Casciotta d'Urbino soft cheese of sheep's and cow's milk, delicate flavour
Sheep's and cow's milk, aged twenty to thirty days: casciotta d'Urbino, Michelangelo's favourite cheese, has been DOP since 1996.
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The FM code on Fermo's number plates once belonged to the province of Fiume, and fell vacant when that territory passed outside Italy's borders. It hints at how new this province is: created in 2004, operational from 2009, made by detaching 40 municipalities from the province of Ascoli Piceno. It is also the one province in Marche that touches no other region — the Adriatic to the east, Macerata to the northwest, Ascoli Piceno to the south.
Fermo itself is the largest town, a little over 37,000 people, and sits a few kilometres back from the sea. The seaside towns are Porto Sant'Elpidio and Porto San Giorgio, where the summer crowds go; inland come Sant'Elpidio a Mare, Montegranaro and Montegiorgio, then villages that get steadily smaller — the least populated has fewer than 400 residents.
Towns in the province of Fermo
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40 towns
Altidona Amandola Belmonte Piceno Campofilone Falerone Fermo Capital Francavilla d'Ete Grottazzolina Lapedona Magliano di Tenna Massa Fermana Monsampietro Morico Montappone Monte Giberto Monte Rinaldo Monte San Pietrangeli Monte Urano Monte Vidon Combatte Monte Vidon Corrado Montefalcone Appennino Montefortino Montegiorgio Montegranaro Monteleone di Fermo Montelparo Monterubbiano Montottone Moresco Ortezzano Pedaso Petritoli Ponzano di Fermo Porto San Giorgio Porto Sant'Elpidio Rapagnano Sant'Elpidio a Mare Santa Vittoria in Matenano Servigliano Smerillo Torre San Patrizio
Fermo and around, on the map
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Feast of Saint Crispin
📅 Every year, on 25 October
On 25 October Porto Sant'Elpidio celebrates its patron Saint Crispin of Soissons; the town also preserves Villa Murri.
Feast of Saint Leonard
📅 Every year, on 6 November
On 6 November Monte Rinaldo celebrates its patron Saint Leonard of Noblac; the town hosts the archaeological site of La Cuma and its civic archaeological museum.
Feast of Saint Nicholas of Myra
📅 Every year, on 6 December
The patron of Monte Giberto, Saint Nicholas of Myra, is celebrated on 6 December, though the town's main festivity has become the 8 September feast of the Madonna delle Grazie.
Feast of Saint Victoria
📅 Every year, on 23 December
On 23 December Santa Vittoria in Matenano celebrates its patroness Saint Victoria, whose name became part of the town's own name and to whom a church and a sanctuary are dedicated.