Every summer, inside a neoclassical arena built in 1829 for a bracelet-ball game, unfolds one of Italy's most evocative opera seasons: the Sferisterio, with its ninety-metre wall, has acoustics singers bless. It is the symbol of a hilltop university town — the athenaeum dates to 1290 — compact and brick-built, laced with porticoes.
See the Mozzi Borgetti library and Palazzo Buonaccorsi; taste the vincisgrassi, Macerata's rich lasagna. All around roll the most harmonious hills in the Marche, with Recanati and the ruins of Urbisaglia fifteen minutes away.
Near Macerata
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