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Marche Resources | Links, books & addresses
Free brochures
Don't miss the best resource of all - use our simple form to get useful booklets and a great road map absolutely free from the Marche Region Tourism Department.
Answers by E-mail
If you have simple questions about visiting the Marche you can e-mail the Region's information
service at questions@regione.marche.it.
Free phone service
If you're in Italy use the Region's free phone service for any tourist information you need. The number is 800 222 111
and you'll find multilingual operators on hand. Remember, though, that it only works if you're calling from within Italy.
Guides & interpreters
Contacts - including email and website
addresses - for certified tourist guide associations are available on this page of the Marche region's tourism site. Otherwise lists of certified guides and interpreters, as defined by article 53 of the regional law 9/2006, are available by using the following links:
- Province of Ancona
- Province of Ascoli Piceno
- Province of Fermo
- Province of Macerata
- Province of Pesaro & Urbino
Other web sites
Here is a selection of
some of the more useful web sites we've found. We're always looking to expand this section so let us know of any sites you think ought to be listed or if you find any broken links.
- General Italy travel sites
About.Com: Italy for Visitors
Italian State Tourist Board
- Transport information
Ancona Falconara Airport
RyanAir - low cost flights to Italy including Ancona
Easyjet - low cost flights to Italy
Alitalia - English home page
British Airways
Italian State Railways (FS) - good timetable database
- Main local authority official sites
Marche World Wide - the international site in English of the Marche Regional Authority
Regione Marche - Official website of the Marche Regional Authority in Italian
the sites for the five provinces are a good place to start if you're searching for the website of a particular comune, or town:
Province of Pesaro & Urbino
Province of Ancona
Province of Macerata
Province of Fermo
Province of Ascoli Piceno
Marche Impresa - searchable database on manufacturing in the Marche
Gal Piceno - site covering 43 towns in southern Marche
- Weather
Weather & climate website for Le Marche (in Italian but the pictures are easy to understand).
- Food & wine
Italian Cuisine - About.Com's excellent pages include plenty on Marche food & drink + recipes and even chat
Verdicchio - an intelligent site about the Marche's most famous white wine
Marche wines on the web - a good regional site but in Italian only at the moment
- Italian language schools
Centro Culturale Conero - Italian language and culture courses near Monte Conero
Centro Studi Italiani -Italian language and culture courses at Urbania
- Cycling & Golf
Take a look at British cyclist Allan Nelson's site for an entertaining and informative account of a Marche cycling tour
Happybike - mountain bike tours & hire in the northern Marche
Sibillini Cycling - bike tours & hire in the southern Marche
Follow this link to the links at the Conero Golf Club.
- Miscellaneous
Bronzi Dorati - a site about the gilded bronzes of Pergola
Musei Online - Good Marche section of this large Italian museums site
Bill Thayer's Gazetteer of Le Marche - good personal account of travels in the region
Universal Currency Converter - useful money converter
Books
One advantage of the Marche is that they have yet to be discovered by large numbers of
tourists; the corresponding disadvantage is that the range of guide books dedicated to the region is limited.
The first English-language guide dealing solely with Le Marche is the Blue Guide The Marche published in 2006. The AA in the UK now publishes Marche, a translation of the Touring Club of Italy regional guide.
A number of British guide books do, however, give some space to Le Marche, including one co-authored by Peter Greene, the creator of Marche Voyager:
- Central Italy - Trip Planner & Guide by Fiona Duncan & Peter Greene (UK publ. Duncan Petersen; US publ. Passport Books)
- Cadogan guide to Tuscany, Umbria and The Marche
Maps
The best map of the area for motorists and cyclists is the 1:250,000 Touring Club Italiano map
of the Marche which you can get free from the Marche Region.
For walkers and mountain bikers hunt out the three 1:50,000 sheets covering the mountainous zones of the Marche produced by KOMPASS-FLEISCHMANN:
- Sheet 664: Gubbio-Fabriano
- Sheet 665: Assisi- Camerino
- Sheet 666: Monti Sibillini
Italian tourist information offices abroad
The Italian State Tourist Board has branches in most
capital cities offering a wealth of free tourist literature. You'll find their website here. Tell them you want to go to the Marche and complain if they don't flood you with
glossy brochures.
- Amsterdam Stadhouderskade 6, 1054 ES Amsterdam.
- Frankfurt Kaiserstrasse 65, 6000 Frankfurt/Main 1 (also in Dusseldorf and Munchen).
- London 1 Princes Street, London W1R 8AY.
- Madrid Calle de Alcala 63, Madrid 28014 (also in Barcelona).
- Toronto 175 Bloor Street, East Suite 907 - South Tower, Toronto (Ontario) M4W 3R8
- Moscow 101000 - Office 212, Tchistopruonyj Bul. 5/10.
- New York Suite 1565, 630 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10111.
- Chicago 500 North Michigan Avenue Suite 2240, Chicago IL 60611.
- Los Angeles 12400 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 550, Los Angeles, CA 90025.
- Paris 23 rue de la Paix, 75002 Paris.
Tourist information offices in the Marche
For tourist information offices just look for the italic "
i" information symbol. Provincial capitals have offices that carry barrowloads of leaflets on the whole province, other larger towns of interest to tourists will have an information office with street plans, hotel lists, etc., open daily; smaller towns and villages will only have a Pro
Loco with limited opening hours.
The main tourist information offices are:
- Ancona: via Thaon de Revel, 4, 60124 Ancona. tel +39 071 358991 fax +39 071 3589929
e-mail: iat.ancona@regione.marche.it - Ascoli Piceno: Piazza del Popolo, 1, 63100 Ascoli Piceno. tel +39 0736 253045 fax +39 0736 252391
e-mail: iat.ascolipiceno@regione.marche.it - Civitanova Marche: Corso Garibaldi, 7, 62012 Civitanova Marche. tel +39 0733 813967 fax +39 0733 815027
e-mail: iat.civitanova@regione.marche.it - Fabriano: Corso della Repubblica, 70, 60044 Fabriano. tel +39 0732 625067 fax +39 0732 629791
e-mail: iat.fabriano@regione.marche.it - Fano: via C.Battisti, 10, 61032 Fano. tel +39 0721 803534 fax +39 0721 824292
e-mail: iat.fano@regione.marche.it - Fermo: Piazza del Popolo, 5, 63023 Fermo. tel +39 0734 228738 fax +39 0734 228325
e-mail: iat.fermo@regione.marche.it - Gabicce Mare: Viale della Vittoria, 41, 61011 Gabicce Mare. tel +39 0541 954424 fax +39 0541 953500
e-mail: iat.gabicce@regione.marche.it - Loreto: via Solari, 3, 60025 Loreto. tel +39 071 970276 fax +39 071 970020
e-mail: iat.loreto@regione.marche.it - Macerata: Piazza della Libertà, 12, 62100 Macerata. tel +39 0733 234807 fax +39 0733 234487
e-mail: iat.macerata@regione.marche.it - Pesaro: viale Trieste 164, 61100 Pesaro. tel +39 0721 69341 fax +39 0721 30462
e-mail: iat.pesaro@regione.marche.it - San Benedetto del Tronto: viale delle Tamerici, 5, 63039 San Benedetto del Tronto. tel +39 0735 592237 fax +39 0735 582893
e-mail: iat.sanbenedetto@regione.marche.it - Sarnano: Largo Ricciardi, 1, 62028 Sarnano. tel +39 0733 657144 fax +39 0733 657343
e-mail: iat.ancona@regione.marche.it - Senigallia: Piazzale Morandi, 2, 60019 Senigallia. tel +39 071 7922725 fax +39 071 7924930
e-mail: iat.senigallia@regione.marche.it - Urbino: Piazza Duca Federico, 35, 61029 Urbino. tel +39 0722 2613 fax +39 0722 2441
e-mail: iat.urbino@regione.marche.it
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