Maria Cristina Leardini

In Search of the Invisible: 3 Underground Sites Between Romagna and San Marino

Beneath the ground, astonishing structures reveal cellars, warehouses, shelters, and cisterns, and hide secrets shrouded in legend

The Chess Match in Marostica

In even-numbered years, the event that draws thousands of spectators to the Lower Castle Square in September

The Marian Shrine of Scaldaferro in Pozzoleone

Dedicated to Mary, Health of the Sick, it welcomes us with extraordinary mosaics

The Madonnas of Carlo and Vittore Crivelli

A Marche art itinerary in 15th-century sacred art among the hills of Macerata

The Church of Our Lady of Grace in Monte San Martino

Three chapels, a revealed fresco, heavenly music

Arca dell’Arte: the Museum of Rescued Artworks

At the Fortress of Sassocorvaro, the extraordinary story of Operazione Salvataggio, the wartime mission that saved Italian works of art

Piagnano: for those who love peace and undulating views

An unusual destination in the hills of Montefeltro

Festa del Contado: Sassocorvaro returns to the Middle Ages

Ladies, Merchants et Knights in the streets of the village, in the summer evenings

Along the Foglia Valley

Itinerary between history and nature in Montefeltro

The small church of Santa Lucia in Brenta in Cittadella

Humble and small, but frescoed by Jacopo da Ponte!

Auditore: a pearl in the hills of the Marche region

Imposing walls and panoramic views over the Foglia Valley

The Olivastro of Luras: the oldest tree in Italy

In Gallura in the Olive Park lives the Methuselah of Italian trees