Fermo and its surroundings

Fermo is an ancient town, even more so than Rome: the oldest human settlement dates as far back as the 9th century BC.

The Old Town is medieval, with many buildings of the 16th, 17th and 18th century AD: you may picture the village as an architectural cone around the cathedral on top of the hill. Almost all private buildings, as well some of the civic and ecclesiastical ones, were built with the typical pink bricks of this area.

The sea is just six kilometres away from Fermo, with its harbour Porto San Giorgio. The Fermo sea resorts have been awarded, together with many other in the area, the clean sea “Blue Flag” for the last several years including 2019 (https://bit.ly/2R274MH).

Fermo has a university, a musical conservatory, an excellent library, a prestigious art gallery, a number of museums and a large hospital. The 18th century Teatro dell’Aquila is the largest of all Marche.

The surroundings are charming, with hills topped with ancient villages and churches and Middle Age abbeys, stretching all the way to the shore and mirroring on the sea. This area could be best described as a little-known Tuscany because of its beauty, and because of its clean seaside we might define the area of Fermo as a Chianti at Rimini.

The scenic Sibillini Mountains are just 50 km away. Within short-range you’ll find 2500-metre-high mountains and woods, rivers and lakes, hills and fields, sand and pebble shores: a rare mixture of wilderness and refined artistic marvels, unique traits of what is called La Marca Fermana.

The town of Fermo enjoyed also a remarkable economic splendour in recent times, thanks to its renowned footwear makers, of which only the most famous brands such as Tods and Paciotti survive today. The local food is original and tasty.