"A little less than 10 000 square kilometres of surface, four provinces which contain 246 communes, 500 places, more than 1000 monuments, a hundred towns of art, 246 museums and art galleries, 315 libraries which shelter more than 4 million books, 33 fortifications, 106 castles, 15 fortresses, 170 towers, more than 40 abbeys, thousands of churches, 163 sanctuaries, 34 archaeological sites, 71 historical theatres, the Marche is an area with multi-faceted, sites in which the culture and the landscape has contributed to emphasize a single and extraordinary reality which deserves to be discovered.

The magic of its landscapes has inspired some poets like Leopardi, some travellers like Stendhal and Goethe, Montaigne and Montesquieu, thanks to the alternation of soft hills with perched on bold peaks, mounts of azure on the peak of the Apennines, the rough and rocky gorges, in which sometimes can be found marvellous caves like those of Fracassi; and on the sea, the headlands precipice, the charming creek, the suggestive bays "(cf ENIT, Italian National Institute for Tourism).

What else could be add to that? if it is only that Rossini the composer, native of the Marche, which has stopped to composed his music at the age of 37 years in order to devote the 39 following years to the "good table"! All this to give an idea of the quality of the kitchen of this area of which the musician was native.