Rimini is a city located on the Adriatic coast of the Emilia Romagna region in Italy. It is mostly known for its 15 km long sandy beach, which makes it one of the most popular seaside resorts in Europe. Rimini has over 1.000 hotels in order to accommodate the vast crowds of holiday-makers swarming to the city every summer, and thousands of restaurants and bars to feed them and … [Read more...]

Pesaro is the second-most populous city in the region of Marche in Italy after the capital, Ancona. While cycling along the endless sandy beach of the coast of Marche, by afternoon that day, we ended up in the city of Pesaro. Pesaro may be regarded as a special city for cyclists. It has been rewarded with the 'City of Bicycle' title by Legambiente: the most important ecological … [Read more...]

Fano is a city located on the Adriatic coast in the region of Marche in Italy. It is the third-largest by population city in the region after Ancona and Pesaro. Its foundation dates back to an unknown time, the first mention of it occurring in Caesar's time, in 49 BC, as Fanum Fortunae. It later functioned as the capital of the Byzantine Pentapolis including all the major ports … [Read more...]

While on a cycling trip in Italy, one morning, having just approached the Adriatic coast coming from the hinterland of Marche, we happened to be passing through the town of Senigallia. We stopped by the town's fortress for a brief breather and for filling up water from a spring we found there. Since we had arrived in Marche, we'd kept hearing people praising the town of … [Read more...]

It was a tranquil early morning we left the village of Belvedere Ostrense and started cycling towards the Adriatic coast. The first part of the ride was an easy one, letting gravity convey us down the lofty hill on whose top Belvedere Ostrense is situated while enjoying the view of the succeeding, undulating hills expanding to the distance. Then, the second part was a rather … [Read more...]

It was a hot, midsummer morning in Marche, Italy. It was only the previous day we'd arrived in Italy over from Greece, and we had found shelter at a friend's place in Belvedere Ostrense village, some way into the hinterland of Marche. The plan for this first day in Italy was to get to that lofty, seaside mountain located right south of Ancona, known as Monte Conero. As the … [Read more...]

While cycling in Italy, we stayed for two nights at a friends' place in Belvedere Ostrense village in Marche. The second of the nights, our friends suggested we go over the neighboring village of Morro d' Alba where a wine festival was held. Besides drinking wine, I took a just few pictures during that night, which I here post. … [Read more...]

While on a cycling trip starting from Ancona, Italy, the place we happened to spend the first two nights of the trip was the village of Belvedere Ostrense. See here a few pictures I took of this picturesque village and the hilly land surrounding it. … [Read more...]

It was in one barely tolerably hot summer afternoon I was disembarking from that boat and setting foot in the city of Ancona, the capital city of Marche province in central Italy. That was the city where we'd start cycling around the country from. You here see a few pictures I took around this city. … [Read more...]