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A local's guide to Le Marche — the hill towns, the beaches, the mountains, and the places we send our guests when they want to see the real region beyond the villa gates. Here's the thing about Le Marche: most guides to the region are written by travel journalists who visited for three days, stayed in a hotel in Ancona, and wrote about whatever was closest to the tourist trail. We're not writing that guide. We live here. We've been hosting guests at Maniero long enough to know which places...

We planned our own wedding in Tuscany in 2021. Then we walked away. Here's what we learned — and why we ended up building Maniero in Le Marche instead. We want to start with a confession: we used to dream of getting married in Tuscany. Like every couple who's ever scrolled through wedding Pinterest at 1am, we had the cypress-tree fantasy, the rolling-hills fantasy, the long-table-under-the-pergola fantasy. In 2021, when we got engaged, Tuscany was the only region we even considered. We...

So you're thinking about getting married in Italy. Maybe you've been scrolling through Tuscany venues for months and the prices made you choke on your espresso. Or maybe someone mentioned Le Marche and you thought — where? Good. That's exactly how we want it. Le Marche is Italy's best-kept secret, and honestly, we'd like to keep it that way. But if you're seriously considering a destination wedding here, let us walk you through what the process actually looks like. Not the glossy brochure...