition in medieval times, is the Ascolana del Piceno Olive PDO. Created to hide meat from feudal raids in medieval times, this olive attracts hundreds of thousands of greedy visitors to this forerunner of the aperitif every year in Ascoli Piceno.

The Marche region is one of the regions with the highest production of quality extra virgin olive oil. The climate is ideal and there are areas that have been certified by the PDO such as Cartoceto Extra Virgin Olive Oil. The Marche region is a dream region where medieval and Renaissance feudal houses have left beautiful artistic and architectural works. It is a region that fights against adversity and, especially in recent years, has endured pain and destruction after two very serious earthquakes, the last one last summer 2016 in the area of Arquata del Tronto, Amandola, Norcia.

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