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Macerata, Urban Trekking returns on Tuesday 31 October and Wednesday 1 November

The initiative is spread over two days, with two different routes

Macerata, Urban Trekking returns on Tuesday 31 October and Wednesday 1 November.

Urban Trekking returns to Macerata on Tuesday 31 October and Wednesday 1 November, the event now in its 20th edition, organized in collaboration with the Municipality of Siena, with the aim of slowly discovering, enhancing and spreading the green soul of Italian cities.

Among the almost one hundred municipalities that have joined the initiative this year, in fact, there is also Macerata. For the occasion, the Tourism Department created, in synergy with the Macerata by Marche association, two routes that refer to the claim of the 2023 event which reads “Trekking in Color: Sustainability Practices Through the Ages.”

The initiative is spread over two days, with two different routes. The first one October 31st, free, Entitled “The ancient walls, the gates and the main fountain” and the second, the November 1st, for a fee, “Underground Macerata, the 'hidden' sustainability of the city”.

«Urban Trekking represents a tool for enhancing tourism in the city and for this reason we have chosen to also participate in the 20th edition - comments the Tourism councilor Riccardo Sacchi -. The routes we have organized promote our potential and fall within an original dimension that enhances our territory from a historical, artistic and cultural point of view. In the wake of the great success achieved last summer, we propose again Underground Macerata and secret, thus offering the possibility to those who in June did not have the opportunity to participate in the visit due to the high number of requests, the possibility of immersing themselves in this true identity heritage of the city, made up of charm, beauty and also of a hint of mystery with great capacity to generate interest and positive effects on incoming. Urban trekking is one of the many visiting tools available to our citizens but also to potential tourists, to discover the most hidden and original corners of Macerata through a method that favors one of the new frontiers, namely slow tourism".

By participating in the first itinerary we will go to discover the Historic city access gates and more large wash source in the Marche. During the itinerary, in addition to the history of the city walls with its doors, we will talk about the cloisters, courtyards and terraces of the noble and religious palaces, the carriages and accessories handmade with recycled, ecological and completely sustainable material, vintage pharmacies with organic products and so on.

We will start from Porta Picena or Mercato and we will continue to the oldest district of the historic center called la “Cocolla” to get to Porta San Giuliano, dedicated to the Patron Saint of Macerata and then to Major Source, built in 1326, with characteristic niches and arches, which was the most important water reservoir in the city and the largest wash source in the Marche, where participants will be entertained by the Folkloric Group "Li Pistacoppi" which will recall the work of the washerwomen at the public fountain during the 1800s in period costume, with a narrative. The route then plans to reach, after traveling along viale Leopardi, a Porta Romana (“I Cancelli”), an ancient gate demolished in 1857 for the arrival of Pius IX in Macerata, subsequently replaced by a gate from which the current name “I Cancelli” derives. The tour will end at Porta Montana or Convitto, the oldest of the Macerata doors dating back to the year 1367. Restored in 1905, it was decorated with a "Guelph-style" crenellated crown while, originally, this was "Ghibelline-style", i.e. swallow-tailed.

Il 1 Novemberinstead, scheduled “Underground Macerata, the hidden sustainability of the city”.

In light of the great success achieved last June, the tour is being proposed again “Underground Macerata” to discover a part of the city's underground full of caves and artificial tunnels. Most of them were created in the Middle Ages as escape or supply routes during sieges, such as warehouses, cellars or neviere (snow fields) to store food, others served as access to underground wells or anti-aircraft shelters used during the world conflict and suggestive underground passages dedicated today to the knowledge of natural history. Guided tours are planned to some accessible underground areas of the historic center owned by the Municipality of Macerata. The tours will be carried out in collaboration with qualified tourist guides and tour leaders and the experts of the Montelago Speleology Centre.

The planned stages:

  • the adjacent basements of Palazzo Menichelli which in the underground part under the Zara ramp constituted one of the twenty anti-aircraft shelters in the city during the last world war;
  • the imposing basements of the eighteenth-century Palazzo Buonaccorsi in via Don Minzoni, where the glories of the rococo period of the Roman architect Giovanni Battista Contini have been recovered by a skilful restoration which is a prelude to the use of the building as the seat of the Civic Museums;
  • Natural History Museum in via Santa Maria della Porta, where the rich collections of paleontology, mineralogy, entomology, ornithology and malacology are housed in the evocative basements of the sixteenth-century Rossini Lucangeli palace

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