They call it the "velvet beach" for sand so fine it slides into the sea without a pebble: Senigallia has been a bathing town since the nineteenth century, and the Rotonda a Mare of 1933 — the Art Nouveau pavilion on stilts over the water — is its restored symbol. Pius IX, the last pope-king, was born here in 1792, and the Ercolani porticoes along the river recall the free fair that made the city rich.
Every August the Summer Jamboree turns it into the world capital of 1940s-50s rock'n'roll: vintage, swing dancing, half a million visitors. Some of Italy's most awarded seafood cooking does the rest.
Near Senigallia
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
