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Le Marche: the new Tuscany has already arrived (and it goes by its own name)
My mother was born in Pesaro, and her mother came from Urbino, as her family had for a thousand generations. I passed my childhood summers within the stone walls of my grandmother’s palazzo and along the same streets where Raphael once walked, among silent portraits of Renaissance ancestors and books on the Duchy of Montefeltro. On Le Marche, I am not objective, and that is precisely why I am writing about the region now: The Aficionados covered it in May, Italia Squisita in April, and Italy’s most reserved region is quietly entering the international circuits of cultured travel. An editorial on the land that does not shout.
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