A Week in The Marche, Italy

Peter, Margaret, Di, Mike and Beverly in the main piazza of San Ginesio
with the Collegiata della SS Annunziata behind.

A Week in The Marche

August 2013

We stayed with Di and Mike at their charming Palazzo San Angello, near Tolentino, and deep in the unspoilt countryside of that hidden Region of Italy, The Marche.

The Palazzo at night with the swimming pool

With glorious views towards the Adriatic passed innumerable
medieval hill towns with exotic names such as Urbisiglia and Mogliano. The site of the Battle of Tolentino, 1815, where Joachim Murat, King of Sicily, was defeated by Frederick Bianchi of Austria. 

And  the magic Sibylline Mountains.

The Basilica di San Nicola, Tolentino

The Cloister

The winking fountain

Based on a roundel in the 14th C. fresco in the Cappelonne,
attributed to Giotto's Rimini school.

Detail from the fresco with Saint Nicola of Tolentino

A naive painting of an intercession of Saint Nicola

My favourite policewoman.   

Photographed by de Mare

Painted by van Gogh, in a private
collection

Collegiata della SS Annunziata, San Ginesio

The late Romanesque Church with Gothic facade and terracotta ornamentation.

Frescoes by Lorenzo Salimbeni, 1406

A Unicorn

Note the insects in the flower

 A crane with snake

The frescoes are thought to be influenced by the Knights Templar.

The Sibylline Mountains

Home of the mythical Sibyl of Cumae and a refuge for the Sabine tribe when not being raped by the Romans.

A "Sound of Music" moment.

Bell Flower

Day Lily and Margerite

Mallow

Alpine larkspur

A "Selfie" of the photographer