Welcome to the new blog from Real Italy. This isn't intended to be a daily diary of our activities. Its purpose is to bring family, friends and guests up to date with news - not just about La Chiesa di Santo Stefano, the lovely Italian villa owned and managed by Real Italy - but also about events in the glorious Le Marche region of Italy.
This area is a wonderful, relatively undiscovered, part of Italy. It has many of the attributes of Tuscany - but without the crowds. If art and architecture are your reasons for going to Tuscany, then Le Marche is full of hidden treasures. Or if it's the glorious scenery of central Italy, you won't be disappointed. Le Marche has a beautiful Adriatic coastline, particularly around the Monte Conero area, and only forty minutes in the other direction is the Sibillini National Park - a superb mountain range full of wild flowers in the spring and summer, and skiing in the winter.
One of the things we like best about the area - particularly the part of the countryside where the villa is situated - is the lack of tourists. It is very unusual to see such a thing as a Tourist Menu outside a restaurant. Indeed, it's difficult to find anybody who speaks English. But they do love the tourists they get, and everybody from shopkeepers to people in the street will give you a smile, and try to help you - mainly by talking to you in very fast Italian. But their sign language is pretty impressive!
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