Marche Tours

Get your hands dirty with this interactive ceramics workshop in Ascoli Piceno. Learn old and new techniques during this hands-on workshop, led by a local guide. Known as the city of ceramics, Ascoli Piceno is home to many ceramic laboratories and craftsmen. All tools and materials are included and you will create your own souvenir during the workshop.

Journey to one of the loveliest and most unspoiled tracts of wilderness along Italy’s Adriatic Coast on this small-group tour to Conero Regional Park. Known for its many hiking trails, cliff-top views, and azure waters, the park is favored by hikers and sightseers. During this excursion, leave the navigating to your guide, and head directly to the park’s most scenic corners.

If you’ve fallen in love with one of Le Marche’s most famous specialties but don’t know how to prepare them yourself, pick up the secrets and tricks to turning out traditional olive ascolane with this small-group cooking class. Learn how to stuff, bread, and fry local olives with an experienced chef at a farm or city location, and then taste your handiwork during a meal to cap off the lesson.

The Sibillini Mountains National Park, with its unusual “red blade” cliff formations and flower-filled meadows, is a great place to see the particular beauty of eastern Italy near the Le Marche-Umbria border. This tour saves you the trouble of navigating unfamiliar trails while taking you on a sunset hiking excursion through the park. After hiking with a guide on an easy to moderately difficult trail for few hours, finish the tour with a dinner of local cuisine at a farmhouse.

Ride through some of the most beautiful and unique hill towns and villages. Visit biking through one of the most beautiful village of Le Marche Region

Monte Sibilla is perhaps the most accessible of the Sibillini Range—a chain of sublime mountains in the Le Marche region’s southwestern flank. Take a guided hike to the mountain’s peak starting at the Rifugio Sibilia hut, using the easy to intermediate route along the Mount Zampa ridge. A guide takes you to the Cave of Sibilia, named after its mythical inhabitant, the Apennine Sibyl.

San Benedetto has some of the most beautiful bike paths in Italy. You can ride for miles while enjoying the palm-lined streets and nearby sandy beaches. Our ride will include a tour of historic San Benedetto, which began as a hillside fishing village. Here we will see the traditional fishermen’s houses and the famous “lu turrio” Tower, a watchtower build to defend the city. During the tour we will enjoy with local seafood and classic regional wines.

Art, countryside and food. The Renaissance city of Urbino, the uncontaminated nature of Montefeltro, its green hills and the organic and zero km products that you can enjoy. It will be a walk on ebike, feasible even for non-professional sportsmen, which will allow you to explore the city of Urbino, a UNESCO World Heritage site and enjoy the breathtaking views of the Marche. Along the way we will stop for a wine tasting in one of the most famous wineries of Bianchello del Metauro and in a Dairy to taste cheeses and ricottas.

Get off the typical tourist trail, and visit a travertine rock quarry, during your stay in scenic Ascoli Piceno. A number of Italy’s famous landmarks are constructed from the stone, and travertine buildings can be seen all over the city center. Begin this morning tour at the Frazione Rosara quarry, where your guide—the quarry owner—will share information about its history. Then, you’ll be given chisels and other tools and can try your hand at sculpting the stone.

Tenuta la Viola is a family-run business located in the fantastic location of Bertinoro, between Forlì and Cesena and close to the Adriatic Sea. We believe that to obtain important and pleasant wines it takes long years of work and waiting. Years during which the professionalism and history of the people who work there contribute in a determined and unique way to the quality and character of the wines obtained. This is why we decided to believe in and make the most of our land through the use of indigenous vines suited to the area, such as Sangiovese and Albana.

Have you ever been to a local market and traditional food shop in Italy, full of ingredients you'd love to experiment with? This is your chance to  visit a market with a local expert, choose your most inspiring ingredients, and create and name your very own two recipes.  Go food shopping with your Cesarina and choose 3-5 staple ingredients that capture your imagination before immersing yourself in a private cooking class at their home. With their expert guidance, you will learn how to prepare your chosen ingredients and make your own two Italian creations. Cultivate your creativity and confidence in the kitchen by adding an Italian flair to your dishes.  Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines. Le Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Hidden between the walls of an ancient cave, there is a place that seems to come out of a fantasy story. It is the Tempietto del Valadier, a neoclassical church built by Pope Leo XII in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of the Gola della Rossa and Frasassi. We will visit a huge system of cavities and ravines that is part of the complex of caves of the Parco Gola della Rossa - Frasassi. The inscription reads Refugium Peccatorum: the place has in fact given refuge to believers fleeing from the world or perhaps from themselves for centuries. Not far from the Valadier temple is another sacred building that shares the walls with the mountain and is precariously perched outside the cave. This is the Madonna Infra Saxa, a hermitage dating back to 1029 where Benedictine nuns lived in seclusion. At the end of the tour we will also visit San Vittore delle Chiuse, one of the four most beautiful Romanesque abbeys of the year 1000 in the Marche region.

It will be a unique experience in the pristine Gola del Furlo - Natural State Reserve of the Marche Region. The tour includes the passage at sites of historical and naturalistic interest, such as the Roman Epoch Gallery opened by the Emperor Vespasian for the complete Via Flaminia that connected the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas. You can taste the unmistakable flavor of the Acqualagna Truffle - International Truffle Capital.

accompanied by a guide Experienced tourist, we will ride around the ancient town its old "rue" and discovering its squares. Small break to taste the products typical of territory, like the famous ones stuffed olives.

Your day in Ascoli Piceno is just winding down, the sun's about to set... It's time for an Aperitivo. This glamorous Italian tradition is loved all over the world, and this is your chance to learn how to prepare it for yourself, the perfect souvenir. Preparing the perfect aperitivo is an art; you will learn how to prepare a selection of five elegant nibbles to pair with a refreshing glass of fizz, ideal for sharing with friends in the early evening. Your aperitivo will be a bite-size representation of its local culture, using typical regional ingredients and local wines, such as a sparkling prosecco or a light red. This experience is held by Cesarine: Italy’s oldest network of 1000+ home cooks all over the country in more than 500 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Become a clay artisan for one day learning from a local friendly craftsman. Learn curiosities about this material, and improve your artistic skills.

You can discover the art of rolling out the pastry just like it used to be. Atelier del Gusto has its roots in time, in fact the relationship between the Gaudenzi family and the art of eating well was born in 1968. Since then, a passion that has always maintained a close link with the values of tradition, which we will pass on to you during this workshop.

Always in my laboratory, young and old, they can try their hand at the art of the lathe and create their work.

The Lame Rosse are one of the hidden treasures of the Marches, it is an experience to do absolutely by all lovers of walking in the mountains. You won't be disappointed.

Breathtaking night on the roof of the Marche! With its 2476 meters of altitude, Monte Vettore is the highest mountain in the Sibillini range. The efforts to reach this exceptional location will undoubtedly be rewarded by the spectacle of the birth of a new day: the unreal silence near the summit is broken only by the sound of the stony ground that almost becomes a melody under the steps, in the distance the sparkling of inhabited centers, and the light that explodes from the Adriatic going to illuminate lands, villages and towns.

The panorama is truly breathtaking: the sea, the sand, the rocks of the Two Sisters broken by the waters and from a distance you can see the Grotta del Mortarolo. Continue walking on the beach to the Church of Santa Maria and then return again inland along another lake: the Deep Lake.

This stretch of coastline offers visitors the best of both worlds: basking at pristine white rock beaches or hiking coastal trails completely immersed in nature. At 572 metres, the mountain provides travellers amazing views of picturesque limestone cliffs that contrast strikingly with the deep blues of the Adriatic Sea. On this eco-friendly walking tour led by a local naturalist you will experience the natural beauty of this stunning area up close, and familiarize yourself with its native species, both plants and wildlife, as well as the unique sites and ancient villages dotting the coastline.

During this personalized tasting tour of one of Italy’s oldest wineries and vineyards—a Le Manche institution established in 1850—you’ll get unparalleled access to the privately owned historic site. After a guided visit to the original wine cellar, where production continues unchanged, prepare to indulge in a luxurious tasting of three native wine selections. Pair your glass with a savory platter of local meats and cheeses.

A perfect afternoon for lovers of the sea and sailing. You can relax enjoying the sunset show with a good wine and fresh fish.