23 Dec
Treia, Macerata, Marche Italy

Meandering round Le Marche: Tuscany’s interesting neighbour

Le Marche is a province in east-central Italy with wonderful vineyards and golden grain fields in a rolling landscape topped by crumbling castles. Sheep, undulating ridges into the distance, and old men working in the sunshine, an authentic Italy that’s disappearing from other parts of this land. It is what Tuscany must have felt like thirty