Villa Caprile is a wonderful example of a villa boasting an Italian garden. its construction was started in 1640 by the marquees Giovanni Mosca from Bergamo, the heir of a noble Lombard family that had moved to Marche since the mid XVI century.

Meant to be a summer and partying residence, it was built at the lowest slopes of St. Bartolo hill, on a  property of the marquees’called “Caprile”, not far from the left shore of the Foglia river and close to both Imperiale and Vittoria villas. It hosted very famous and important personalities, including Casanova, Stendhal, Rossini, Leopardi and Napoleon.

It nowadays hosts the Technical-Agricultural “A.Cecchi”high school and has consequently the double function of being a school and a historical-artistic monument.

The main garden, oriented south, consists of three terraces linked by staircases below the level of the villa and dominated by the tall building, which is overlooked, on its turn, by a covered roof-terrace. In the first, typically Italian garden, one finds, with a fountain, flowerbeds and citrus trees; there are still working water games spreading out of hedges, jars and monuments, which were designed to leave open mouthed the visitors with sudden and amusing jets of water. To create them, a wide gallery, which penetrates for almost two kilometers inside the hill, was dug in due time. The second level is occupied by the orchard, rich with fruit trees, recalling the Arab gardens typical of Spanish culture areas. Finally, the third level hosts the viridarium, with such scented essences as rosemary, sage, juniper and thyme.

Remarkable is also the little vegetable theatre, inserted into an arena delimited by cypresses and fully made with living plants, including the stage and the large steps. Here shows were performed by the Arcadia Academy of Pesaro. It currently hosts little and great events.

In the Town Hall gallery of Camerano you can see the collection of the painter Carlo Maratti, born in Camerano, who transported the remains of the Christian martyr “Santa Faustina” from the Roman catacombs to the “Chiesa di San Nicolò di Bari” church in Camerano. San Francesco passed through Camerano and a church here is dedicated to him. The Italian television program “Mistero” also filmed a segment in this church in which they investigated the mysterious remains of a child found under the altar of the church.
A secret underground city under the streets of Camerano is connected by a dense network of tunnels, caves, and carved niches, and decorated with friezes, ornaments and religious symbols. 
Many, dug in sandstone, connected throughout the rock basement of the town centre, with labyrinthine pattern. For a long time it was thought that they were but the remains of ancient sandstone quarries or even wine cellars. However, explorations, interpretations, and the modern walkways, which have made these caves accessible today, have revealed the presence in almost all areas of architectural embellishments, carvings and decorative details that do not fit in quarries or simple storage rooms: domes, barrel vaults, circular rooms and decorative columns, decorated with friezes, ornaments and religious symbols are constants along the entire route.  The caves unravel in front of an often impressed visitor, showing an underground town almost like a charming fairytale, a secret Camerano were both history and legend are real. The most plausible interpretation today is that of a residential, ritual, and the defensive purpose. During the second world war in 1944, the entire underground system was used as an anti-bomb shelter.
Nestled between the hills of the Conero Riviera, Camerano gave birth to “Rosso Conero”, a full-bodied and structured wine made from Montepulciano grapes. Enjoy this magnificent wine in one of the many wine cellars of the city. Every year, during the first week of September, Camerano celebrates the “Festa del Rosso Conero”, a festival dedicated to this wine where you can spend an enjoyable evening tasting local food and wine until late into the night.

The villa of counts Buonaccorsi rises on the top of a hill called “Montesanto”, not far from the historic centre of Potenza Picena. Dating from the XVI century, it was built on the location of a previously existing structure by count Raimondo Buonaccorsi, who made it the country residence of his noble family.

The most peculiar aspect of this villa is certainly he Garden Park, famous in Italy and in the world as a unique example of a perfectly preserved Italian garden. The famous English expert of gardens Georgina Masson, during a visit in the mid XX century, wrote that “the Buonaccorsi Garden is a perfect example of Garden in Marche and, thanks to the loving care of its owners, survived in an excellent condition to show us how the others appeared”

The park faces south-east and declines along the hillside towards the valley of the Asola creek. It is divided into five main terracings which descend down the hill and into two further intermediate levels, all linked by means of a wide central stairway.

Along the terraces there are many pathways delimited by laurel hedges, water basins and flowerbeds in the shape of stars or lozenges, rich with many varieties of carefully looked after flowers.

On the first terracing there are the “secret garden”and the “friar’s cave”. The latter hosts formal flowerbeds with statues representing Harlequin and Pulcinella. The third terracing is characterized by a statue of the goddess Flora placed inside a niche. In the fourth one there are other flowerbeds; around 1860 a terrace was added, adorned with magnificent yew trees; the fourth terracing is marked by long and tall scenery flats of parallel evergreen plants, mostly laurels. Beyond an imposing wall there is also an ample wood, which turns into an English garden with an artificial pond inside.

In the garden, adorned with niches, obelisks and mythological statues produced in Vicenza by the Marinali workshop, there are also fountains, water games (not all of them working), two caves, flowerbeds still keeping the original shape, little citrus trees and centuries-old and rare plants.

The villa raises in the Marina Picena neighborhood, in Porto Sant’Elpidio, close to the sea shore. It is named after its last owners, a family the Municipality, now its owner, bought it from in 1980 to create a public park and botanic garden.

A boulevard flanked by majestic holm oaks leads to the entrance, at the front façade of the building decorated with a little collection of softwood trees which include a Lebanon cedar, Austrian and black pines, red and white firs and, last but not least, the cypresses typical of the local Mediterranean flora.

Remarkable is the presence of other softwood species, such as the tall Canary palm and a thick bush of dwarf palms, the only one that grows spontaneously in the local climate. Almost under the branches of the cedar tree there is a little specimen of cycas, a real living fossil, similar to palms but closer, from an evolutionary point of view, to conifers. The two flowerbeds at the entrance are completed by some bushes of pittosporum, hawthorn, common barberry, spiraea and some little crape myrtle trees, whose carefully cared for log and branches almost look like being sculptured.

The front side of the garden is also enriched by a big, old specimen of plane tree, whose typical bark desquamates by wide layers. Moving north, the flowerbed on the right too shows interesting specimens of plants, such as a sophora pendula, a few “false”cypresses, some old Alep pine trees and a lonely linden.

In the centre of the inner part of the garden, a basin gets covered, at the end of Spring and in Summer,  with the big round leaves of the white and elegant water lily flowers; down at the bottom, a little stairway guarded by a couple of Carrara marble sphinxes introduces to a little Orient-like oasis, decorated with dwarf palm trees and thin bamboos, which precedes a luxuriant park of holm oaks and magnolias; on the top of the hill there are some white-cypresses. Finally, the paths in the wood lead to a middle-ages styled little brick tower.

The complex, also known as “Villa Odoardi Seghetti”, raises close to Castel di Lama upon the hill crest which, in the low Tronto valley, is oriented towards the left bank of the river and the ancient path of the Salaria road.

In the XVIII century, Odoardo Odoardi built the villa, which embodied the remains of the preexisting fortress and at that time did not include a garden. At the end of the following century, Vincenzo Carfratelli Seghetti bought the villa and in the years 1875 to 1890 enlarged it with the garden, which was designed by a specialist renown all around Europe: the great German garden designer Ludwig Winter.

The park witnesses his great love for palm trees. A rare specimen can be admired there of Jubaea spectabilis, along with many Phoenix canariensis and Ph. dactilifera, silver blue Heritea armata, monumental Washingtonia filifera, Chamaerops humilis and groups of Yucca gloriosa and Cordyline australis.

The park is known as the first historical garden in Italy where extended bio-energetic areas were surveyed. The surveying of electro-magnetism lasted two years. While walking inside a pleasant natural frame, and stopping over on calm and peaceful places, one can really feel the beneficial effects produced by the several species of plants living there. Some, such as red beeches and oaks, are typical of the territory. Others, most of all the ones around the pond, come from east: golden Ginkgos biloba, pink Pruns from Japan which blossom the first and announce the arrival of Spring, a light Taxodium disticum and a Sophora Japonica “Pendula”. Into the pond live water lilies and white lotus flowers.

On the rear, in the middle of another pond, raises a delicate XVIII century travertine statue depicting Venus and Eros holding hands. Finally, as in all Winter’s gardens, here too a little corner, the “romitorio”, offering peace and introspection to all visitors, is dedicated to meditation.